Trap Landscape
Trap Landscape charts a course, trick-riding through poetic topography. From cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar, Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred miscellany to find tulips in the chimney, the scenic peaks of the landfill, and rifles in the maize.
Word play and vernacular collide to re-imagine language in a dreamscape that is by turns pastoral and surreal, ominous and absurd.
It’s all fun and games until you’re caught in the Trap Landscape.
Nicholas Powell is an Australian poet; his first book, Water Mirrors, won the 2011 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Born in Armidale N.S.W, he grew up in south-east Queensland and has moved between Brisbane, Melbourne, and Finland, where he now lives with his wife and two children.
