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Poetry
by Gerard Windsor
November 1989, no. 116

Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy

Collins/Angus & Robertson, $24.95 hb, 167 pp, 0-207-16318-9

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The current literary enterprise of this country is greatly indebted to Peter Goldsworthy. Yet his name is not one of those that trip off the reflex tongues of journalists, and not only journalists. He has only recently started to appear in the anthologies. He is granted all of two lines in Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman’s jerky traverse of our recent fiction. Yet his accomplishment in a diversity of genres is unique.

 


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Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy

Collins/Angus & Robertson, $24.95 hb, 167 pp, 0-207-16318-9

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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