Stuart Cooke, Corrosions my students’ families died

my students’ families died

and several books of translation and criticism in Japanese

Nikola Madzirov’s poems are homes

there were two others and in 1994

Stuart Cooke, Corrosions my students’ families diedCorrosions is a prequel to Stuarts first full length collection, Edge Music (IP, 2011). A collection of corroded points or beginnings, it is about some of the paths taken by a young poet as he struggles to understand the relationship between language, landscape and history in contemporary Australia, and how to locate his own body in the midst of it all. Far ranging, he can return his poems to the immediate context of Australian voice and manner a