Description: "Escaping from the evils of the modern world into the vivid colours of a bird's plumage, Michael Trussler's 10:10 plunges into the mystery and horror of living at the beginning of the Anthropocene. How can there be both terrible violence and extraordinary beauty in the world? How can birdwatching coexist with genocide? How can nature be loved and destroyed all at once? Trussler's poetic voice is delightfully fluid: moments and images from movies, aesthetic theory, and animal life collide in each poem, sometimes in a single line. From lyrics to prose, high art to emails, Trussler sifts through the shards of society to seek refuge in the beauty."-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: Like a wedding dress fashioned from a WWII parachute, Trussler's poems billow and collapse time and context with hopeful invention. A postcard to the Anthropocene, a staring contest with the frozen clockfaces of a Kienholz exhibition, Trussler's poems teach us the transformative power of lyric poetry to relieve us from linearity and welcome, with open hands, the ongoing presence of our complicated pasts. 10:10 arrives right on time. - Jennifer Still, author of Comma, winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry