An Absence of Saints
by Rosanna Licari

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Overview

At the heart of this exciting debut collection is the impulse to explore: family history in Europe, migration to Australia, the contours of memory and desire. Exquisite lyrics and deft narrative illuminate history’s mosaics and brilliant shards of lost time. The poems are divided into three sections, delineating the thematic preoccupations'with the acquisition and processing of experience, family history and childhood. Licari's diverse poetic encompasses lyrical and narrative poems, at times dramatically fusing the two modes.

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Louis Armand

author of The Combinations

‘A poetry of evocation – of time, distance and intimacy – where actions are refracted through objects and emotions coalesce in the lacunae of the commonplace.’

The Canberra Times

‘A distinctively personal and often moving first collection.’

Martin Duwell

author of A Possible Contemporary Poetry

‘Licari has a magical ability to respond to – and then express – the essential strangeness, not only of objects and places but of our experience of life itself.’

Rosanna Licari

Rosanna Licari founded the eZine Stylus. She was co-director of the Queensland Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2003. As a manuscript, An Absence of Saints won the 2009 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She lives in Annerley, Brisbane.