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Infernal Topographies by Graeme Miles (University of Western Australia Press)

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Infernal Topographies

The infernal topographies of the title are more psychological than geographical, though physical travel and the infusing of the past into the present are also at issue. Driven in part by the anxieties of time and mortality that have always been at the root of lyric, these poems are also shaped by the pressure of the likely collapse of the current social order, and by impending and current extinctions. Weaving the domestic, the oneiric and the outside worlds, these are poems that try to find a place from which to speak and think when so much seems to be ending.

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About the author

Graeme Miles’ poetry has been widely published in Australian literary journals and anthologies. Infernal Topographies (UWAP 2020) is his third collection of poetry. Miles has published two previous collections of poems: Recurrence (John Leonard Press, 2012) and Phosphorescence (Fremantle Press, 2006). He has lived in Hobart since 2008 and teaches ancient languages and literatures (especially Greek) at the University of Tasmania.