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Counterworlds

David Malouf’s Rapturous Sense of Things
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March 2014, no. 359

Earth Hour by David Malouf

University of Queensland Press, $29.95 hb, 88 pp, 9780702250132

Counterworlds

David Malouf’s Rapturous Sense of Things
by
March 2014, no. 359

In his poem ‘Early Discoveries’, published in the collection Neighbours in a Thicket (1974), Malouf remembers being a child in the garden with his grandfather: ‘Staked tomato-plants are what / he walks among, the apples of paradise. He is eighty.’ Malouf turns eighty this year, and many of the poems in Earth Hour find their place in a garden, ‘lightly / touching the earth’.

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