Cirrus@Austlit

Editor's Note: 'This is an edited version of part of an essay from Martin Harrison's collection of critical essays [...] The essay mainly concerns metaphor in contemporary Australian poetry and why certain sorts of metaphor seem to enhance the way the reader can identify particular aspects of local experience, visual events, movement, touch, atmosphere and so on. This edited version looks more broadly at the idea of "country", in other words, at a key grounding concept for our local experience of place and the metaphors which apply to it.' (p. 100)