Clearing the Mirror Slightly From Your Own Favoured Self-Image

Abstract

Martin Duwell,ed. A Possible Contemporary Poetry: interviews with thirteen poets from the New Australian Poetry. St Lucia: Makar Press, 1982. $8.95 paper, $15.95 cased. 160 pp. 

This collection of interviews is presented as a companion volume to John Tranter's anthology, The New Australian Poetry (Makar Press, 1979). In his short introduction, Martin Duwell, as editor and interviewer, offers the suggestion that the publication is in the nature of an interim report providing an insight into some of the "major poets" of the "New Australian Poetry". Six of the fifteen interviews have already appeared in previous issues of Makar (Rae Desmond Jones, John Tranter, Hemmensley, Krausmann). The other poets interviewed are Ken Taylor, Roberts, Forbes, Duggan, Scott, Maiden, Adamson, Wearne and Martin Johnston.