Two Poets

Two Poets contains exciting new collections by leading Western Australian poets Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam, with an introduction by poet and critic Lisa Gorton. Both Lansdown and Gillam have distinctive voices but share a strong sense of place, and concern with craft. In her introduction, poet and critic Lisa Gorton describes their approaches to style:
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‘Over nearly forty years, Lansdown has worked at [the] art of precision … these poems show how an aesthetic of exact detail and subtle craft has shaped his poetic idiom – has become the very language of his craft.’
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‘Gillam’s poems set him in the midst of time, in the present participle, and in the frame … his poems attend not to the still moment, but to the haphazard and open-ended experience of time … Gillam’s is a various and wide-ranging art.’