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All one can do

Poetry as the salted wen
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July 2025, no. 477

Attention, Please! by Peter Rose

Pitt Street Poetry, $28 pb, 79 pp

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All one can do

Poetry as the salted wen
by
July 2025, no. 477

Peter Rose, the editor, for just under a quarter of a century, of these pages, has put down his scissors and pot of glue to turn seventy (in June) and step back into civilian life. Coincidentally or not, he has also just put out another book of poems, Attention, Please!, his first since The Subject of Feeling in 2015. The new title – a softened imperative – speaks aptly and cannily for the contents.

Attention, Please!

Attention, Please!

by Peter Rose

Pitt Street Poetry, $28 pb, 79 pp

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