Letters from the Periphery

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The forty-eight poems that comprise Letters from the Periphery, Alex Skovrons seventh book-length collection, are populated by a variety of voices speaking across many settings from 1960s Sydney to the cafs of todays Melbourne, from the Trojan War and Byzantine Aleppo to the dark forest of Dantes Inferno, from eighteenth-century Lisbon to Vienna at the turn of the twentieth, from the American Civil War to warfronts of our time, and of the future. A richly diverse collection, this book also marks Skovrons return to the longer poem notably the title-sequence, featuring a mysterious stalker versed in philosophy; the suite The Light We Convert, grounded in the world of nineteenth-century music; and the poets translation of the opening Canto from The Divine Comedy.