| 2001-2003 © |
| Books |
| Books |
| Academic, writers' and publishing sites, including I.C. for L.L. |
| Poet, Editor, Author, university teacher and Adjunct Assoc. Professor of English |
| Poems from three collections |
| Spring Burning Lovesongs, Lovescenes Sacrificing the Leaves |
| Article on John Kinsella Poetry & Art |
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| Spring Burning - Folio (Salt) Phillips' meditative, quietly assertive poems have a balance of joy and shadows, certainty and uncertainty, which points to an alert contemporary sensibility. Dennis Haskell Moves very naturally and inevitably, saying plenty en route. Fay Zwicky Phillips' best poems are elemental, with thick strokes of colour and solid, touchable objects. S.K. Kelen |
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| Sacrifing the Leaves - (Amarin Publishing) It may be true that only in Australia some vestiges of human history can live on fully. Thus one finds in Glen Phillips' poetry the unmistakable ring of an Elizabethan's voice, with the same lust for life and the same attentiveness to people and things, tinged with just a gentle misanthrophy. His poetry is always and essentially in motion, taking the reader towards events and into myriads of minds. It has its own quality and yet, in it, one often hears the voice of the bard that Blake had heard and wanted us all to hear. Here in this volume, the reader will marvel at the ways in which the poet traces life back to its dark and deep roots, getting down to the level of the unconscious where poetic utterance is not a mere figure of speech, and where humans, animals and things are necessarily intertwined. Montri Umavijani |
| Lovesongs LoveScenes - (Platypus Press) A celebrant of love, Glen's images spring naturally from the countryside in which he was born (Southern Cross - WA). From the quiet tenderness of 'Rain on the Roof' through the mood changes of 'Brass and Gold, ' in which the delicacy of love is likened to the 'tracery of She-oak boughs/Brushing the sky with muted needles,' to the lessons for lovers the poet finds in the seasonal shedding of eucalypt leaves, Glen presents a series of love-scapes that enrich the reader's understanding of our kinship with the world around us, as well as our links with each other. Yasmine Gooneratne |
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