Fire Diary

by Mark Tredinnick

Genres: Poetry

105 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Mark Tredinnick (born 1962) is a celebrated Australian poet, essayist and teacher. Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2012. He is the author of thirteen books, including four volumes of poetry (Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Lyrebird, The Road South); The Blue Plateau; The Little Red Writing Book and "Writing Well: the Essential Guide." For twenty years he has taught poetry, grammar, creative nonfiction and business prose in Sydney and around the world.

Reviews

[Darby Hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite is quite short

WHAT I FEAR

1.
Is that I'll die with the world altered

on my bedside table and you

a mystery beside me in my baed

and my own intended life an item too far down the list

ever to have got done.


2.

But today I wake at the moment of dawn and hear the world

catch her breath and see the crimson sun

undone in the yawning elm,

and I feel my child's sleeping breath,

and I stop

[Blue Mountains Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m trying to embrace more poetry, and this book was recommended by one of our Library customers. I enjoyed the gentle tone and thoughtful pace of the poems, and found most of them very accessible.

A.D