Stuart Cooke, Corrosions “Armand has done for Prague

“Armand has done for Prague what Genet achieves in Our Lady of the Flowers

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“I am certain that in reading the enthralling poems of Carlomar

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Stuart Cooke, Corrosions “Armand has done for PragueCorrosions 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