Listening for “The Silence of the Night”: Reading Kevin Hart’s “The Voice of Brisbane”

Brown, Lachlan

doi:10.1163/156852912x651063

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“…As I have noted elsewhere, 'Many of [Hart's] poems seemed compelled to return again and again to Brisbane's tropical heat and humidity, its sensual fecundity, those combinations of movement and stillness, noise and silence that seem to define the city on the river' ( [18], p. 359). In 'Night Music' the poet takes us outward from a particular place along the Brisbane River, often swinging between the proximate and the distant.…”

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‘The Way of Our Streets’: Exploring the Urban Sacred in Three Australian Poems

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2016

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This article examines three contemporary Australian poems that concern themselves with matters of the sacred within the modern Australian city. Noting that Australian poetry and the sacred have often been studied in terms of the landscape, the article approaches these poems as part of an undercurrent of spiritual or sacred writing that takes up urban Australian spaces as important and resonant sites. Through readings of Kevin Hart's 'Night Music' (2008), Jill Jones's 'Where We Live ' (2007) and Benjamin Frater's 'Ourizen' (2011), the article demonstrates the various ways that contemporary Australian spirituality is poetically expressed in cities such as Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.

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