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Geoffrey Lehmann
B. 1940
Poetry is our human love of metaphor. We see one thing and think something else - 'Travels in Peru', Geoffrey Lehmann
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Geoff Page
B. 1940
I'd feel the need for / tighter turns, / a tiredness with the / larger flourish - from 'I think I could turn awhile'
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Kris Hemensley
B. 1946
It's an existential act, it's vocational, a necessity, a way of working things out.
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Anthony Lawrence
B. 1957
I trust my imagination and love of language to get me there. Anthony Lawrence
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe
B. 1934
All the choir of stars and panoply of heaven / Gaze down on our pygmy web. - from The Universe Looks Down, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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Jan Owen
B. 1940
Nature is Owen's alembic. She writes with delicacy and strength, passion and intellect. - David Gilbey, Australian Book Review
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Fay Zwicky
B. 1933 D. 2017
Be precise, said wise Wei T'ai, / about the thing / but reticent / about the feeling. - from 'Poems and Things'
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Caroline Caddy
B. 1944
Always use a well sharpened pencil / followed by a good eraser. / Watch the white emerge. - Caroline Caddy, 'Editing the Moon'
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Mark Tredinnick
B. 1962
Mark Tredinnick's poetry is remarkable for the way in which it bears astute witness to the beauty and vulnerability of both landscape and our place within it. - Judith Beveridge
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Susan Hampton
B. 1949
Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence