It is hard to think of any major Australian poet, living or dead, whose work has been as overtly political as that of Les Murray…
Examines one of Slessor’s central preoccupations—his fascination with drowning—and its significance in Slessor’s work.
At one point in his 1991 collection Orpheus, A.D. Hope wondered if poems might have an afterlife, lingering in the skull of some dead…
The most noticeable thing about Foulcher's work is that it is decisively social. His poems are full of people—not shadowy figures meant to represent…