Untimely Meditations

Ken Bolton

PB 168 PP 210 x 140 1862544328 $16.95 Poetry APN 9781862544321 Wakefield Press

Here are poems that mock lectures, poems that explicate and misunderstand other poems, the poem as catalogue essay, the poem of curious, favourite lines – and of lines spun from them, and the poem as letter . . . the collaged poem, of restlessness, disquiet and rancorous beauty. And more.

‘Ken bolton’s first book since Selected Poems: often “impersonal”, always “pointy”, the poems are variously full of ideas, formally or rhetorically unusual, or driven by a wish to situate themselves, here, shamelessly, on the divide of some perceived problematic, or to lie suspiciously there instead – slyly, shaggily, doggo – only to be suddenly up and conceptually “running, ducking, weaving”.’ – Mary Christie

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‘Definitely wiseacre, and not good form, lairily mannerist while declaring its ho-hum concerns, “Lecture: Untimely Meditations” managed to light up blunt thematic cudgels dulled by recent use.’ – Ross Gibson, UTS Review

‘Wordplay both deft and (deliberately) daft . . . marrying the many disparate pleasures and eclectic intellectual traditions that meld art criticism, philosophy, daily existence, “hip” culture and the matter of fact.’ – Gregory O’Brien, Evening Post (NZ)