Too Close for Comfort
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Too Close for Comfort
By (Author) Pip Smith
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
13th September 2013
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
70
Width 148mm, Height 210mm
Description
Pip Smith's Too Close for Comfort, is the inaugural winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest, a biennial prize for a book of poetry by an Australian female poet which deals in some way with Australian culture. This award (and future awards) has been made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Helen Anne Bell, a former student at the University of Sydney. The inaugural award in 2013 drew a highly competitive field of entries, but the judges, Joanne Burns, Jill Jones and myself, felt that Pip Smith's poems were the ones which engaged most robustly and imaginatively with Australian life, concerns, and culture in the 21st century.
From the Foreword by Judith Beveridge.
Reviews
Smiths voice is anything but timid, and its when she modulates difficult with a more restrained-but-fluent perspicacity that the collection really starts to build its force. -- Antonia Pont * Cordite Poetry Review *
Author Bio
Pip Smith writes songs, poems and stories. She holds a doctorate in creative arts from Western Sydney University and works in a bookshop. Her debut novel Half Wild (Allen & Unwin, 2017) was the winner of the Sydney Morning Heralds Best Young Australian Novelists 2018.
