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  • Author:agent Laurie Duggan http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/duggan-laurie
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Selected Poems 1971-2017
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'"Duggan's is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim: you wrote like this about that?" -Alan Wearne, Sydney Morning Herald

'"I think of how Pound defined the image as `that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'; and, still being thoroughly sane back in 1913, he went on to say: `the natural object is always the adequate symbol'. Such an imagist doctrine has always been at the heart of Laurie Duggan's sharp-eyed work, ever since the days when he was at the core of a group who got together at Monash, back in the 1960s." -Chris Wallace-Crabbe

'Duggan's poetry has the virtue that it never `abandons the local'. Like Paul Blackburn-a poet Duggan manifestly admires-he builds his work out of what he finds in, on or about the premises." -Tony Baker, Jacket

'"How ferociously Duggan attends both to the there of the world . . . and the here of writing." -John Latta, Isola di Rifiu' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Exeter, Devon (County),
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Shearsman Books ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 290p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 16 February 2018
      ISBN: 9781848615731

Works about this Work

Laurie Duggan : Homer Street; Selected Poems: 1971 – 2017 Martin Duwell , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;

— Review of Homer Street Laurie Duggan , 2020 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1971-2017 Laurie Duggan , 2018 selected work poetry

'An earlier book, Leaving Here, was built around Laurie Duggan’s move to England in 2006. Homer Street is a kind of counterpart, being based on final poems in England before a return to Australia at the end of 2018. The first of its three sections is a farewell to England in the form of a valedictory poem, fittingly called, for such a visual poet, “A Closing Album” and a set of additions to his English-based series, “Allotments”. This structure (and structure is one of the things I will focus on in this brief review) is repeated in the second section where an initial poem, “Six Notes for John Forbes”, is followed by a set of additions to the Australian equivalent of “Allotments”, “Blue Hills”. The third section is an anthology of poems about painters, “not strictly ekphrastic works” as a note at the end says, but reflecting in their variety of approaches something of Duggan’s larger methods which have always involved a variety of responses to the world itself.' (Introduction)

Dan Disney Reviews Laurie Duggan’s Selected Poems 1971–2017 Dan Disney , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;

— Review of Selected Poems 1971-2017 Laurie Duggan , 2018 selected work poetry

'Laurie Duggan has long been a star within the light-filled firmaments of Australian poetry that first burst into prominence around five decades ago. A so-called ‘Monash poet’, Duggan’s recently published Selected Poems is suffused with images in which he trains an unrelentingly quizzical, reverent eye across apparently mundane terrains...' (Introduction)

Dan Disney Reviews Laurie Duggan’s Selected Poems 1971–2017 Dan Disney , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;

— Review of Selected Poems 1971-2017 Laurie Duggan , 2018 selected work poetry

'Laurie Duggan has long been a star within the light-filled firmaments of Australian poetry that first burst into prominence around five decades ago. A so-called ‘Monash poet’, Duggan’s recently published Selected Poems is suffused with images in which he trains an unrelentingly quizzical, reverent eye across apparently mundane terrains...' (Introduction)

Laurie Duggan : Homer Street; Selected Poems: 1971 – 2017 Martin Duwell , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;

— Review of Homer Street Laurie Duggan , 2020 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1971-2017 Laurie Duggan , 2018 selected work poetry

'An earlier book, Leaving Here, was built around Laurie Duggan’s move to England in 2006. Homer Street is a kind of counterpart, being based on final poems in England before a return to Australia at the end of 2018. The first of its three sections is a farewell to England in the form of a valedictory poem, fittingly called, for such a visual poet, “A Closing Album” and a set of additions to his English-based series, “Allotments”. This structure (and structure is one of the things I will focus on in this brief review) is repeated in the second section where an initial poem, “Six Notes for John Forbes”, is followed by a set of additions to the Australian equivalent of “Allotments”, “Blue Hills”. The third section is an anthology of poems about painters, “not strictly ekphrastic works” as a note at the end says, but reflecting in their variety of approaches something of Duggan’s larger methods which have always involved a variety of responses to the world itself.' (Introduction)

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