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Jane Hirshfield

The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield

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June 2024, no. 465
Felicity Plunkett reviews ‘The Asking: New and Selected Poems’ by Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield writes a poem on the first day of each year. ‘Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me’ is one of the new poems in The Asking, along with poems selected from nine collections published since 1982. It begins with a question the world asks (‘as it asks daily’): ‘And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?’

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'Interruption: An Assay', a new poem by Jane Hirshfield

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June-July 2018, no. 402

Sometimes you took the shape
of an unseen mosquito,
sometimes of illness ...

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News from the Editor's Desk - June–July 2018

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June-July 2018, no. 402

Ronan Farrow at MWF, Jane Hirshfield, ABR Prizes galore, SMH Young Novelists, La Mama Theatre, John Simkin Medal 2018, Melbourne Prize for Literature, Winter reading ...

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