Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Austrlia and New Zealand

by Anna Jackson

Truth and Beauty turns critical attention to an exciting genre that lies at the intersection of biography and poetry, narrative and lyric, history and the confessional. With essays on influential verse biographers Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Porter, Michael Ondaatje, Jennifer Maiden and Anne Carson along with newer practitioners including Chris Orsman, Jordie Albiston, Robert Sullivan, Tusiata Avia and Amy Brown, this collection looks at the inevitable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1776560973
• ISBN13: 9781776560974
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"