{"product_id":"elsewhere-by-john-mateer","title":"'Elsewhere' by John Mateer","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"540\"\u003eJohn Mateer’s \u003cem data-start=\"43\" data-end=\"54\"\u003eElsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry collection about displacement, memory, South Africa, Australia, travel, colonial residue, language and violence.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"540\"\u003eThe contents point toward South African place and history — Azania, Johannesburg, Valkenburg, Devil’s Peak, the Highveld — but also toward the instability of elsewhere itself: the way exile, migration, family memory, and political inheritance make every location feel haunted by another one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"1015\"\u003eMateer’s poems have a spare, alert, image-driven quality: streetkids, graveyards, mothers, mountains, alchemists, video messages, cities, birds, fragments of speech, and landscapes that seem to carry historical charge under the surface. This is good for readers of contemporary poetry, South African\/Australian literary crossings, postcolonial poetics, memory work, place-writing, and small-press poetry that doesn’t behave like decorative feeling. A quiet but serious one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1017\" data-end=\"1243\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition paperback published by Salt Publishing in 2007. ISBN 9781844712755. Good second-hand condition, with light handling and shelfwear. Internally clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45685337030739,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_49.png?v=1781077238","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/elsewhere-by-john-mateer","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}