Some Dualities

Name: Some Dualities
Price: 22.0000 USD
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ISBN: 978-988-8833-93-1

Recent Poems

Michael Witts

English , 2024/11 Proverse Hong Kong

Tags: Poetry

216 x 139 mm , 99pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-988-8833-93-1

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Some Dualities is a collection of most of the poems written by Australian poet Michael Witts in the last fifteen years. The poems are assembled by theme and style, celebrating the poet’s own life lived through his experiences of fatherhood, family, location and country.

Past and present intersect in this diverse body of works where Witts is able to traverse complex emotional landscapes. He writes succinctly using conversational, unadorned language, creating accessibility across a broad range of subjects.

Using an idiosyncratic voice that is either specific to time and place or musing, the poet invites the reader to contemplate life’s inherent dualities. He pays homage to poets he loves and is inspired by, thereby celebrating their work alongside his own.

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“What a privilege and joy to read these superbly crafted poems. In a clear measured uncompromising voice Some Dualities examines childhood and parenthood, innocence and wisdom, memory and forgetting, past and present; distilling them into illuminating pinpoints that map out a life which speaks to our common humanity.”

–MARELE DAY, author of Lambs of God

Master of the dramatic opening and the wistful ending, Michael Witts flexes craft to excavate “secrets as subtle as the mason’s handshake” in his stirring and delicately balanced fifth poetry collection, Some Dualities. Witts is unflinching in his visceral questioning—of Australia’s troubled settler history, the plight of refugees, war, human-induced ecological harms, the carnage of roadkill and the uneasy economy of animal farming. Unwavering in his celebration of his great loves—family, poetic heroes, nature, and his pursuit of truth, Witts also plumbs wisdom from his losses. Some Dualities underscores Witts’ exceptional skill in portraiture and dramatic imagery—whether sketching one of his cherished children, a long-lost uncle, a “second cousin once removed” who “squandered her virginity on a scoundrel”, a friend’s hound, or a fallen cockatoo. In Some Dualities, Michael Witts delivers a generous, open-hearted hymn to the subtle art of living with one eye ever elevated to divine grace in the everyday.

–ANNE CASEY, Winner Of The Proverse Poetry Prize 2020

Michael Witts was born a twin in Cardiff, Wales, migrating to Australia when he was five. Some Dualities is his fifth collection of poetry to be published in the fifty years he has been writing and the first to be published internationally.