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'This definitive selection of Robert Gray’s poems reveals him to be the master imagist with a philosophical depth that challenges and surprises by turns. This collection contains original drawings by the author.' (Publication summary)
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Poetic Choreography : A Further Selected Poems from Robert Gray
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 446 2022; (p. 46-47)
— Review of Rain Towards Morning : Selected Poems 2022 selected work poetry'According to his author’s note, Rain Towards Morning is ‘a definitive book’ of the poems Robert Gray wishes to preserve. Nameless Earth (Carcanet, 2006) is the most generously represented of Gray’s previous eight books. This is followed by his mid-career volume Piano (1988) in which he first began to publish a range of poetry with tight rhyme schemes and controlled rhythms. More than a third of the poems Gray has chosen for Rain Towards Morning are these formal or semi-formal compositions, indicating that he wishes to showcase this aspect of his work. Fewer poems have been chosen from his free verse books Grass Script (1978), The Skylight (1983) and Afterimages (2002), arguably his best books.'(Introduction)
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Poetic Choreography : A Further Selected Poems from Robert Gray
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 446 2022; (p. 46-47)
— Review of Rain Towards Morning : Selected Poems 2022 selected work poetry'According to his author’s note, Rain Towards Morning is ‘a definitive book’ of the poems Robert Gray wishes to preserve. Nameless Earth (Carcanet, 2006) is the most generously represented of Gray’s previous eight books. This is followed by his mid-career volume Piano (1988) in which he first began to publish a range of poetry with tight rhyme schemes and controlled rhythms. More than a third of the poems Gray has chosen for Rain Towards Morning are these formal or semi-formal compositions, indicating that he wishes to showcase this aspect of his work. Fewer poems have been chosen from his free verse books Grass Script (1978), The Skylight (1983) and Afterimages (2002), arguably his best books.'(Introduction)
