The Cyprian

The Cyprian
AuthorAmy Crutchfield
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherGiramondo Publishing
Publication dateSeptember 2023
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages80 pp.
Awards2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry, winner
ISBN9781922725776

The Cyprian is the debut collection of poetry by Australian author Amy Crutchfield, published by Giramondo Publishing, in 2023.[1]

The collection contains 30 poems from a variety of sources.[2] It was the winner of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry.[3]

Contents

  • "Egg"
  • "He Rises"
  • "Pothos II"
  • "Pothos III"
  • "Dora and the Minotaur 1936 – Ink, Pencil and Scratching on Paper"
  • "Camera Obscura"
  • "The Memory of Water"
  • "Helens of Troy"
  • "Moon Cocoon"
  • "Pumpkin"
  • "Yew"
  • "A Clean House"
  • "Market Day"
  • "MH17"
  • "Nothing is Past"
  • "True in the Senses"
  • "Alyki"
  • "A Party on the Coast"
  • "Beautiful Corpse"
  • "Half-Life"
  • "The Last Sense"
  • "Young Women in the Garden, Bonnard (1921-23/1945-46)"
  • "Young Women in the Garden II/The Colour of Escape"
  • "Paper Lantern"
  • "Skoliosi"
  • "Undo"
  • "Child Receding"
  • "Welcome to the Future of Custom Lightsabers"
  • "Ob."
  • "A Narrow Field"

Critical reception

In a review of all of the 2024 Prime Minister's Award winners Alexander Howard, writing for The Conversation website, noted: "The poems in The Cyprian wear their learning lightly. Intimate, honest and lyrical, they move inexorably 'towards love's borders, lawless places, and across those borders, to situations where love fails us, or we fail love'. Crutchfield, like many of the 2024 winners, does interesting things with literary form."[4]

The judges of the Prime Minister's Awards said of the work: "Amy Crutchfield’s The Cyprian reappraises the figure of Aphrodite—Greek goddess of beauty, lust, love, procreation and passion—from a contemporary vantage point, finding in Aphrodite a capacious and complex avatar for love and its violent destruction across time. Crutchfield's lines are almost aphoristic in their concision yet see through to worlds magnitudes larger, and her voice arrives fully-fledged, and entirely in command."[5]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Cyprian by Amy Crutchfield". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Austlit — The Cyprian by Amy Crutchfield". Austlit. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 Burke, Kelly (12 September 2024). "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  4. ↑ ""Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024: André Dao breaks rules and witnesses uncomfortable truths"". The Conversation, 12 September 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  5. ↑ ""Winners of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards announced"". Creative Australia. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
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