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playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight

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sensual mystic his champions have always known he was' Sunday Telegraph

interweaving each with all to create a compelling vision of a world in motion and a consciousness alive to change – as spectral voices and still-living presences seep “into the open echo-chamber / of poetry”

Farley is also interested as ever in the peripheral and marginal and no-man’s-lands – the lives of others

The Pastoraclasm by John Kinsella Glyn Maxwell playful style that levels theDeparting from Virgils Eclogues, The Pastoraclasm is an urgent environmental address to humans, nature and vegetable gardens. During pandemic lockdowns, poet John Kinsella realised that he would have to garden not because he enjoys it but because his family, who live in the bush, would need whatever he could grow. Fierce summers, fire danger, and only having access to rainwater tank water refusing to drain the aquifer further by using one of the two