1989

The Complete Book of Australian Verse
By John Clarke

Allen and Unwin/Haynes

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of this book. This collection, which has manifest itself as if from nowhere, will have its reverberation wherever Australian letters are seriously read. It is as if poetry, having lost its Elgin marbles, has now found them. Curricula will be overturned, existing library holdings called into question and, I fear, distinguished reputations will topple. Even …

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