Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The Tuesday Poem




The Tuesday Poem this week is "A whimper after the bang" by Australian poet Emily Manger. 



I'm the editor of Tuesday Poem this week, and I comment as follows about the poem: 

"What I like most about this poem is its swagger. Most post-apocalyptic poems are, believe it or not, something of a downer, but - at least on the surface - the protagonist of this poem is full of vim and vigour, tough as biltong, a kickass predator perfectly adapted to her environment. The toughness of the character is mirrored by the toughness of the poem, a landscape of spiky lines."


"A whimper after the bang" is included in the anthology The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry (IP, 2014), which I co-edited with P.S. Cottier.

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