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four lines east

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Barry Hill, Four Lines East
Signed, limited edition of 250 copies

Barry Hill’s mastery is in full evidence … these poems come to us as revelations of what it means to be a religious poet ... This is essential poetry.

– Paul Kane


… the sort of discipline of the spirit that makes possible the lines of the poem, their precise visualisation, their music, their handling of space as breath … It takes a lifetime of discipline to produce poems like this.

– David Malouf on As We Draw Ourselves,
Adelaide Writers’ Week, 2008

a tight circle

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Brendan Ryan, A Tight Circle
Signed, limited edition of 150 copies

... stunning insights into how we learn from our relations and reconfigure stories and experiences …

– John Kinsella

 


… as real, as rhythmic, as taut as a fence wire you might run through your hand …

– Kevin Brophy

the pallbearer's garden

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A. Frances Johnson, The Pallbearer's Garden
Signed, limited edition of 150 copies

... images and scenarios gather complexity, poem by poem. This a fierce and intimate collection.

– Lisa Gorton

 


These poems make you thrilled to be alive in the twenty-first century.

– Ian Britain

a slant of light

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Paul Kane, A Slant of Light
Signed, limited edition of 200 copies

Sophisticated and rigorous, these poems move with a quiet eloquence.

– Helen Garner

 


... these poems enabled me to see afresh, and to hear afresh, a part of the earth I have come to love so dearly.

– Raimond Gaita