Abstract
Tony Frazer is one of the great poetry editors of our time. This festschrift is a tribute to him on his 64th birthday. It contains more than 200 contributions from poets whose writing he has published since 1981 under his imprints Shearsman Books and Shearsman Magazine, as well as from friends and well-wishers. Together, these present a unique collective tribute not only to Tony’s achievement as the publisher of more than 300 writers, but as a friend, as a man. In its variety and richness, this unusual anthology bears witness to the far-sightedness, adventurousness, eclecticism and dedication of Tony’s vision for poetry and his tireless pursuit of the new, the original and the excellent. First few lines of Peter’s poem: “The plane came in limping down the runway. | Arriving for the banquet of the skeletons, | ’Amoroso (his woven bag filled | with parchments, sonnets and sonatas, the plumed | articulation of a wild bird’s soaring) crosses | the tarmac, glides through | the trembling doors: fragrant bursts | of pine forest, of dark earth and rising ocean mist, ooze | from his bones…”
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Australia |
Publisher | A Festschrift for Tony Frazer |
Size | 1 poem |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Australian poetry