The Book of Falling David McCooey, Perth, Western Australia: Upswell Publishing, 2023, 109pps. Aus$24.99 LIAM GUILAR says David McCooey’s poetry is intelligent, skilful, varied – and plain enjoyable The Book of Falling is David McCooey’s fifth collection of poems, and if nothing else, gives the lie to the invidious myth that people who work on…
Basil Bunting. Photo: National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons licence Letters of Basil Bunting Selected and edited by Alex Niven, Oxford University Press, 2022, £35 LIAM GUILAR welcomes new insights into a little-studied modernist's mind Basil Bunting died in 1985. Despite having been praised as one of the twentieth century’s ‘greatest poets’ critical attention to his…