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Has there been an Australian poet as troubadourish and piratical as Duncan Hose? The work is a response to an imaginary Auden’s (or someone’s) pronouncement that poetry be playful or drunken speech, linguistically badly behaved – more sweet-sounding than anything I can think of in Australian English.
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James Jiang Reviews Duncan Hose’s The Jewelled Shillelagh
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of The Jewelled Shillelagh 2019 selected work poetry'‘HELLO FAERE CUNTIES!’ we are hailed in the opening lines of this rough-and-tumble volume, which swings between the campy and the choleric, the vatic and the venereal. The voice is sometimes that of a feral troubadour with pretensions to the lordly libertinism of Rochester (that ‘witty equivoque’):...' (Introduction)
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James Jiang Reviews Duncan Hose’s The Jewelled Shillelagh
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of The Jewelled Shillelagh 2019 selected work poetry'‘HELLO FAERE CUNTIES!’ we are hailed in the opening lines of this rough-and-tumble volume, which swings between the campy and the choleric, the vatic and the venereal. The voice is sometimes that of a feral troubadour with pretensions to the lordly libertinism of Rochester (that ‘witty equivoque’):...' (Introduction)
