Arts & Letters: Poem
Beachmaster
Clive James
Scanning the face of a crestfallen waveHe sees his life collapsing to a close,A foaming comber racing to its grave.But after that one,...
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Numismatics
Clive James
Merely a planchet waiting to be struck,The poem shapes up but is not a coinUntil, by craft, and then again by luck,He fashions clean...
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John Bryson
Tiptoe, to cast his shadow faras once he could,now readied for the cameraat short notice;speech notes: triumphs of his era;smiting...
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‘Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005’ by Robert Hass
Greg McLaren
Time and Materials, Robert Hass's fifth collection, won the 2007 American National Book Award for poetry. Surprisingly for a poet of...
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Genealogy
Craig Sherborne
I'll be dead and then they'll go through my things,the weak son who never complained when I mocked him,the daughter who wished me...
More ...The Usual
Craig Sherborne
Nose down in the froth of his clover beerthe grey horse sups alone.He ignores a butting calf with its patched coat,and the flitting tarts...
More ...The Nymph Calypso
Clive James
Planning to leave Calypso in the lurch,Odysseus snuck off to build a ship.He found the right-shaped boughs of larch or birch Or spruce, for...
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The Velvet Shackles of a Reputation
Clive James
In Dr Johnson's little novel Rasselas, the Poet tells the Prince about the psychological requirements of a poetic career. The poet,...
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Windows is Shutting Down
Clive James
Windows is shutting down, and grammar are On their last leg. So what am we to do?A letter of complaint go just so far,Proving the only one...
More ...Drought Essay: A Levitation of Land
Les Murray
Haze went from smoke-blue to beigegradually, after midday. The Inland was passing overhigh up, and between the trees.The north hills and...
More ...Drought Essay: Recognising the Derision as Fear
Les Murray
Death gets into the suburbs, but sleekturnover highrise keeps it out of mind and wilderness, wrapped in its own deaths, scarcely...
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