Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Devadatta’s Poems (Giramondo Publishing) which was short-listed for the NSW and Queensland Premiers’ prizes and the Prime Minister’s Poetry Award, and Hook and Eye: A selection of poems published in the US in 2014. She teaches poetry at postgraduate level at The University of Sydney.
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Alex Skovron: A Sweeping Range: Towards the Equator
Skovron’s work falls across a number of complex cultural modes. While he has many important things to say about the migrant experience, he also has much to say about more general issues relating to human ontology, as well as to his experience of living in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Imaginative Expansions
Beveridge’s fascination with the tactility and suggestiveness of names is really only a part of her interest in the sounds of the language themselves. It’s something we expect from lyric (or lyrical) poets but it isn’t always as overt and developed as it is in Beveridge’s poems.
A Test of Arms: Devadatta’s Poems by Judith Beveridge
Devadatta’s Poems is written from the perspective of Devadatta, a lesser known figure in Buddhism, who seeks to displace Siddhattha without success. Beveridge takes him from the margins, placing him at the centre of her volume. Moreover, she gives him possession in the title: the collection is his.