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Sly Daffodils

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December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

Under a Medlar Tree by Syd Harrex

Lythrum Press, $22pb, 46pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Head and Shin by Tim Thorne

Walleah Press, $20pb, 141pp

Sly Daffodils

by
December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

Under a Medlar Tree is Syd Harrex’s fifth slim collection since his first, Atlantis, came out twenty years ago. With connections to both Tasmania and South Australia, Harrex has travelled widely and appears to be one of those poets who has made that Faustian bargain with academia where Mephistopheles says: ‘I will deliver you much material (but not the time to use it).’ Such a trade-off seems to ensure that its signatory will be an occasional poet, a poet of travel pieces, of dedications and elegies, of small moments saved and treasured between bouts of academic writing. As befits a man under such pressures, much of Harrex’s poetry has been about love and death. With Under a Medlar Tree, this is even more the case.

Under a Medlar Tree

Under a Medlar Tree

by Syd Harrex

Lythrum Press, $22pb, 46pp

Head and Shin

Head and Shin

by Tim Thorne

Walleah Press, $20pb, 141pp

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