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Here, There and Elsewhere by Vivian Smith

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June 2012, no. 342

Here, There and Elsewhere by Vivian Smith

Giramondo, $24 pb, 70 pp, 9781920882815

Here, There and Elsewhere by Vivian Smith

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June 2012, no. 342

This new book of Vivian Smith’s is really quite a surprise. If it were the case of any other poet approaching his eighties you might think of it as rather a grab bag, knocked together out of odds and ends. It is made up of an imaginary biography of ‘Ern Malley’; another set of sonnets, ‘Diary Without Dates’, mainly dealing with momentary meetings; a small group of sonnets imagined as postcards; and two prose pieces: one remembering the 1953 exhibition of French paintings in Hobart, and the other recording visits to Pablo Neruda’s three houses.

Martin Duwell reviews 'Here, There and Elsewhere' by Vivian Smith

Here, There and Elsewhere

by Vivian Smith

Giramondo, $24 pb, 70 pp, 9781920882815

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