{"product_id":"peter-ramm-waterlines-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Peter Ramm, waterlines (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWaterlines\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like a first collection. Which is not to say it isn’t fresh or exciting. Rather, that this is a poet at the height of their powers ... People who adore the great Australian poets Judith Beveridge or Gwen Harwood will love this collection.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Broede Carmody, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/culture\/books\/poems-that-make-you-think-about-today-s-world-and-tomorrow-s-bequest-20220603-p5aqzj.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSydney Morning Herald\/The Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe rainforest, winter blows past, my son.\u003cbr\u003eDark air, under the canopy, his big dark eyes— \u003cbr\u003eNew and touching everything.  \u003cbr\u003e            Red Cedar, behemoth, \u003cbr\u003eBlots out the sky and you dart over the boardwalks\u003cbr\u003eGumboots clapping rubato. Today, I write to you\u003cbr\u003eIn this place\u003cbr\u003e    —this piece of an old world—this story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWaterlines is a collection that inhabits the landscapes of Southern NSW, contemplating the complexities of fathering and older questions of being in ecological, political, and social settings of contemporary Australia. The collection explores the way water serves as a repository of human existence in myth and lore, and by extension to our own individual histories. Here the poems trace the geometries of interiority and place through their themes of loss, parenting, the wisdom of the natural world, and the haunting reality of the transience of life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection attempts, as Rilke suggests, to approach nature, ‘To try, like the first human being, to say what we see and experience and love and lose.’  In many forms, the lyric poems of sestets, haiku, sijo, couplets, and cantos, set out to reframe the traditional pastoral. Peter Ramm’s first collection is simultaneously an exploration of inheritance, of being, and transmission; a clear-eyed interrogation of our ecological irresponsibility and what we leave the next generation; and finally, a lovesong for the landscapes and life of southeastern New South Wales.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever love is for, poetry does that: Peter Ramm’s book is an instance. The collection Peter has crafted is shapely and wise and beautiful.—Mark Tredinnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThese are timeless poems – long linocuts and etchings of nature and place.  Ramm lays down his lines like a painter, creating sketches of family and vignettes of life.  Each poem is a beachcomber walking with wonder along the waterlines of a perfect beach. \u2028—Damen O'Brien\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Ramm is a poet and teacher who writes on the Gundungarra lands of the NSW Southern Highlands. He has won the South Coast Writer’s Centre Poetry Award and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, and has shortlisted for the Bridport, ACU, Blake, and Newcastle Poetry Prizes. Peter has recently published poems with C\u003cem\u003eordite, Westerly, Plumwood Mountain, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Eureka Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. He finds inspiration in the landscape and people of Southeastern NSW.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Ramm,\u003cem\u003e waterlines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 112pp. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-44-4\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: June 2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42572587171997,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Rammcover_b6cd5a38-5197-4f2f-9a55-a4674cf16379.png?v=1657334141","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/peter-ramm-waterlines-limited-edition-hardback","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}