{"product_id":"peter-skrzynecki-red-trees","title":"Peter Skrzynecki, Red Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Trees are autumn trees. Red: symbolic of blood, fire, passionate emotions. The title poem is a paean to the lives of a New England family in north-western New South Wales Skrzynecki lived with forty years ago in a small district called Jeogla near Armidale. Other poems are elegies,  examinations of migrant lives lived and still living, childhood friends, parents. Jervis Bay, Parkes, the Indian Ocean, suburban Sydney feature strongly as locations. We leave these places physically but they never leave us.  Like Aeneas, we carry our household gods with us, intentionally or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“His poems are filled with brilliant and unusual imagery of the Australian landscape. He shows splendid technical ability, a power of restraint and, above all, that overtone of mingled sadness and joy, completely unanalysable, which is pure poetry.\"  Kenneth Slessor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Skrzynecki is an adjunct associate professor at the University of\u2028Western Sydney where he taught for seventeen years. He is the author of\u2028nineteen books of poetry and prose. \u003cem\u003eRed\u2028Trees\u003c\/em\u003e is his most recent book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare Object Number 53.\u003cbr\u003e 16 pages. Published 2010.\u003cbr\u003e Cover image by Kay Orchison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":241002123,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/skrzynecki.jpg?v=1347966252","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/fr\/products\/peter-skrzynecki-red-trees","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}