Thirsty Weather
Outback Press, $2.95 pb
Poetry
Verse drenched in tradition
by Belinda Vaughan •
This is poetry drenched in time and tradition. A wealth of powerful imagery connects heroic echoes, the ring of the Odyssey and of Beowulf, with the glassy glare of modern survival; there emerges an intense sensation that the elegance of hundreds of years of mannered Europe was nothing but an interim, an insubstantial veneer between chasms.
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Thirsty Weather
by Antigone Kefala
Outback Press, $2.95 pb
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