Adjacent Worlds A Literary Life of Bruce Dawe by K. L. Goodwin

Reading a Bruce Dawe poem is like listening to a yarn in the local pub. It is chatty, friendly, and amusing. But Dawe's poems are not just updated bush ballads or bar-room narratives. they are driven by a deeply felt sense of how hard it is to understand the world, how insecure our grasp on reality is, how easily we can be deceived about ourselves. In Adjacent worlds Ken Goodwin unfolds the philosophy that informs all Bruce Dawe's work, exploring each volume of poetry as well as the short stories and unpublished plays. Letters, conversations, and addresses are used to relate life, personality, and writing.

ISBN: 9780582873643