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Wangaratta’s Cavafy

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November 1998, no. 206

Donatello in Wangaratta by Peter Rose

Hale & Iremonger, $16.95 pp, 72 pp

Wangaratta’s Cavafy

by
November 1998, no. 206

Don Anderson’s description of Peter Rose’s previous collection as having a fin de siècle mood to it, is surely appropriate to his new collection too. There is an air of decadence to Rose’s poetry, but while this may have much larger social implications – it is the end of the century after all – the decadence seems to me to have a more definite testament to offer. Rose’s is a starkly personal vision – focused on the emotional and moral failure of individuals rather than on the failure of the culture as a whole.

Donatello in Wangaratta

Donatello in Wangaratta

by Peter Rose

Hale & Iremonger, $16.95 pp, 72 pp

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