Hallucination

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The late Les Murray described Jamie Grants work as poems of scrupulous craftsmanship and unlinking intelligence, poems which pay acute attention to the contours of experience.

This new collection, which is divided into five discrete sections, focuses that attention on the twenty-first century world, its office buildings and hospitals, motorways and wind farms, while also looking back to characters and events from earlier times. There are also observations of Australias natural environment, its forests, farms, birds and animals. The last of the five sections is a series of versified thumbnail sketches of historical figures whose achievements helped to shape the present age. And there is even an elegy for Les Murray among the other verses.

Author Bio

Jamie Grant was born in Melbourne, and now lives in Sydney. He has worked in advertising, publishing, bookselling, teaching, proofreading, and in newspaper and magazine journalism. Hallucination is the tenth collection of his poetry to be published, if one counts two Selected volumes. He has also edited six anthologies, including One Hundred Australian Poems You Need to Know and Lasting Lines, both published by Hardie Grant.