Poetry

The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish (edited by Philip Salom) & Keeping Carter by M.A. Carter (edited by Philip Salom)

by Cassandra Atherton •

May 2012, no. 341

The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish (edited by Philip Salom)

Puncher & Wattmann (Inbooks), $24 pb, 90 pp, 9781921450464

Keeping Carter by M.A. Carter (edited by Philip Salom)

Puncher & Wattmann (Inbooks), $24 pb, 96 pp, 9781921450471

Poetry

The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish (edited by Philip Salom) & Keeping Carter by M.A. Carter (edited by Philip Salom)

by Cassandra Atherton •

May 2012, no. 341

In his Keepers trilogy, Philip Salom is an Eliotian Fisher King, exploring the fissuring of identity in a triple play of plurality. The first book, Keepers (2010), was written by Salom, but authorship of The Keeper of Fish and Keeping Carter is attributed to Alan Fish and M.A. Carter,respectively. In his role as editor for these two poets, Salom becomes their gatekeeper or, as he states, their ‘amanuensis, editor, mentor and promoter’.

Cassandra Atherton

Cassandra Atherton is a poet and scholar. She is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She was a Harvard Visiting Fellow in English and a Visiting Scholar in Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo. She is writing a book of prose poetry on the atomic bomb with funding from an Australia Council grant.