ALL WELCOME as the third sydneypoetry.com bookclub convenes at 7pm on Monday 27 September upstairs at Madam Fling Flongs (aka Soni's – 169 King St, Newtown) to discuss LK Holt's Patience, Mutiny.

(Sometimes there are private functions on upstairs, so if we're not up there, we'll be perched in the front bar downstairs.)

What you need to do between now and then: read the book, develop an opinion.

Oh and and have a think about what title we should do next!

About Patience, Mutiny
(via John Leonard Press)
LK Holt, Patience, Mutiny. 978-0-9805269-7-4, 50pp, RRP: 24.95

All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like—certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought. The darting variety that marked her awarded first collection has come to a steadier gaze in her second.

A nut-shell account of the book’s four parts might describe a movement from familial well-being—happy-being—to a concluding psalmic sufferance, through reflections on the survival-feats of boys and men, on the self-presence of young women, and on love.

That description catches her intimate touch but not her outreach. Holt’s writing shows how the present doesn’t escape the weight, or the light, of ancient narratives. History stands inside poems of contemporary dailiness, turning them to half-epic.

About LK Holt

LK Holt lives in Melbourne where she was born in 1982. Her childhood and growing up were mainly spent in Adelaide. Her first collection of poems, Man Wolf Man (John Leonard Press, 2007), won the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier’s Awards.

About sydneypoetry.com Bookclub
A monthly meet-up to discuss a recently published title.
* All welcome.
* We all read the same book.
* We meet on the last Monday of the month.
* We talk about the book.
* We choose another book for next month.
* Simple. Clean. Fun.

Can't make it?
Can't make it to the September Bookclub? Join us in October.

For online discussion go to the Poetry Bookclub group.