Foreword: The Best Australian Poetry 2003
Foreword: Bronwyn Lea Guest editor: Martin Duwell Series editors: Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell The Best Australian Poetry 2003, the first in what we hope will be a long and vibrant series, is a...
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Guest editor: Anthony Lawrence Series editors: Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell The Best Australian Poetry 2004 is the second of our projected annual surveys of contemporary Australian poetry published in...
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Guest editor: Judith Beveridge Series editors: Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell It should cause no surprise that Judith Beveridge, the editor of the fourth collection in our Best Australian Poetry...
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Guest editor: John Tranter Series editors: Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell The editor of this, the fifth volume in our series does, literally, need no introduction, at least for most readers of...
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Nothing would ever be the same. Ted Hughes, still married to poet Sylvia Plath, fell in love with Assia Wevill’s marvellous, unnaturally huge, grey eyes resembling, as he put it, those of a “Black...
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“Style,” Gore Vidal defined, “is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” And that is precisely how Vidal – daring, bawdy, an intellectual swashbuckler – lived his life, which...
View ArticleLest we forget: binyon’s ode of remembrance
On an autumn day in 1914 Laurence Binyon sat on a cliff in North Cornwall, somewhere between Pentire Point and the Rump. It was less than seven weeks after the outbreak of war, but British casualties...
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