New from PARADOX POETRY
And trees are trees
by Eden Liddelow
Distributed by Acland Press

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ISBN 780958 557634, pb, April 2008, 66 pp
 

‘When a man has studied little and knows nothing, mountains are mountains, rivers rivers, and trees trees. When he has studied more and knows something, mountains are no longer mountains, rivers rivers, or trees trees. But when he has completed his study and knows all, mountains are once again mountains, rivers rivers, and trees are trees.’  - Zen proverb

Eden Liddelow is a widely-published writer of fiction, essays, criticism, translation and journalism. Her poems have been published by Meanjin, The Age, The Australian, Tirra Lirra, Blue Dog, Cadenza and the Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, and shortlisted for a number of awards including the Fellowship of Australian Writers Awards and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. These poems, whose subject is at times the experience of war and migration in the Australian region, at other times the universal themes of illness, death and religion, find enjoyment too in the ironies and absurdities of post-modern suburban living.

Praise for her last book was After Electra: rage, grief and hope in twentieth-century fiction (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002).

‘Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain’ – Dr Jennifer Rutherford, Australian Book Review
‘Engaging and innovative analysis’ – Dr Tessa Hockley, Australian Literary Studies
‘Thank you for writing about my work so rigorously, so vigorously and
so beautifully’ – novelist Helen Garner