But a good deal of Australian poetry is accessible. For example, David Malouf begins a poem with a familiar vision of urban life: A city of too much glass; too many walls Furthermore, Australian ...

Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), like Judith Wright, holds a celebrated place in Australian poetry and ... overtly to Harwood's real-life mother. This poem is embraced as the closest Harwood comes ...

If poetry was a physical ailment it would more likely be hay fever: sharp, serial, sometimes colourful, not life-threatening ... fact that far from being ill, "Australian poetry has never ...

It was good to re-encounter W.T. Goodge's eight-line classic Life, even though its obscure ... a great excuse to revisit some outstanding Australian poems -- and a few outstandingly bad ones.

However, three Australian poets spring to mind whose ... So . . . what is poetry? The best poems are those fragments of life, perhaps just flickerings of the imagination, that Koreeda's characters ...