"In this volume, British artist David Musgrave revisits Franz Kafka's novella Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, the tale of a man who arrives home one day to find two plastic balls bouncing off the ground of their own accord. To his great irritation, these balls follow Blumfeld--who is a stickler for absolute order in his universe--wherever he goes, and his attempts to divest himself of their presence are described with Kafka's customary fl ..."
Numb & Number (Paperback or Softback) by DavidMusgrave 82 Pages, Published 2019 by Puncher & Wattmann 2019-04 ISBN-13: 978-1-925780-38-3, ISBN: 1-925780-38-4
"David Musgrave's seventh collection of poems is a kind of clearing: poems which open up, sometimes painfully, sometimes joyfully, what it is to be in the world ... this collection encompasses a wide range of emotions, attitudes, forms and ..."
Anatomy of Voice by DavidMusgrave Paperback, Published 2016 by Gloria Smh ISBN-13: 978-0-9945275-0-9, ISBN: 0-9945275-0-0
"In this book-length poem, (which starts in a manner reminiscent of Beckett's Company), the isness of voice is its central preoccupation: it is considered from as many different aspects as there are parts to this multiform poem."
Grotesque Anatomies(1st Edition) Menippean Satire Since the Renaissance by DavidMusgrave Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-5677-5, ISBN: 1-4438-5677-0
"Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot's The Waste Land and Pope's Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated developmen ..."
Lambda by DavidMusgrave Softcover, Published 2024 by Europa Editions (Uk) Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78770-465-7, ISBN: 1-78770-465-3
Concrete Tuesday (Paperback) by DavidMusgrave Paperback, 61 Pages, Published 2011 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-0-909771-83-6, ISBN: 0-909771-83-9
"Concrete Tuesday contains two new sequences, including the stunning GRACE, which won the Josephine Ulrick Prize in 2008 and tells the story, backwards, of a man who loses his soul."
On Reflection(1st Edition) (Emerging Authors) by DavidMusgrave Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2005 by Interactive Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-876819-27-9, ISBN: 1-876819-27-8
"This evocative poetry collection is cleverly interspersed with prose poems that help set the scene for the poems. The collection follows a young poet through his daily life, and the poem s subtitle of a Twenty-Twenty Vision is an apt description of the two sides of story we see both the creative, poetic side and the prose poetry fact side. The publication of this title was supported by a grant from the Australia Council. This collecti ..."
"5 Secrets of the River Qi is a 20 page book of detailed pen and ink drawings - lighthearted cartoony things to make you smile, written from the author's 23 years of practicing acupuncture. You will learn stuff naturally because it is a fun read, and may be be inclined, or not, to color the drawings. You can give it to your kid or keep it under the covers for yourself, or if you are a healer, put it in your healthcare waiting room - what ..."
"This book is aimed at providing criticism on contemporary Australian poetry in a form that is accessible to general readers. It is intended to be the first in a series which will grapple with the bewildering diversity of the contemporary poetry scene. Australian poetry deserves a criticism that accompanies the astonishing momentum and luminosity that has developed, which both elucidates the scale of poetic achievement and is also not af ..."
"All These Presences publishes poems by creative writing students at Avondale College alongside work by a selection of established Australian poets. Like the three earlier volumes it follows, Wording the World (2010), Here Not There (2012) and A Way of Happening (2014), it is a unique collaboration between writers at very different stages of learning and practising their craft. Poetry writing is an intensely personal expression of exper ..."
""The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater. A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century."
"'Anatomy of Voice' is a book length poem which is part elegy, part meditation and part emblem book."
Grotesque Anatomies Menippean Satire since the Renaissance by DavidMusgrave 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6920-1, ISBN: 1-4438-6920-1
"Menippean Satire since the Renaissance David Musgrave. PREFACE. Since
Northrop Frye and, later, Mikhail Bakhtin brought the genre to the attention of the
mainstream academic community in the latter half of the twentieth century, there
has been a veritable explosion of critical interest in works that have been
identified, rightly or wrongly, as belonging to the genre of Menippean satire—and
in the genre itself. Through a combination ..."
Selected Poems (Hardcover) by DavidMusgrave Published 2014 by Eyewear Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-908998-39-2, ISBN: 1-908998-39-3
Phantom Limb (Paperback) by DavidMusgrave, Peter Steele Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 2010 by John Leonard Press, St Kilda ISBN-13: 978-0-9805269-9-8, ISBN: 0-9805269-9-X
"They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in. Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly."
"After incarnating the “boom object” of the industrialized nations in the 1950s and 1960s, unaided, the compact object is nowadays regarded at once as cute (minority, superfluous) and disquieting (metaphysical, critical, and mutinous). We hate to love it and love to hate it. The contemporary mini has sex appeal. Even when multiplied, it remains one-off.This mini, compact catalogue, written in both French and English and available in six ..."