Lyre

by Stuart Cooke

Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life—animal, plant and otherwise—have their own modes of expression, each of which can each be translated into a different kind of poetry. Ranging across Australasian oceans, coastlines, rainforests, savannahs and deserts, and similarly wide-ranging in its approach to form and lineation, Lyre asks what happens when poems make contact with non-human worlds; in so doing, it welcomes whole new worlds to poetry.

Genres: Poetry

272 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2019

Reviews

[Kim]

This had what looked like a publishing error at the end of every line. Ruined what is otherwise an interesting premise of a poem devoted to an Australian animal. I may go back to it but had to give it a miss for now.

[Georgia Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful study of Australian natural landscape and history, through a kind of poetic style I've never seen before.