Cath Kenneally

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Biographical note:  Cath Kenneally lives in Adelaide, South Australia, and makes radio programs on Australian arts and literature. Her collections to date include Harmers Haven (1996) and Around Here (1999). Her first novel, Room Temperature, appeared 2000. She has won a Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, Adelaide Festival of Arts 1998, and John Bray National Poetry Prize for Around Here, Adelaide Festival 2002. All Day All Night has been shortlisted for Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. She has three children.

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EAN13:  9781876857097
ISBN-10:  1876857099
ISBN-13:  9781876857097
Author:  Cath Kenneally
Title:  All Day, All Night
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  01-Jul-03
Extent:  112pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  7 mm
Weight:  168 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 9.99
Price:  USD 15.95
Rights:  World

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Table of contents:
Sister Wendy
Poem for Linda
Dare to Swim
The Visitation
IC
Be Where, Now?
Eureka
‘Be Cheerful, Richmond’
Little Corporal
O Lucky Man
Beach Dream
Fair Cop
Six Years Gone
An Irish Reel
Whubarb, Whubarb
Olwyn’s Place
Si Peu
Millennial Two-Step
Globetrot
Round One
Buongiorno
Hard Word
The Way Across
Black Rock
Little Palindrome
A Green Pen
Being Away
Caro Diario
icons
All Four Feet
Hello, Sailor
Hot Bitumen
Wellington Wahine
Base Clay
All Day, All Night
Big Kids
View from the Pier
Which Haze?
Way off among the cars …
Sense and Sensibility
Victoria’s Secret
The Walk
Local History
King of Sturt Creek
Ki Ki
For John Forbes1950-1998
morning poem
Trip
Harmers Haven

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Little Corporal

video tea-break
freeze-frame
Prime Suspect 4
behind the great
pinched little face
of Helen Mirren
who frowns
in concentration
a WPO in grey
T-shirt, butch,
beautiful, chopped
grey hair, determined
jaw, striding between
the male coppers
all looking elsewhere
she never appears
again
Helen has slipped
one hand inside
the top flap
of her shirt
Napoleon-style
for some reason
a terribly
affecting gesture

Review quote:  This book has great human warmth. Kenneally confronts many of them here and does so with irony and toughness. Around Here is an uncluttered and powerful work. It shows a high level of control over form. The poems are presented in a straightforward, deliberately unmetaphoric way, though Kenneally remains sensitive to the subtleties of voice and image. These are insightful, witty and precise poems from an accomplished writer. In many ways Kenneally’s voice is unique.

Steve Evans, Lee Cataldi, Stephen Lawrence
John Bray National Award for Poetry

Review quote:   I don’t know how John Kinsella’s Salt Publishing does it but he has done it again. Cath Kenneally’s All Day, All Night is another beautifully produced book of poetry.

Peter Goldsworthy
The Adeliaide Review