Scanning the Horizon
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Mark Miller was born in Warren in western New South Wales. He attended school in Orange before graduating with an Honours degree in English Literature at the University ofNew England in Armidale. His first book of poems, Conversing With Stones, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award in 1989 and his second, This Winter Beach, was published in 1999. Scanning the Horizon is Mark's long-awaited third collection, featuring many poems which have won national awards, including the Henry Lawson Open Poetry Prize (2015, 2018), the Rolf Boldrewood Open Poetry Prize (2008, 2016), the Queensland Fellowship of Australian Writers Poetry Prize (2008, 2015) and the Vera Newsom Poetry Prize (2009). Written with the same sharp eye for detail and spare, precise imagery as his previous two books, poems in Scanning the Horizon are vivid, alive and spontaneous in their celebrations of family and the richness and joys of nature. It is a powerful and elegant collection by a poet in control of his forms and speaking in ways that are fresh and distinctive.
'Acute observations of the natural world, especially the Shoalhaven district of the south coast of New South Wales, coupled with brilliant and evocative vistas… In Scanning the Horizon, Mark Miller has created an intensely private world that is also as universal as the sunlight that illuminates it…' - Peter Skrzynecki
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is Chief Strategy Officer at Team One, Publicis Groupe's premium and luxury brand agency. He is also the founder of The Legacy Lab, a research and consulting practice within Team One. With more than two decades of experience in the communications industry, Miller has earned a reputation for intersecting creativity with intelligence to help global brands drive change. His work has been awarded by the Advertising Research Foundation's David Ogilvy Awards, by the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Jay Chiat Awards, and by Effie Worldwide which recognizes marketing effectiveness. He was also named a Trendsetter and an Agency Innovator for thought leadership on global branding by The Internationalist. Miller's modern legacy is building and restoring great brands through finding more relevant ways to continue their stories.
Lucas Conley is a journalist and a contributing researcher and writer with The Legacy Lab. He began his career at The Atlantic Monthly and has written for The Boston Globe, Fast Company, ESPN: The Magazine, SPIN, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine. Conley is the author of Obsessive Branding Disorder and coauthor of The Method Method. He has been invited to speak about his work on The Colbert Report, ABC World News, CNN's BookTV, NPR, and at South by Southwest. His modern legacy is exploring the human dimension of business through journalism.
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