This book tells of the voyage of the Mignonette in 1884, bound from England for Australia. After it foundered in the South Seas, the starving survivors murdered and ate the cabin boy. After being rescued, the survivors were tried in England.
With a hovering intelligence and a laudable lack of ego, the beautifully controlled poems of 'Some Sketchy Notes on Matter' investigate the world with an ecstatic's eye.
"With this fine collection Gardner's work achieves what one poem describes as 'beauty itself / taut against the half-life rendering.' Human experience is the shadow cast by these poems, and not the other way around." (G. C. Waldrep)
Explores ideas of belonging and displacement. This work weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. It shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both sacred and profane.
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