
Poems In Retrospect / A Selection
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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).
About the Author
Australasian poet of sixteen poetry collections, seven chapbooks, and one memoir. Poems translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. He has travelled extensively. Signed on with the radio ship The Voice of Peace 1540 kHz broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa, Israel in the late 70s. Free-lanced in Australia/New Zealand as production voice, narrator, newsreader, radio producer, columnist, copy and feature writer, etc. Lived in Australia for 20 years. Currently living in NZ. Represented in the following: Writing To The Wire Anthology, edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016; The Australian Prose Poem Anthology, edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, Melbourne University Press (2020); Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, edited by Tracey Slaughter, Massey University Press 2021. Recent poetry collection: Poems In Retrospect/A Selection, Greywacke Press, Canberra, 2025.