Late Night Shopping

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These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such as Ned Kelly and Charles Darwin. Her sequence on Ned Kelly (originally published in an illustrated limited edition) is reproduced here for a wider readership.- ...(She) is a born poet...From the start her poems were a startling mix of the intricate and the basic...her earlier work has been pared back for the acerbic lucidity of Late Night Shopping. These are rare poems that cohere in a way that makes this book, layer by layer, a kind of prayer and a testament to the power of reality: it will repay your reading over and over.

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Rhyll McMaster's poetry was published in The Bulletin while she was still a schoolgirl. Her work has won acclaim and awards including the C.J. Dennis Prize (Victorian Premier's Awards), and she has twice won the Grace Leven Prize. Her poems have been broadcast on national radio and television. She adapted poems from On My Empty Feet as a radio play for the ABC, broadcast twice due to popular demand. She has staged her poetry in a performance piece with a singer and a four-piece rock band. Her poetry and prose are interconnected, with many phrases from her poems re-appearing as prose in her award-winning first novel, Feather Man.