Time and Motion: New and Selected Poems

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Julian Croft's first poems were published in Australian Letters in 1962, and since then he has published five volumes of poetry. This volume is a selection from those books, together with poems from the last fifteen years. His poetry has been influenced by the Anglo-Welsh poet T. H. Jones and the empirical philosophy of John Anderson, together with the traditions of mid-twentieth-century Australian poetry. As the title suggest, his themes are mediations on the physical reality of life and the vagaries of human emotions. He has also published several novels.

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Julian Croft was first published by Max Harris and Geoffrey Dutton in 1962 and since then has published four volumes of poetry, two novels, one of which was long listed for the Miles Franklin award, and a wide range of literary criticism. His poetry been widely anthologised and broadcast, including a long poem in the form of a radio feature by the ABC. He has also written for the stage. He initially trained in film at the Commonwealth Film Unit, but spent most of his working life as an academic in Africa, Europe and Australia. In 1978, along with three others, he founded the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, which remains the major academic body promoting the nation's literature. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of New England. His volume of poems Breakfasts in Shanghai (Angus & Robertson, 1985), won the Asia-Pacific Section of the British Airways Prize in 1986). Many of his poems are about Newcastle NSW where he grew up and where his family have lived since the early nineteenth century.