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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Poem on the Page
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'I had never thought that much about how poems looked until I read Rosemary Huisman’s The Written Poem. The appearance of the poem was something I pretty well took for granted. Maybe that was the heritage of my English puritan background, a distrust of keeping up appearances – the sort of thing that provoked Luke Slattery, when he was editing the now defunct Australian Literary Review, to ask me if I ever ironed my shirts. I explained that I was following the New York crumpled look, redolent of the New York poets of the 1970s; or the Beat look, of the Beat poets of the 1950s and 60s, in their beaten-up and down-beaten aspect more than in the beatitude associations.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 34-37
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