The eighty poems in At the Noisy Café, stone-skip across the Shakespearean elements of misconception, reason versus emotion, fate and the fantastical, idyllic setting, insult, separation, reconciliation and happy endings.
Song of Nestor is a ninety-line Homeric epic that tells the little-known David-and-Goliath story of St Nestor and the Vandal-giant, Lyaeus. The startlingly original Cavafy Villanelles, depicts, in verse-form, a sequence of ten little known biographical details of the famous Greek poet's life. The Murder of Alberta King and Broad Arrow Café memorialize two traumatic community tragedies. There are lightning-strike flashbacks from the Australian poet's Italian-American Ohio childhood with Kissing grandma, Frozen kittens and the humorous, Miss Ohio dummy, and tender poems of love and heartbreak in I never found those lips again, Aloysius' lament, Daddy plus one and Our loss.
Over the past six years, every poem in At the Noisy Café has been published individually in poetry journals in Australia and overseas.
This is the first time they have been collected together in one volume.
Joe Dolce is the recipient of the Advance Australia Award, the winner of the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Health Poetry Prize and the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup. He was a 2020 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate and included in Best Australian Poems twice. His songs have been recorded by hundreds of artists internationally.
Les Murray AO, recipient of the TS Eliot Award and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry wrote:
'Renowned songwriter Joe Dolce has long outgrown the pop lyric and moved into a risky domain where recitative, comedy, folk and slapstick build shelters for themselves among social commentary and the poetry of lists.'
Sprache
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-922954-42-8 (9781922954428)
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Joe Dolce was born in 1947, in Painesville, Ohio, USA, moved to Australia in 1979 and is a dual National citizen of both countries. He is a song-writer, composer, performer, poet, film reviewer and essayist. He was a 2021 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate, Highly Commended in the 2020 ACU Poetry Prize, short-listed in the 2020 & 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prizes, short-listed in the 2019, 2018, 2017 & 2014 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prizes and awarded First Prize in the 2017 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Health Poetry Prize, for his choral libretto, And let the wonder in. His poetry was included in Best Australian Poems 2015 & 2014 and he was winner of the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup (2010). He is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent, At the Noisy Café, published in 2023, by Busybird Publishing.In the 90s, he composed and orchestrated an SATB oratorio, Joan on Fire, which was performed by the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Chorelation choir at the Melbourne Baptist Church. He taught Composition, Setting Poetry to Music, and Ensemble for two years at the Australian Institute of Music. He is more popularly known, internationally, for writing and performing the song, Shaddap You Face (1980-81) which was the Number One 45 rpm record (back in the days when they made 45 rpm records!) on the pop charts in a dozen countries and held the nine-times platinum award for the most successful song in Australian music history for four decades. He is co-writer, with Lin van Hek, of the song Intimacy, which was part of the soundtrack of the sci-fi masterpiece, The Terminator, selected as part of the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry archives. His songs have been recorded, internationally, by scores of artists. In 1981, he was presented with the Advance Australia Award by Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED, Premier of Victoria.The recipe for Basil-Chili Tomato Sauce, with Guanciale, Fennel Sausage & Kangaroo Braciole, was the First Prize winner in the 2007 Hepburn Springs Swiss-Italian Festa Great Pasta Sauce Contest.He lives in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, with his partner, of forty-three years, Lin van Hek.
