Prickly Moses: Poems

By Simon West

An uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West's poetry for nearly twenty year. In this new collection, the Australian poet and Italianist delights in the transforming and endlessly varied powers of naming and speaking. West's intensely regional focus stands in diaglogue with Europe and antiquity. Landscapes reveal the tangle of their historical dimensions, as the rivers of both the Goulburn Valley in southeastern Australia and the Po Valley in northern Italy merge and flow into the wider currents of the Southern Ocean. Again and again, language and the senses throw themselves into the nameless riot of the world, from eucalypts and clouds to a medieval bell tower and the sounds a pencil makes as it crosses a page.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691250596
• ISBN13: 9780691250595
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"