Poetry
Julian Croft reviews 'Fresh Linen' by Gary Catalano, 'The Hooded Lamp' by Roland Robinson, and 'At Valentines' by Ken Taylor
by Julian Croft •
These three volumes, reprints of books published in the 1970s and 1980s, appear in the Art Box Series by Picaro Press. Reasonably priced, they will give contemporary readers a sense of the seedbed of Australian poetry a few decades ago. These volumes do just that. It would be hard to imagine a ...
... (read more)The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet edited by A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
by William Christie •
'Hautes Fenêtres: Thoughts on the place of translation in recent Australian poetry' by Simon West
by Simon West •
In a 1995 interview for the Paris Review, Ted Hughes was asked if the 1960s boom in translated poetry, particularly with series such as the Penguin Modern European Poets, had influenced poetry written in England. ‘Has it modified the British tradition!’ he replied. ‘Everything is now completely open, every approach, with infinite possibilities. Obviou ...
New Impressions of Africa: Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique by Raymond Roussel, translated by Mark Ford
by William Heyward •
Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings by Barry Hill and John Wolseley
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •