Poetry
Ivor Indyk reviews 'Collected Poems, 1970–1998' by John Forbes
One of the benefits of a Collected More
Peter Steele reviews 'Saving from the Wreck: Essays on poetry' by Peter Porter
The cover illustration of Peter Porter’s selection of essays shows a mosaic from the Basilica di S. Marco, Venezia, in which Noah More
Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'New Selected Poems' by Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy, doctor and poet, is a writer of significant style and concision. This new selection of his lyric poetry lives up More
Brenda Niall reviews 'A Steady Storm of Correspondence: Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood 1943–1995' edited by Gregory Kratzmann
Gerard Windsor reviews 'The Great World' by David Malouf
Initial appearances notwithstanding, The Great WorldMore
Judith Bishop reviews The Gang Of One: Selected poems by Robert Harris
In a letter to a friend, American poet James Wright reflected on the meaning of a Selected Poems for a peer he considered undervalued: ‘It shows that defeat, though imminent for More
Ivor Indyk reviews 'Collected Poems, 1970–1998' by John Forbes
One of the benefits of a Collected is that it places individual poems within the context of the poet’s whole More
Peter Goldsworthy reviews 'The Book of My Enemy: Collected verse 1958–2003' by Clive James
Someone once described Clive James as ‘a great bunch of guys’, a joke worthy of James himself, although he is probably tired of hearing it. Some of those guys – the television comedi More
Peter Steele reviews 'Collected Poems 1943–1995' by Gwen Harwood
W.H. Auden, following Samuel Butler, thought that ‘the true test of imagination is the ability to name a cat’, and plenty of people, poets, and others have believed this: to recast a d More
Paul Kane reviews 'The Poetry of Les Murray' edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Les Murray' by Steven Matthews, and 'Poems the Size of Photographs' by Les Murray
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs More
