Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-2005
Pearson, $29.95 pb, 337 pp, 0733978797
Open Dawe
People outside Australia are struck when Bruce Dawe is described as Australia’s most popular poet, just as people outside Ireland are struck when Paul Durcan or Brendan Kennelly is described as Ireland’s most popular poet. What about Les Murray, or Seamus Heaney? Are not these world-class poets ‘of the people’? Even more puzzling is that Dawe, like Durcan and Kennelly, is not necessarily an easy poet. Is their domestic popularity tied to how they seem to be ‘not for export’?
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Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-2005
by Bruce Dawe
Pearson, $29.95 pb, 337 pp, 0733978797
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