Salute

By: Ken Bolton

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Paperback | 1 October 2019

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144 Pages

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21 x 14.9 x 1.3

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Gee these poems be limber, you think, flipping thru the pages, admiring, here, the cut of this poem's jib, there the poise & rancour of another.

For this is a book that might save your heart, a book to pull from your jacket pocket at some moment of last judgement & wave at the gate keeper, a tall and bearded dude, surely a hipster — avant la lettre but also after it — outside of time in fact, where final judgements are, and truth and poetry.

You wave it at him. It's a talisman, dude, you say. 'An earnest,' says the figure, 'of your capacity for cool and rigour?' He nods and you smile. You both smile — and he waves you in.

About the Author

Ken Bolton is an Australian poet. Bolton was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four Poems, was published in 1977.

Industry Reviews

Praise for Ken Bolton:

'...bitchy, dreamy, acute...a deeply serious — & witty & almost self-canceling — consciousness at work'
Lyn McCredden, Heat

'Easy to appreciate, lightheartedness is not a natural or easy gift, and Bolton's — brilliantly articulate — shimmers with a sense of being 'amusing & sort of/ Crooked in relation to things'
Nicholas Birns, Transnational Literature

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