250 Not Out: Kerryn Goldsworthy on ABR's Milestone http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1235 2013-05-22T17:14:24Z 2013-05-22T17:14:24Z Steele, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1275 2013-05-13T01:59:17Z 2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Tendering the Cup. "Collected Poems 1943-1995" by Gwen Harwood. [review] Authors: Steele, Peter Abstract: W.H. Auden, following Samuel Butler, thought that 'the true test of imagination is the ability to name a cat', and plenty of people, poets and others have believed this: to recast a dictum of Christ's, if you can't be trusted with the cats, why should we trust you with the tigers? Gwen Harwood could be trusted with the cats, and with yet more domestic things.

2003-04-01T00:00:00Z Duwell, Martin http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1274 2013-05-13T01:59:16Z 2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: No Time to Waste. "Poems for America" by David Rowbotham. [review] Authors: Duwell, Martin Abstract: David Rowbotham is a Queensland poet whose first book was published nearly fifty years ago. His career has a shape that is often found in the arts: a quiet figure whose work is politely rather than rhapsodically received, and whose reputation grows almost by a process of attrition until, eventually, he is one of the few of his contemporaries left standing. It often comes about that a consistent, undemonstrative style, adhered to religiously, itself becomes an important statement, to be rediscovered by a new generation of contemporaries. But this is not quite what has happened in Rowbotham's case, because his books have changed continuously. He began writing as a young man, returned from the war, discovering for the first time the place in which he had grown up: "Ploughman and Poet" (1954) may be "Bulletin" in style, but it is a complex book, and the central oppositions between city and Darling Downs, between manual labour and poetry, remain compelling. Rowbotham's poems have always been more complex than his reputation suggests. It would be a tragedy if readers allowed themselves to be repelled rather than challenged by the difficulties of the poems in this important book.

2003-04-01T00:00:00Z Dennis, Oliver http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1273 2013-05-13T01:59:10Z 2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Being There. "Mangroves" by Laurie Duggan. [review] Authors: Dennis, Oliver Abstract: Poems are like mangroves. They lodge and grow in the mind, becoming part of us, just as these plants take root in estuarine silt. Even on the page, there is sometimes a resemblance. As its title suggests, Laurie Duggan’s first volume since "New and Selected Poems" (1996) is substantially a product of his recent move to Brisbane, containing a large section of poems coloured by references to the city’s subtropical conditions. However, "Mangroves" also brings together varied material that dates from 1988 to 1994, some of which - notably the 'Blue Hills' sequences - has been published elsewhere.

2003-04-01T00:00:00Z McKenzie, Geraldine http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1272 2013-05-13T01:59:11Z 2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Coda. [poem] Authors: McKenzie, Geraldine Description: Poem

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