The poems of Ecstacies and Elegies are as engaging and virtuosic in their range of styles as they are generous in their imagery. In his first full length volume of poems, a celebrated debut, we encounter a startling overlay of immemorial myth and ephemeral urban encounter. Spirits of the classical world jostle with the sensory stimuli of contemporary domestic life. Desire tours a terrain of abysses.
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Paul Carter is a highly acclaimed author, artist and interdisciplinary scholar. He collaborates with graphic artists, performers, architects and landscape designers and has received many national and state awards. He is Creative Director of Material Thinking, and holds honorary professorships at the University of Melbourne, RMIT (Melbourne) and the University of Queensland. In 2006 he was George Simpson Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Paul Carter has published widely since his celebrated book, The Road to Botany Bay: An essay in spatial history, was released in 1987. His previous book with UWA Publishing was Ground Truthing: Explorations in a Creative Region (2010). Ecstacies and Elegies is his first poetry collection.