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Baudelaire’s dream

Gary Catalano’s distinguished prose poetry
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March 2022, no. 440

Collected Prose Poems by Gary Catalano

Life Before Man, $24.99 pb, 232 pp

Baudelaire’s dream

Gary Catalano’s distinguished prose poetry
by
March 2022, no. 440

The poetry community in Australia, as in the United Kingdom, has been slow to accept prose poetry as a legitimate poetic form. Yet there have been celebrated exponents of prose poetry over nearly two centuries – and even longer if the prose component of the Japanese Haibun, developed by Matsuo Bashō (1644–94), is understood as prose poetry.

Paul Hetherington reviews 'Collected Prose Poems' by Gary Catalano

Collected Prose Poems

by Gary Catalano

Life Before Man, $24.99 pb, 232 pp

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