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John Thompson

John Thompson reviews 'Letters Lifted into Poetry: Selected correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart 1946–1979

March 2007, no. 289 01 March 2007
The writer Meg Stewart remembers, with affection and an abiding sense of privilege, growing up as witness to the friendship that flourished between two passionate Australian poets. One of these was her father, the New Zealand-born Douglas Stewart, for many years literary editor of the Bulletin. The other was the glamorous David Campbell, who served with distinction in the wartime RAAF and wrote hi ... (read more)