An Interview with Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Discusses Shapcott's poetry as 'intimations', 'especially concerned with intimating (which can be a way of avoiding closeness), intimacy and hearing intimations (often, of course, of…

Shapcott discusses his career, approach to poetry, and his work's relationship to Australian literary cultures.

Vivian Smith's poetry occupies an ambiguous position in Australian literature: it is highly regarded, but intermittently discussed. Perhaps some critics continue to find Smith's formalism…

Among poetic forms, the elegy has best survived the twentieth century's antiformalist thrust. However, as Jahan Ramazani demonstrates in Poetry of Mourning, modern elegy…