Luke Icarus Simon’s compelling and groundbreaking work was first published in the 1980s and he has since become one of the quiet success stories of Australian literature. This collection explores the human condition, how we relate to family and partners, and how our identities are shaped by the shifting currents of love, friendship and illness. Simon’s aim is to understand why we are all here, and he masterfully navigates and negotiates the realities of our existential loneliness.
Swimming in words brings together seventy of Simon’s poems, some of them already published, many revised for this collection, as well as completely new works such as the prose poem of the same name, which is over 4,000 words long.
Swimming in Words: New and Selected Poems by Luke Icarus Simon
Publisher: Stirling Publishing Australia
Price: $34.95 HB; $24.95 PB
ISBN: 9780994518286 HB; 9780994518262 PB
Distribution partner: IngramSpark
Email: [email protected]
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