Argosy

by Bella Li

Argosy is Australian poet Bella Li's first collection. This innovative full-length collection, drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and originality, as well as the relationship between poetry and other disciplines: the visual arts, history, literature and film. Polyglot in its sensibility and content, and daring in its construction, Argosy is a book that defies categorisation. Grounded firmly in Australian contemporary poetic practice, the book is also outward-looking in its approach to form and content; it constitutes a landmark in both local and international poetics.

Genres: Poetry

180 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2017

About the author

Bella Li is the author of Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017), which was commended in the 2017 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, highly commended in the 2017 Anne Elder Award, and won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the 2018 Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her work has been published in a range of journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems and The Kenyon Review, and displayed at the George Paton Gallery and in the Triennial of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Reviews

[Tonymess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interview with the poet, artist at my blog - a sumptuous presentation of a book. Unsettling & provoking
https://messybooker.wordpress.com/201...

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finished: 09.11.2020
Genre: poetry, collages
Rating: A
#AusReadingMonth2020
Conclusion:

This book is for the real poetry 'die-hards'.
It is not an easy nut to crack....but does
reveal the poetic skills of Bella Li.

My Thoughts

[Susie Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

just exquisite

[Arlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved even more on second read

[Jo-Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeousness.