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| | Eggins |
 | | Jayne Fenton Keane, The Transparent Lung, Flaxton: Post Pressed, 2003; Ashlley Morgan-Shae, Love Trash, Wollongong: Five Islands Press, 2002; Laura Jan Shore, Breathworks, Byron Bay: Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002; Penelope Evans, Cross-hatched poems, Earlwood: Bemac Publications, 2004; Beatriz Coppelo, Meditations at the Edge of a Dream, Brisbane: Glass House Books, 2001. |
 | | JFK is well-known as an accomplished and intense performer of her own work, and the evolution of these poems as texts for performance, as well as poetry for the page, owes much to recent developments in contemporary poetics towards the stage, the internet, and hypertext in particular. |
 | | My inside knowledge that in JFK's own experience there was no such happy ending somewhat weakens the final impact for me. Perhaps it's a case of the narrative having to end somewhere, and that the complexities of grief and loss will be fertile ground for seeding a subsequent collection. |
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