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Kevin Hart Kevin Hart i(A18721 works by)
Born: Established: 1954 Essex,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1966 Departed from Australia: 2002
Heritage: English
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1 Interview New Directions Kevin Hart , David Campbell , single work
1 Poem (To Be Set in Llama Font) i "After divorce, I thought I’d have a pet.", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 December 2023; (p. 17)
1 Grandfather i "“The suffering of wood,” you always sighed,", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 67 no. 11 2023; (p. 7)
1 Silence i "Just listen for a breath between two words", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 67 no. 11 2023; (p. 7)
1 The War Years i "Back then, the war had never really stopped.", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , 1 July vol. 67 no. 7/8 2023; (p. 71)
1 Eight Poems i "Surprised by first snow!", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , 1 July vol. 67 no. 7/8 2023; (p. 31)
1 Reading Blanchot at Neutral Bay i "No shit we’re off low slung a car that sings", Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;
1 The Tune Of ‘Didn’t It Rain, Children?’ Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 13 2023; (p. 89)
1 To the Tune of ‘Swing That Thing’ Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 13 2023; (p. 89)
1 The Secret History Kevin Hart , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 13 2023; (p. 89)
1 A Poem by Kevin John Hart i "Dissolving hills", Kevin Hart , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Forty South Tasmania (Online) 2022;
1 A Kindness i "‘…but what you’ve always feared, the utter loss", Kevin Hart , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , Autumn no. 9 2022; (p. 85)
1 Night Letters i "At night I flick my lamp and write to her.", Kevin Hart , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , Autumn no. 9 2022; (p. 84)
1 To The Tune Of “Nine Below Zero” i "There is a silence at the back of words", Kevin Hart , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , December vol. 40 no. 4 2021; (p. 24)
1 The Last Carthusian i "“As bridegrooms to their marriage” they went west,", Kevin Hart , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 15)
1 To The Tune Of “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground” i "More snowflakes falling now than stars I’ve seen", Kevin Hart , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 14)
1 Kevin Hart Reviews The Strangest Place by Stephen Edgar Kevin Hart , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;

— Review of The Strangest Place : New and Selected Poems Stephen Edgar , 2020 selected work poetry

'Poetry always involves a delicate negotiation between craft and art. Craft can easily be misunderstood as a set of skills completely external to what is being written. Yet a poet shows craft by moving confidently within the work developing on the page. Often, when one looks at an intricately rhymed stanza, perhaps one with five, six or seven lines of varying length, such as Stephen Edgar favors, one might be tempted to think that the work has been composed, even revised, in the poet’s mind and then set down on the page. There are such compositions, some of them admirable, and examples can be found in volumes of minor seventeenth-century verse. The effect is known as “Ciceronian”: the style is marked by balance, antitheses, and repetition; it was developed to a high pitch in prose, not verse. Nothing could be further from Edgar’s characteristic way of writing, which is usually “Anti-Ciceronian.” Here sentences unfold naturally rather than exhibit a resolved formal beauty, and often the style is marked by asymmetric constructions. The poem shows a mind thinking as it progresses from stanza to stanza.'  (Introduction)

1 A Kindness i ""… but what you've always feared, the utter loss", Kevin Hart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 34 no. 2 2020; (p. 380)
1 To The Tune Of ‘Fahet Uns Die Füchse’ Kevin Hart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 3 2020; (p. 87)
1 To The Tune Of ‘On The Road Somewhere' Kevin Hart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 3 2020; (p. 86)
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