Poems

Night Vision

September 2003, no. 254

Poems

Night Vision

September 2003, no. 254

Those towering and vertiginous heights
           Of night
At which you crane your next to gaze
    (And Dante saw ascending,
           Ablaze
In sphere on sphere of crowded light,
    Beyond a mortal sight’s
Earth-shadowed powers of apprehending),

Stephen Edgar

By this contributor

Stephen Edgar’s anthology collection The Strangest Place: New and Collected Poems (Black Pepper 2020) won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2021. His latest collection is Ghosts of Paradise (Pitt Street Poetry 2023).

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by Patrick Mullins
History

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by Phillip Deery
Fiction

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by Morgan Nunan

Stephen Edgar

From the New Issue

Is our democracy failing us?: Looking beyond the cost-of-living crisis

What's the Big Idea? edited by Anna Chang and Alice Grundy & Age of Doubt edited by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang

Lost Souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn

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