Within Reach

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Within Reach draws on the unsentimental attentiveness of rural life, where close observation, quiet resilience, and wry humour shape the everyday. Russell Erwin's poems move between the sensuous and the elegiac, capturing love, loss, and the shifting presence of the natural world. Echoes of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, and a formative teacher linger in this deeply grounded and finely tuned collection.

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Russell Erwin is a poet and farmer based in the Southern Tablelands. Within Reach is his sixth collection and his first since Maps of Small Countries (Gininderra Press, 2016). It follows earlier works including Clear Hills, Empty Sky (Polonius Press, 1994), Taken by the Enemy (Molonglo Press, 2000), From Here (Gininderra Press, 2001), and the privately published Notes for an Imminent Arrival (2013).