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Patrick Brandon
B. 1965
An exciting new voice ... his poems are carefully crafted and have a catholic appeal ... there is something painterly in how Brandon guides you through his work, like a diagonal guiding the eye. - Poetry London
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Judith Beveridge
B. 1956
One of Australia's most gifted poets of both the natural and the human world.
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Joanne Burns
B. 1945
The combination of satiric spirit and exuberant style - half appalled, half-enchanted - is the outstanding characteristic of burns's poetry - Australian Book Review
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Peter Boyle
B. 1951
Paradoxes interest me and the desire for beauty, for meaning, for whatever might counterbalance our commodified world... (Peter Boyle)
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Dan Burt
B. 1942
The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes
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Louise Bogan
B. 1897 D. 1970
Louise Bogan's art is compactness compacted. Emotion with her, as she has said of certain fiction, is 'itself form, the kernel which builds outward form from inward intensity.' Marianne Moore
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Hilaire Belloc
B. 1870 D. 1953
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc
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Edmund Blunden
B. 1896 D. 1974
And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,/Young, heroic, mild;/And some incurable, twisted,/Shrieking, dumb, defiled. - 'Can You Remember?, Edmund Blunden