Fire Diary

(second edition)

 
Pitt Street Poetry 2014 | Paperback with French Flaps

Pitt Street Poetry
2014 | Paperback with French Flaps

 

Mark Tredinnick’s first book of poems, winner of the WA Premier’s Award. It includes the prize-winning poems “Eclogues,” “Paradise,” “Red Tulips,” and “Have You Seen,” along with “Fortune,”, “Insolvency,” and “Fire Diary.” A kind of spiritual geography, an everyday ecology of “the beautiful trouble” one finds oneself in.



“…a poet of commanding presence, a phrase-maker who plunges with a light deep into our minds. But in his discovery of the natural world and a fitting language for it in Fire Diary, Tredinnick gives us a feeling of perception that still has the dew on it.”

—Robert Gray

 

Mark Tredinnick’s poetry is remarkable for the astute witness it bears to the beauty and vulnerability of the landscape and our place within it. These poems are full of vision and affirming wisdom—and a strong and graceful music.”

—Judith Beveridge

 

“Immaculately orchestrated and enormously skilful. Tredinnick works elegantly and intimately over a huge terrain.”

—Martin Harrison