Homer Street

Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.

Homer Street begins with poems written during Duggan's last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others penned during a visit to Australia in 2016 and after his return in October 2018. They contribute to two on-going sequences, Allotments, and Blue Hills, which alludes to the long-running domestic radio serial of the same name.

These are composed of the brief haiku-like poems that Duggan has made his own: impressions, mysterious conjunctions, oddities and contradictions, the small details that express large forces, as seen in his observations of the landscape, the weather, domestic and suburban settings.

In the final section, Afterimages, Duggan offers descriptions of paintings and comments on artists, sometimes imagining what a particular artist might have done. However, the real point is to create poems that stand like art works in their own right.