Cirrus@Austlit

'After the selected emails of Barry Spurr were leaked to the media, his expulsion from academia was violent and abrupt. But his friends didn’t give up on him and put together this volume of essays, studies and poems, edited by the competent hands of one of the most sensitive and erudite academics I have ever met, Dr Catherine Runcie. The book is a tribute to the Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sydney, whose deep knowledge of all things poetic and symbolic gained him the admiration of generations of students and scholars.' (Introduction)