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Titles in Print...

Isolated States | Along These Lines | Letters and Characters | I Wanted to Throw Your Things Out on the Lawn
In the Shadow of Van Diemen's Land | Creative Parlance | In the Church of Latter Day Consumers
Lozenge | Being Determined | Home Town Burial | My life to Live | Legend | Too Much Happens
Ravo | High in the Pawpaw Tree | The Yugoslav Women and their Pickled Herrings
A Letter to Egon Kisch

In the Church of Latter Day Consumers
by
Bruce Roberts

80 pp pb
ISBN: 0 646 19746 0
RRP $14.95

This is a powerful collection of poems which goes to the heart and the guts of contemporary society, dealing with a range of subjects from East Timor to kids in detention. Roberts's compassion for his fellow humans, his concern for the natural environment and his contempt for hypocrisy and abuse shine through, but these poems are in no way the whinges of a bleeding heart. Savage wit, a keen eye and ear for detail and the ability to focus on the universal without losing sight of the particular, turn love and anger, admiration and disgust into art.

"These are robust poems that sustain their hard-hitting tone well, but still manage to have their moments of sensitive definition..."

- Imago

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