Suggests that Kim Scott’s novel, That Deadman Dance, is a work deeply preoccupied with its position as a fiction and with its relation to history, to the point that it becomes a central focus of the narrative.
Presents a slightly edited version of the Preface to John Burbidge’s biography of Gerald Glaskin, Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin (MUP, 2014), followed by his brief resume of Glaskin’s published work.
Argues that John Tranter’s long poem, ‘The Anaglyph,’ published as part of his Starlight collection in 2010, is both an experimental work and tribute to pre-eminent American poet, John Ashbery, and the twentieth-century avant-garde traditions to which Ashbery belongs.
