Paul Dawson

Imagining Winter Paul Dawson 1st edition

Winner, Best Poetry, IP Picks 2006. The poems in Imagining Winter investigate contemporary urban existence, including the politics of national identity and the culture of inner city life in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each of the three sections considers a different perspective of metropolitan landscapes and relationships. Poems within the first section, Explorations, manifest a reflexive awareness of the genre or of the process of writing itself: poems animated by an interest in form as much as subject. The second section, Assertions, includes declarative poems which deliver a political point or social commentary. Poems in the third section, Preoccupations, mirror more personal emotions, and ponder the nature of human relations. This book will appeal to readers of both traditional and contemporary poetry, ranging in form and subject matter from the conventional to the innovative. An important addition to any school or library collection.