{"product_id":"holly-isemonger-greatest-hit","title":"Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommended in the 2023 5Islands Poetry Prize for a First Book of Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her long-awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal. If they are ‘experimental’, then they are experiments from the heart. Isemonger’s work is irreverent, never boring, always buffered by exquisite sensibility, style and form. \u003cem\u003eGreatest Hit\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning and highly anticipated debut by the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The poems in \u003cem\u003eGreatest Hit\u003c\/em\u003e spool off the page like feisty, filmic reels, assembling myriad recombinant epiphanies. Holly Isemonger’s poetic is irreverent, inventive and ingenious, yet offset by the necessity of resilience (weighted by blankets and Tom Waits). These are poems of the South Coast surf, a regional psychogeography disrupting (often antipodean) cliches of teen cinema, soap operas and reality TV, using visceral and visual defamiliarization. The fractured female gaze produces a kaleidoscope of aesthetic and affect, mixing the erotic with the melancholic. Isemonger is a poet-philosopher-cum-cinematographer, worthy of cult status, a feminist auteur of the Australian nouvelle vague.' Keri Glastonbury\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Many of us have been waiting some time – too long – for Holly Isemonger’s debut collection of poetry. It was worth it. \u003cem\u003eGreatest Hit\u003c\/em\u003e takes the lessons of the modernists and puts real human flesh on those often cold bones. Behind the often ingenious formal experimentation is a sense of play and exploration which uncovers matters alternately grave and comic, sometimes at once. As good as these poems are, there is more at stake in Isemonger’s work than a teasing out of the possibilities of language; these are poems about sense and nonsense, of falling apart and holding it together, of giving up and living on – in short, about what it means, or might mean, to be a human being. What more could one ask for?' Chris Fleming\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Holly Isemonger is a poet, critic and editor from Gerringong, NSW. She was the joint winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCordite, Overland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWesterly\u003c\/em\u003e and she is the author of the chapbooks \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHip Shifts\u003c\/em\u003e (If A Leaf Falls Press) and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeluxe Paperweight\u003c\/em\u003e (Stale Objects dePress). She can be found at @Hisemonger on Twitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Holly Isemonger, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGreatest Hit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023. 148mm x 210mm. 80pp. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-55-0\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease: February 2023\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\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42830566359197,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Isemongercover.png?v=1670207870","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/fr\/products\/holly-isemonger-greatest-hit","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}