Kevin Brophy
Kevin Brophy has had nine collections of poetry published, as well as works of fiction and collections of essays. He has received the Martha Richardson Medal for poetry and the Calibre Essay Prize. In 2015 he was poet in residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome, and in 2019–20 he is poet in residence at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
Towns in the Great Desert, a New and Selected, may be the collection that defines Peter Boyle. Among Australian poets, Peter Boyle is an exotic, one who is likely to be read far into the future.
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The Sublime
at 86 and 91 they are still together more or less and greet me at the door as if I am the punchline to a joke they were just recalling
my mother staggers sideways in the drive my father reaches out for a wall, a rail, an arm with the urgency telephones demand
they know what it is now and do their best to hide this knowledge from us agreeing to be forgetful and ever more fr ... (read more)