'G & S: Ghazals and Sonnets in Conversation' | ISBN 978 1 763653 092 | 51 pgs | Apr 2025 | $20 (within Australia)
Poetry is sometimes seen as a solitary business – but for centuries
poets have been defying this notion by collaborating with each
other – think of the renga tradition in Japan. Ross Donlon and
Tric O’Heare have invented a unique new collaboration – a
ghazal from him, a sonnet from her, responding to each other.
The connections are sometimes clear from subject, image
or word association, sometimes quite lateral. The result is a
wide-ranging, dual-voiced collection of terrific poems in the
chosen forms.
Mike Ladd