Stuart Cooke, Corrosions many of the poems deal

many of the poems deal with art

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Creating space for delicate and passionate ambivalence

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Stuart Cooke, Corrosions many of the poems dealCorrosions is a prequel to Stuarts first full length collection, Edge Music (IP, 2011). A collection of corroded points or beginnings, it is about some of the paths taken by a young poet as he struggles to understand the relationship between language, landscape and history in contemporary Australia, and how to locate his own body in the midst of it all. Far ranging, he can return his poems to the immediate context of Australian voice and manner a