Lost in the Foreground
Duffy & Snellgrove, $22 pb, 76 pp
Poetry
Edgar’s finesse
by Judith Beveridge •
Stephen Edgar’s fifth volume, Lost in the Foreground, is a book of marvels, both technically and in the elegant, magisterial reach of its content. He is wonderfully inventive, and his complex rhyme schemes and forms are achieved with such precision and finesse that one can only conjecture as to how long each piece must have taken to become so lovingly and artfully realised.
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Lost in the Foreground
by Stephen Edgar
Duffy & Snellgrove, $22 pb, 76 pp
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