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Stephen Edgar
B. 1951
Stephen Edgar (b. 1951) has been described by Clive James as standing out “among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft, a limitless wealth of cultural reference and an unmatched ability to make science a living subject for…
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Incident at Grantley Manor - Stephen Edgar
Seven o’clock, the time set in his mind Like herbs displayed in aspic, as the chimes Were striking. Then the squeaking of his shoes’ Black leather tread, pacing those measures down The first-floor hall, where sunset’s apricot Was oozing…
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Lulled in a nook of North West Bay, The water swells against the sand, Hardly more liquid than Venetian glass, In which clear surface, just a little way From shore, some four or five petite yachts pass With languid…
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How formal and polite, How grave they look, burdened with earnest thoughts, In all these set-up sepia stills, Almost as if, embarrassed and contrite To be caught practising their fatal skills, They’d stepped aside from slaughter for these other…
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Hardly a feature in the evening sky As yet-near the horizon the cold glow Of rose and mauve which, as you look on high, Deepens to Giotto’s dream of indigo. Hardly a star as yet. And then that frail…
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Anthony Lawrence
B. 1957
Anthony Lawrence was born in 1957 in Tamworth. He left school early, taking up work as a Jackeroo, going on to work as a landscape gardener, fisherman and truck driver. Later he studied primary school teaching and for while taught…