Stuart Cooke, Corrosions and several books of translation

and several books of translation and criticism in Japanese

Nikola Madzirov’s poems are homes

“I am certain that in reading the enthralling poems of Carlomar

my students’ families died

many of the poems deal with art

Stuart Cooke, Corrosions and several books of translationCorrosions is a prequel to Stuarts first full length collection, Edge Music (IP, 2011). A collection of corroded points or beginnings, it is about some of the paths taken by a young poet as he struggles to understand the relationship between language, landscape and history in contemporary Australia, and how to locate his own body in the midst of it all. Far ranging, he can return his poems to the immediate context of Australian voice and manner a