Rivers
FACP, $21.95 pb, 83pp
The State of the Rivers and the Streams
Five Islands Press, $16.95 pb, 69pp
Deep River
Rivers are important to us in all sorts of ways: usefully symbolic for poets, often loved in childhood while ‘messing about in boats’, sucked dry by cotton farmers, worried over by environmentalists, boosted by local patriots, and so on. The indefatigable Australian poet John Kinsella was certainly onto a good idea when he recruited two other poets based in England to join him in a three-way livre composé about the subject.
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Rivers
by Peter Porter, Sean O'Brien and John Kinsella
FACP, $21.95 pb, 83pp
The State of the Rivers and the Streams
by Warrick Wynne
Five Islands Press, $16.95 pb, 69pp
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