Second Thoughts

by B N Oakman

Overview

B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150452237
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	08/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	68
File size:	261 KB

About the Author

B N Oakman, formerly an academic economist, started writing poetry in 2006. He has since published many poems in Australia and overseas as well as a full-length book, In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (IP, 2010) and two booklets, Chalk Dust (2009) and Secret Heart (2013), both with Mark Time Books.

He was awarded a grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. His work is recorded on the ABC Classics CD, Peter Cundall Reads War Poetry and he reads his poetry at various events and festivals.

His work has been nominated for The Pushcart Poetry Prize 2015 (USA). Second Thoughts is his second full-length collection.

Editorial Reviews

Oakman writes poems for those annoyed by poets. Resisting the florid and the abstract, Oakman drives directly at the point, with here and there a verse like Incan stonework, so carefully composed you barely see the joins.

Going Down Swinging - Geoff Lemon

His poems are filled with surprises, sometimes making us smile, but the unexpected distilled truths he uncovers about ourselves and the world in which we live, can leave us weak and trembling, but always wanting more.

back cover - Peter Cundall

He goes to the centre of things, drawing on both past and present as he creates landscapes of feeling in poems in which history, politics, people and places are refracted through a deeply felt understanding of the human condition.

Arena Magazine - Valerie Kripps

A collection of not just second but infinitely reconsidered thoughts on all the major themes of life and literature; a succession of brief encounters with a rich, and enriching, array of people, places, passions.

Meanjin Magazine - Ian Britain

Moments of frolic are shot through with wisdom, as elsewhere a purposeful ruggedness leads on to refinement. So many poems are distinguished by their final line: demonstrations of organic closure � conceptually retroactive, forceful yet elegant.

back cover - John Flaus