Poems In Retrospect / A Selection

Poems In Retrospect: A Selection by the Australasian poet, Stephen Oliver, presents a diverse range of philosophic, contemplative, and metaphysical work published over a span of five decades. Here are poems of heightened imagery, perceptual depth, and assured technical proficiency by ‘a master of his craft.’

Poems In Retrospect: A Selection brings together work from & Henwise (1975), interviews (1978), Earthbound Mirrors (1984), Islands of Wilderness—A Romance (1996), Unmanned (1999), Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 (2001), Ballads, Satire & Salt: A Book of Diversions (2003), Deadly Pollen (2003), Either Side The Horizon (2005), Harmonic (2008), Intercolonial (2013), GONE: Satirical Poems: New & Selected (2016), Luxembourg (2018), The Song Of Globule/80 Sonnets (2020), Cranial Bunker (2023).