Shearsman Books

Paperback, 168pp, 9x6ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781848610088

Subtle and sharply lyrical, these poems shimmer on the eye while being deeply held at the back of the mind.

Martin Harrison has been described as a writer whose poetry is a meeting place between the immensity, and intensity, of the Australian environment and the hi-tech world of everyday life. Collected here is the poet's own re-casting of his work since the early 1990s, setting accomplished poems from earlier books in the company of recent poems and prose poems. Martin Harrison's Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems marks a place of arrival and a new departure.

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Wild Bees is a volume laced with a complex sensuousness and moral keenness...This book like the bees of its title, collects essence and song, it's a great pleasure to read and a major work of art.
—Robert Adamson

These are poems where the pleasure of earthly distance becomes a pact with the human trouble that everybody knows, delicately acknowledged in the reverberations of particulars.
—Peter Riley

. . . a book of unusual beauty and of original insight.
—Robert Gray

Utterly convincing places where ordinary happiness might reside. —Nigel Wheale, London Review of Books

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