Stephen Edgar


In Stephen Edgar’s new poetry collection Ghosts of Paradise three clusters of 14 poems, each a precisely sculpted jewel, are threaded together in precise sequence to create a dazzling array of people, places and moments in time. The title poem is ‘based on the fancy that in the distant future humanity may have evolved to the point where it is no longer entirely organic, or indeed corporeal’. First ghost among equals in Edgar’s paradise is WB Yeats, ‘waving his arms and shouting at the trees’. Then Adamson, Barthes, Browne, Dickinson, Disraeli and other wraiths from the pantheon. Sonnets and other traditional forms entwine with a rich panoply of characteristically original metrical conceits so cunningly employed that it is only after re-reading and reflection that the subtle structure declares itself.

Pitt Street Poetry is proud to welcome Stephen Edgar to its roster of Australian poets with this new collection.

Join us as at Gleebooks as Sarah Day launches Ghosts of Paradise on Wednesday 29th November at 6.00pm. RSVP here

Gleebooks, Old Glebe Post Office, cnr Glebe Point Rd and St John’s Rd, Glebe

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Pitt Street Poetry was founded by Linsay and John Knight in 2012 as an imprint of the boutique publishing company Entirely Beautiful Books
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Our Sydney-based poetry imprint uses a judicious mix of traditional and contemporary technologies to publish reprints of classic Australian poetry and a selective new list, which now includes poets from Australia, the UK and the USA. Learn more.

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PSP welcomes distinguished poet Stephen Edgar

Pitt Street Poetry is proud to welcome Stephen Edgar to its roster of Australian poets with this new collection.   His new book Ghosts of Paradise will be launched by Sarah Day at 6pm on 29th November at Gleebooks. Their new temporary address, the Old Glebe Post Office, cnr Glebe Point Rd and St John’s Rd, […]

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Jean Kent @ NWF2023

A huge congratulations to Jean Kent on the successful launch of her latest anthology The Shadow Box at the Newcastle Writers Festival on Sunday 2nd April. Hosted by John Foulcher. #NWF2023 #poetrybook #newpoetry  #poetryreading #pittstreet poetry #jeankentpoet

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Successful Sydney launch for Sarah Day

Warm thanks to Dan Jordon and the team at Roaring Stories, Balmain, for hosting another landmark PSP event. At least seven of Australia’s finest poets (not to mention at least one legendary novelist) were in the room, so the Q+A was on the stratospheric side. Congratulations Sarah on your new collection Slack Tide, with thanks […]

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