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'Geoff Page's selection of 'classic Australian' poem's's is a brave effort to display the development and achievement of a body or work that will bear comparison with any in the anglosphere. Page also claims to focus on poems that strike him as "unequivocally enjoyable, even if that enjoyment is sometimes hard-won." I doubt that all his readers will entirely agree. The book occupies a space somewhere along the spectrum of middle-school poetry text and teach-yourself poetry-appreciation manual. The same might be said of his 80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now. The structure of each is strikingly similar to Ruth Padel's 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, a concatenation of poems with commentary culled from her UK weekly Independent on Sunday column. Page and Padel are enthusiastic teachers, but the whiff of the classroom is palpable in their methodological rigour and tone.' (Introduction)
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— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , December no. 18 2009;
— Review of 60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page 2009 single work review
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , December no. 18 2009;
— Review of 60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page 2009 single work review
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60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page
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60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page