Secular Psalms (paperback)
Paperback B format 128 x 198 mm. 78 pages. Full colour cover.
ISBN 978-1-922776-26-6.
Price: A$28.00
Reading Secular Psalms, his twenty fourth collection, acolytes will rejoice to revisit that heady mix of wisdom, comedy, historical nous and political grit, served up with that distinctive turn of phrase which can capture the moment with a knowing grin:
Australian lies are better kept
preserved in sepia,
that sentimental reddish brown
As a rusted-on secularist who somehow continues to harbour a soft spot for unseen spiritual realms, what other poet is better placed to offer Aussie readers a hymnal of their own, bespoke contemporary psalms to accompany our everyday rituals?
If souls exist and need repair
then maybe this uncertain one
Iies in its steady care