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'Dennis Greene's poetry is meditative, wry and questing, with surprising eruptions of strangeness. It is built deftly and surely, grounded in subtleties and nuances of crafting and structuring; individual poems gather together as a greater tonal architecture. Literary shades such as Yeats, Wilfred Owen and Blake provide points of engagement or departure; as do figures like Magellan, Churchill, Darwin. Shakespeare murmurs ever-present in the wings.
'With curiosity and insistency Greene finds poems hidden in the light and shade of the everyday - in husband and father-hood, domesticity, the West Australian landscape. With quirky narratives both mythic and quotidian, moving discoveries, messages in bottles, he might be one of the explorers he writes about, returned but taking us via tellings and re-tellings to the edge of the mapped, the known, for shiver-and-goosebump glimpses of 'dragons'. ' (Publication summary)
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To be launched at Perth Writers Festival (event 109), Sunday 22 Feb, from 4-5pm in the Tropical Grove, UWA.
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Poetic Landscapes
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)
— Review of The Hazards 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians 2015 selected work poetry
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Poetic Landscapes
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)
— Review of The Hazards 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians 2015 selected work poetry