Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's and most recently The Aesthetics

and most recently The Aesthetics of Creation and Song of the Night

including Inexorable Weather (UK: Arc

publishing her work in a Burmese newspapers and journals based in exile

which Stuart Cooke has rendered into English with sensitivity and sparkle

me ‘n’ me trumpet (Vagabond 2011)

Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's and most recently The AestheticsStarting At Basheers represents in part a determined tightening up of the language and sentiment brought to the authors work. In this book the author responds to growing tensions and growing animosities felt in Australian society: bleakly reductivist withdrawals of sympathy, and of automatic goodwill, are tested, examined and worked around. The poems have unusual virtues in this respect: a kind of realism in dealing with ideas, an exciting openness to