WEST AUSTRALIAN POETRY

This volume collects all of Fay Zwicky’s poetry, including previously uncollected and unpublished poems. It reveals an erudite, passionate, and highly inventive poet, whose consummate control of her craft places her at the summit of Australian poetry.

Zwicky is one of the world’s finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the personal encounter with the weight of history and the obligation to declare a position. – JOHN KINSELLA

In her poetry, Zwicky, the ex-concert pianist, technically adroit, dramatic and profoundly serious, is there alongside the joker, the edgy ironist making wry asides against the world, patriarchy and herself. Her formal poems sit easily beside her mostly short-lined, tightly wrought free verse. Her cadences are a delight. – KATHERINE GALLAGHER

Zwicky’s poems deal with such over-whelming intimations of mortalityand much more than intimationswhile striving for and attaining a breathtaking authority and stubborn subjectivity of voice. – LYN MCCREDDEN

She has her eye on all creation. – GEOFFREY DUTTON

• xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm #210324 (Pristine except for faint corner crease to cover.)