Embracing the Razor
Puncher & Wattmann, $25 pb, 97 pp, 9781922186621
Poetry
Embracing the Razor by John Upton
by Geoff Page •
Writers who move in mid-career from one literary genre to another often encounter resistance. Some turfs are well guarded. They can also misapprehend the new form they are planning to join. John Upton, who for almost thirty years has been a successful playwright and screenwriter, has made the difficult move seamlessly in this first collection of poems.
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