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Workshopping the Heart

Workshopping the Heart

New and selected poems

Jeri Kroll

This witty, moving and accessible collection gathers poems from six previous books, beginning with Death as Mr Right, which won second prize in the 1982 Anne Elder Award for best first poetry book in Australia. With irony and frankness, Jeri Kroll workshops the complex relationships that individuals establish over the course of a lifetime with friends and family, as well as with the physical and social environments that shape them. In particular, she tackles the significance of parenthood, gender and ageing.

The collection contains a substantial amount of new work, including extracts from Kroll's verse novel, Vanishing Point, which has been adapted for the stage in the United States and has been short-listed for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards.

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Jeri Kroll has published over twenty books for adults and young people, including poetry, picture books and novels. Her most recent are a chapbook of children’s poems, Swamp Soup (Picaro Press, 2012), and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Graeme Harper. A staged reading of Vanishing Point (verse novel) was held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ‘Page to Stage’ Festival (2011) in Washington, DC, and the book was published by Puncher and Wattman in 2014. Jeri Kroll is Professor of English and Creative Writing and Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

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PAGE COUNT   222
DIMENSIONS   210 x 140 mm