The infernal topographies of the title are more psychological than geographical, though physical travel and the infusing of the past into the present are also at issue. Driven in part by the anxieties of time and mortality that have always been at the root of lyric, these poems are also shaped by the pressure of the likely collapse of the current social order, and by impending and current extinctions. Weaving the domestic, the oneiric and the outside worlds, these are poems that try to find a place from which to speak and think when so much seems to be ending.

Item Type:	Published Creative Work
Keywords:	poetry, Australian literature
Research Division:	Language, Communication and Culture
Research Group:	Literary studies
Research Field:	Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
Objective Division:	Culture and Society
Objective Group:	Communication
Objective Field:	Literature
UTAS Author:	Miles, G (Dr Graeme Miles)
ID Code:	140927
Year Published:	2020
Deposited By:	History and Classics
Deposited On:	2020-09-15
Last Modified:	2021-06-09
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