Striated Tears. "Blood and Old Belief" by Paul Hetherington. [review]

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2003-10
Authors
Pierce, Peter
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Australian Book Review
Abstract
The scene of Paul Hetherington's ‘verse novel’, "Blood and Old Belief", is established in the opening stanza. From the start, we are in the hands of a skilled verse practitioner for whom ‘conservative’ metrical forms are both the bedrock and the supple medium of the story that he tells.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, poetry
Citation
Pierce, Peter 2003. Striated Tears. Review of "Blood and Old Belief" by Paul Hetherington. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 59.