{"product_id":"kate-lilley-tilt","title":"Kate Lilley, Tilt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2019)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbo’s Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of deracinated subjects. In its detours through the \u003cem\u003ecopia\u003c\/em\u003e of material history, lived experience and the archive of poetic forms, the book itself becomes a teeming repository of the real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Lilley\u003c\/strong\u003e has published two books of poetry, \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt 2002, winner of the Grace Levin Prize) and \u003cem\u003eLadylike \u003c\/em\u003e(UWAP 2012), two Vagabond chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eRound Vienna\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRealia\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the editor of \u003cem\u003eMargaret Cavendish: Blazing World and other writings\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin Classics) and \u003cem\u003eDorothy Hewett: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP). She is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Sydney where she directs the Creative Writing program. Kate is a widely published scholar of queer, feminist textual history and theory from 17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century women’s writing to contemporary poetry and poetics. She is also the poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e. Follow her work at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sydney.academia.edu\/KateLilley\"\u003ehttps:\/\/sydney.academia.edu\/KateLilley\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e is Kate Lilley’s third full-length collection. Both of her previous books were shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize and received multiple citations in the Book of the Year lists in the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\/Age\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Her edition of Dorothy Hewett’s \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Awards and also cited as a Book of the Year in the SMH\/Age. Major invited readings include the University of Chicago, Indiana University, the Holloway Reading at the University of California at Berkeley, the Fannie Hurst Reading at Brandeis University, Cambridge University Poetry Festival, Adelaide Festival Writers Week, Perth Festival and Sydney Writers Festival. She publishes poetry regularly in major national and international journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Australian poetry won't be the same after \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e', Stuart Cooke, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Intelligent, graceful, sceptical, endlessly resonant, Lilley’s poetry gives us a passionately exact language, which opens up the complexities of the inexact; in particular, the complexities of desire and love.' Alison Croggan, \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Unlike her earlier book, the superb \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e uses no traditional verse forms. But Lilley's poems are always concise with wit and meaning, and the same bold, singed humour remains with endless thought clutching each taut line...With its sophisticated observations and gleaming learning and design, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e is a searingly intelligent book that rewards many readings.' Gig Ryan, \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Kate Lilley’s poems...display a refinement of camp definable as the application of precise moral and aesthetic discrimination to and through the products of commercial culture, in a way Augustan in its severity and precision….brilliant.'\u003cbr\u003e John Wilkinson, \u003cem\u003eJacket\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'There's a langorous resourcefulness to these poems - as if their parts could just fall apart, but they don't.' Michael Farrell, \u003cem\u003eJacket2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The poems are exquisite and compelling.' Pam Brown, \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Compulsively readable', John Tranter [blurb endorsement of \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Lilley, \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2018. 148mm x 210mm. 90pp. \u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-87-9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/jeqk\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400195524,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Lilley_cover.jpg?v=1548988937","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/kate-lilley-tilt","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}