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'An Existential Grammar'

Our Lady of the Trap-Door Spider

Incongruence

Southern Wright Water



LAUNCH SPEECH

Les Wicks' launch of 'An Existential Grammar'
- Sydney, April 26th, 2014





Paul Scully

'Classical, existential, erudite and unassuming at the same time, this assured first collection of a mature poet reads as if it could be another's third or fourth. In the fine Cincinnatus sequence in particular - but radiating out into striking poems that could almost be fragments of a Patrick White-like saga - there is a gratifying clarity and an impressive sense of the past as a means of ordering and focussing what can seem the blur of present being. Scully approaches his subjects with a subtlety and reserve behind which, deeply informing the gaze, lurk extensive experience, powerful feeling.'

David Brooks



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