Views from Mount Brogden and A Dictionary of Minor Poets : Collected Works, Volume 3
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2008
Z1563560
2008
selected work
prose
'This third volume brings together two unique (and typically unclassifiable) additions to John Watson's collected works. For over forty years Watson has been preoccupied with the possibilities of, and delight in, the poetic experience. Here he explores the concepts of the dictionary and the personal diary as ways of realising this delight in tangible form.
'"Views From Mt Brogden" records the reactions of a nineteenth century clergyman and minor poet to the startling landscape of the Australian outback. "A Dictionary of Minor Poets" catalogues fifty or so lesser known twentieth century poets, documenting their vagaries, peccadilloes, tropes and truisms, dead-ends, hopes, aspirations, appearances and disappearances as they gravitate to the notorious Hôtel des Poètes.' (Publisher's blurb)
Erasure Traces : Collected Works, Volume 2
Sydney
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2008
Z1524831
2008
selected work
poetry
This new collection offers three works taken from different periods: ‘At the Onset of Turbulence’ (1989), ‘Frieze’ (2001) and ‘Erasure Traces’ (2006), the last two of which continue the experimental mode of Montale: A Biographical Anthology (Collected Works Volume 1). As in that work, this book invites us into a world of complex connections, both lyrical and humorous, formally innovative and poetically daring.
