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‘With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadness for humanity’s follies.’ - Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers

‘Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative feeling for language.’ - Geoffrey Lehmann, The Bulletin

‘...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are directed f...