Hallucination

The late Les Murray described Jamie Grant�_Ts work as �_opoems of scrupulous craftsmanship and unlinking intelligence, poems which pay acute attention to the contours of experience.�__ This new collection, which is divided into five discrete sections, focuses that attention on the twenty-first century world, its office buildings and hospitals, motorways and wind farms, while also looking back to characters and events from earlier times.A�There are also observations of Australia�_Ts natural environment, its forests, farms, birds and animals. The last of the five sections is a series of versified thumbnail sketches of historical figures whose achievements helped to shape the present age. And there is even an elegy for Les Murray among the other verses.