Do we read poetry for a quick therapeutic fix or seek in its complexities something as overworked, stressed and broken as we are? Both, of course – so here are five Australian poetry collections to add to your reading list
As sure as you are reading this article, language is all around us. If every word spoken, read, texted, heard or written on a single day in Australia were a drop of water we would find ourselves in a pool deeper than the Mariana Trench. How are we to swim? How should we make our way in this vast body of language?
Poetry offers us the ability to splash, swim, frolic and dive. Poetry should not simply be thought of as good prose with line breaks, rhymes with beautiful images, or learned sayings about roses. Conservative and avant-garde poets agree that poetry is essentially metaphoric. It’s about approaching a place but never arriving, suggesting but not saying, showing but not telling.
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