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'If, as has been said, Sant is "an important, innovative poet" with a "penetrating eye for the hidden geometries of meaning" it is because, whatever his subject, the vision it draws out of him is there to be his and the subject, like the insight, has come as naturally to him as leaves are to trees.' - Elizabeth Knottenbelt, Agenda
'Andrew Sant writes intellectually compelling and formally taut poems ... made possible when an exceptional facility with language collides with everyday subjects.' - Brian Henry, Poetry Nation Review
'Sant's accomplished, cosmopolitan style gains from repeated exposure. "Pleasure" has been a word much trivialised of late when talking about poetry, but Sant's poems provide that all-too-rare commodity.' - Nicholas Birns, Verse
'In what is now a significant body of work we should see Andrew Sant, in this new book, in its approachable eloquence and its formal and musical intelligence as, in his phrase, a new "passport into immersion". - Adam Phillips, The Guardian' (Publication summary)
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Drambuies of Poetry : A Well-turned Selection
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 47)
— Review of Near the Border : New and Selected Poems 2023 selected work poetry'Andrew Sant is a substantial yet somewhat elusive figure in contemporary Australian poetry. Born in London, he arrived in Melbourne with his parents at age twelve in 1962. Over the years, he has published at least eleven collections, co-founded the literary magazine Island, and been, for a time, a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. More recently, Sant has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, but he clearly retains links with Australia, particularly Tasmania, where he first became known as a poet.'(Introduction)
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Drambuies of Poetry : A Well-turned Selection
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 47)
— Review of Near the Border : New and Selected Poems 2023 selected work poetry'Andrew Sant is a substantial yet somewhat elusive figure in contemporary Australian poetry. Born in London, he arrived in Melbourne with his parents at age twelve in 1962. Over the years, he has published at least eleven collections, co-founded the literary magazine Island, and been, for a time, a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. More recently, Sant has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, but he clearly retains links with Australia, particularly Tasmania, where he first became known as a poet.'(Introduction)
