One of the last key volumes from a major Australia poet, reflecting on time he spent in the USA. Rowbotham continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. “Should be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.” — David Gilbey
Poetry
Poems for America
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One of the last key volumes from a major Australia poet, reflecting on time he spent in the USA. Rowbotham continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. “Should be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.” — David Gilbey
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IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Beneath the noisy surface of this poem is a Karantzakis grip on life-and-death struggles of personal life and empire. Rowbotham, an old soldier at 78, offers a grim address for our times when he says, in a poem about the US Civil
War, ‘you make me. I am war’. What’s of interest is a veteran Australian poet using America to further create the wild coherence in himself.
— Barry Hill, The Australian
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
The collection is remarkable that, at his present age, Rowbotham has embarked on new themes, and given us vignettes of another country that are sharp and strange. His continued artistic vigour is inspiring. — Chris Koch
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Rowbotham is one of our most enduring poets. This collection—spare, idiosyncratic, agile, eliptical, immediately alive to the present—is the summing up of a life lived in time and events: depression, childhood, war, the long post-War. A witness to the rock-hard integrity of his voice and vision over more than half a century. — David Malouf
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
The American poems are knotty, sometimes almost fierce, but there is the lyrical quality that becomes, at times, full of echoes of a wealth of resonances, like overtones. The second half of the book rounds off with a series of wonderful elegies. A very strong book. — Tom Shapcott
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
A poet of real significance.—Martin Duwell
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Rowbotham addresses the great themes of human existence with humility, grace and craftsmanship.— Manfred Jurgensen
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Rowbotham should be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.
— David Gilbey