Blind Summits: Ross Bolleter & Christopher Konrad
Poetry written between two poets: Christopher Konrad and Ross Bolleter.
The poems are interlaced in renga style, without the formal and strict structures of that ancient Japanese form. The poems were sent like epistles between the two poets over several years with each poet writing a response in the form of the next work.
This volume of poems will appeal to those who enjoy the challenges of prose poetry, in this case using a ‘call and response’ form. Blind Summits offers crafted derangements, in the Rimbaudian sense of sensory excess, to hyper-expose the creative possibilities of open, and sometimes arbitrary, associations that still evoke powerfully.
Published 2020.
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Blind Summits (Sunline Press) reviewed by Stuart Crowe in Westerly
This volume of poems will appeal to those who enjoy the challenges of prose poetry, in this case using a ‘call and response’ form. Blind Summits offers crafted derangements, in the Rimbaudian sense of sensory excess, to hyper expose the creative possibilities of open, and sometimes arbitrary, associations that still evoke powerfully.
Blind Summits offers eclectic scenarios that work like found fragments of hybrid worlds via migratory, refugee, enslaved, Indigenous, homeless and disembodied narratives; often strained with the residual effects of a brutal colonial history. In past and contemporary settings of the outback, rural hinterlands and the suburbs, fate runs amok in personal and domestic struggles—in relationships breaking down or broken—sometimes softened with hope and the possibility of reconciliation and recovery.
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