In the form of a letter to a London plutocrat and a letter to a Chinese scholar concerning the last 50 years of the second millennium AD, Letters and Characters is the fifth volume of poetry by this acclaimed Australian poet.

Selwyn Pritchard has been widely published throughout the English speaking world. In recent years he has been Professor of Literature at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, and has been awarded a Rome residency fellowship by the Australia Council.

"Selwyn Pritchard's poems...seem to me to have the right, out of wit and invention, to rebuke all non-combative ameliorists like myself."

- Peter Porter

Pritchard...is a learned man who cries from the heart in lines that ring and sting and stay."

- Stanley Middleton

"You pick it up, you get in there, you can't put it down."

- Peter Finch, Planet