Lost Edens. "Other Gravities" by Kevin Gillam and "A Tasmanian Paradise Lost" by Graeme Hetherington [review]
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2003-12
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Edwards, Brian
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Australian Book Review
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Hetherington's poems are black poems in terms of their fixation with dark histories and fascinating compulsions. As the final poem concedes, the investigatory re-imaginings may be bleak but they provide solace, too — a take on history and identity that is communal and personal. It is a powerful collection. Kevin Gillam’s "Other Gravities" presents a very different mode of writing. In these short poems, with predominantly short-line forms, he offers glimpses. This book, too, allows the varieties of Eden lost.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, In The Shadow of Van Diemen's Land, Poetry, Brian Edwards, west coast of Tasmania, Eden after the fall, Caliban, Hell's Gates
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Edwards, Brian 2003. Lost Edens. "Other Gravities" by Kevin Gillam and "A Tasmanian Paradise Lost" by Graeme Hetherington. 'Australian Book Review', No 257, December, 56-57.