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Simon Patton

Simon Patton reviews 'The Earthquake Lands' by Hal Colebatch, 'The Winter Baby' by Jennifer Maiden, and 'To the Ocean & Scheherazade' by Richard Allen

November 1990, no. 126 01 November 1990
One of the challenges confronting the writer of poetry is the balancing of public and private modes in an engaging and satisfactory whole. In these three collections the precarious possibilities of balance, of confiding and confronting, are attempted in very different ways. In The Earthquake Lands Hal Colebatch presents tightly structured poems reflecting a carefully elaborated world view. Here i ... (read more)