From the blurb:
Belonging to a generation of poets for whom Australia is at last the natural, given world of assumption and reference, Dennis Haskell is a poet of our wide, suburban spaces and the tentative, metaphysical questings which are at home there. Holding on to the tangible and ordinary, he reaches out for larger meaning in terms of an informed honesty that is peculiarly his own. His style is uncompromisingly that of a sensitive, modern mind which feels “incomplete and nagged at” by larger dimensions. At the same time, he is not a clumsy literalist, and to take his unobtrusively imaginative fictions as some sort of “confessional” poetry would be to miss the point crucially. This is an impressive first collection by a quietly experimental poet of very real promise.
Contents: Listening at Night
Excerpt: “The Basis of all Knowledge”
