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PROSE POETRY
This collection of prose poetry will surprise, astound, delight, tell a story, and provide you with an effortless read. Along with images, the poetry is created so that you can enjoy little blocks of prose that act like word pictures. The objects / subjects in the poetry are given a narrative voice rather than written from a personal perspective. Moreover, this collection is subversive, adroit, deceptively plain speaking, unpremeditated, and packaged in prose that stands alone in a crazy logic of its own.
Helen Hagemann
In 2004 Helen Hagemann received a poetry mentorship award from the Australian Society of Authors studying with Jean Kent, a NSW poet. In 2008, she won a Macquarie/Varuna Longlines Poetry scholarship resulting in the publication of a chapbook Evangelyne & Other Poems published by the Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne (2009). Her second collection of Arc & Shadow was published by Sunline Press, Cottesloe, WA (2013). Helen holds a Masters in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has taught prose and poetry in Fremantle in association with the OOTA Writers Inc., and has been accepted into writing residencies throughout the world. The Last Asbestos Town, a debut novel, is now published as a 2nd Edition through the imprint Oz.one Publishing.
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Bounty - Helen Hagemann
BOUNTY
Helen Hagemann
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Bounty
Helen Hagemann
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Bounty
Monarchs
Bee Season
Caterpillar
Water-bird
Bottlebrush
Music
Cushions
Cups
Op-Shop
Rugs
Canvas
Night Pareidolia
Lamp
50s Cars
Jukebox
Art
Gambler
Old Churches
Weatherboards
Stairs
Camping
Trails
Pinnacles
Ferry
Vase
Fountain
Bridge
Statue
Archways
Market
Pottery
Fly-trap
Souvenirs
Carts
Hut
Tiles
Poetic Space
Castle
City
Hotel
Desk
Mirror
Glassware
Balcony
Bedroom
China Doll
Footstool
Breakfast
Beer
Mangoes
Sunset
Church
Jetty
Picture Hall
Bus Shelter
Ticket Box
Anchor
Lighthouse
Acknowledgements
About the Author
PREFACE
Bounty is a completed project of prose poetry that mainly reflects a whole body of objects per se subjects that occupy our state / home / locality / backyard / urban or rural environment. Often prose poetry does not get the recognition it deserves, yet in its small, squared form it is eye-catching, accessible and easily viewed. Certain ‘objects’, too, have been overlooked in the writing of poetry as having no emotional engagement, a lived experience or voice. Objects are inanimate, yet, as with fine-arts, they can appeal to the eye in an artistic sense and expression. Prose poetry also has the ability to include the poetic techniques of alliteration, symbolism, theme, repetition, sound, rhythm and figurative language. I have written many prose poems over the years, some have been published and I sincerely love the form. I am especially fond of the poetic suite: Ticket Box, Picture Hall, Bus Shelter and Anchor written while on Rottnest Island, Western Australia. These are examples of how one can document small structures that are historically significant. From various prose-poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Pierre Reverdy, Charles Simic and the Australian poet Gary Catalano, I have taken the idea that language can be surreal, experimental, interesting, fun and quirky. I am also inspired by the work of Gertrude Stein, an early twentieth-century contemporary of Pablo Picasso. Stein was largely influenced by cubist paintings and championed Picasso’s cubism by distorting language in her own avant-garde writing. This is evident in her expansive prose poem titled Tender Buttons. I am indebted to Stein who allowed me, by example, the freedom to experiment, to be progressive and to hopefully show how prose poetry can bring many subjects / ‘objects’ to life.
INTRODUCTION
This collection Bounty is a two decade long exploration of prose poetry. The form has allowed me to explore a multi-layer of styles and preoccupations within the genre. The collection as three separate sections and progressions range from the everyday life of the familiar as in Section 1 – Bounty that explores some common place objects such as rugs, cushions, cups, vases, clothes, cars, churches and houses. Section 2 – Cultural highlights the experience of travelling utilising various mechanisms of language. Section 3 – Avant is inspired by my university studies of Gertrude Stein especially her subversion of the conventional use of language. While Stein’s unconventional work was ‘language as cubism in a distorted framework’ where the reader makes meaning, my poetry encompasses some experience, meaning or