AustLit

'The Braziller Series of Australia Poets continues with the acclaimed poet, Bronwyn Lea, deemed "the brightest light to emerge in Australian poetry" in many years (Geoffrey Lehmann, Weekend Australian). Lea's work is a brilliant mapping of the overlapping regions of our sensual, psychic and emotional worlds, presented with a linguistic and intellectual bravura that makes this a captivating collection.' (Publication summary)

'Robert Gray has been hailed as “one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English” (Les Murray). This selection of Gray’s finest poems demonstrates his extraordinary capacity to see the world in luminous detail, rendering it with radiant intensity. Both philosophical and sensuous, this is work of remarkable originality.

'Robert Gray is an award-winning poet, widely known throughout Australia and the rest of the world. This selection is of his finest poems spanning a forty-five year career. He lives in Sydney, Australia.' (Publication summary)

'The third in Braziller's Series of Australian Poets, Judith Beveridge engages the world in ways that open up larger perspectives and deeper understandings. As the critic Clive James notes, Beveridge s work displays unfailing dignity of movement and quiet splendour. Whether in relation to the natural world around us or to our inner world of intellect and emotion, Beveridge s poems call us to account, exalting our capacity for knowledge and insisting upon the pleasures and responsibilities of attentiveness."' (Publication summary)

'Philip Hodgins was the most loved poet of his generation, whose life was cut tragically short. “If he had lived as long as his admired Goethe, he would probably have been Goethe.” – Clive James.

'The fourth book in the Braziller series of Australian poets. Philip Hodgins is unique in his unflinchingly honest and mordant account of country life in Australia. In a vivid and lucid style, his astonishing poems reveal the complexities, depths and urgencies of living at the edge of life and death. Renowned for his sophisticated yet understated craftsmanship, Hodgins writes with subtlety, humor and heartbreaking intensity. Edited and with an introduction by American poet and poetry scholar, Paul Kane.' (Publication summary)