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Australia’s Poet
The Australian poet Les A. Murray (1938–2019) was born in Nabiac on the north coast of New South Wales. He deeply loved this part of the country all his...
Prayer
It’s not too late, Dark One, For you to come And have me close And stay an hour or two, It’s not too late at all For you to...
You
You come to me in thick old roots of night While trucks are changing gears, although you kiss Like a slack orchid tongue in Cairns, and I Can’t make...
Poetics and Power
A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659, John Milton published A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes ....
