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Oz poets, turning Japanese
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September 1986, no. 84

Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Yasuko Claremont

Tamagawa University Press, 188 pp, $15.00

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Oz poets, turning Japanese
by
September 1986, no. 84

Written in Japanese, this is an introduction to Australian people through Australian poetry. Yasuko Claremont is a long-time Japanese resident in Australia who studied Australian literature at Sydney University. Finding unacceptable the image, widely-propagated among the Japanese, of ‘jolly Australians who do not work as hard as the Japanese,’ she wrote this book to help the Japanese ‘get to the heart of the Australians,’ which, she thinks, can be done effectively through reading Australian poems in the language of the Australians.

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