A tragic television star, the brain of a genius, and a prize-winning pig – 3 new books are brilliant examples of contemporary Australian poetry
- Written by: Sam Ryan, PhD Candidate, Literary Studies, University of Tasmania
The Poor Poet – Carl Spitzweg (1839)Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAll art comes from some abstraction of reality. What is written on the page or painted on the canvas is the artist’s representation of something real. Through that representation, the real becomes abstracted and is transformed into art.
There are different degrees...