Peter Kirkpatrick

How Australian poetry has evolved throughout time Just over a century ago, poetry was all the rage in Australia. Newspapers and magazines published it, entertainers and elocutionists performed it on stages across the country, and ordinary Australians recited it in schools, local halls, and suburban parlours. Yet this communal experience of poetry has now largely disappeared. In The Wild Reciter,...

The Hard Word is the second collection from this respected and influential critic and teacher. The poems contain his trademark conversational tone combined with vivid wit and are the distillation of 12 years of poetry.