Simon West

Dear Muses: Essays in Poetry

Simon West

Book  |  2019

In these essays Simon West examines our metaphors for reaching back after inspiration.

Carol and Ahoy

Simon West

Book  |  2018

The backdrop of Carol and Ahoy is the Goulburn River and its floodplains around Shepparton.

John Forbes and a Classical Inheritance in contemporary Australian poetry

Simon West

Journal article  |  2018  |  Sydney review of books

Squaring the Circle: Dante, Memory and the Project of Writing

Simon West

Book Chapter  |  2018

Australian poetry: Emery, Cahill, McInerney, Leigh Keates

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Journal article  |  2017  |  The Weekend Australian

Oracles and the Intellect: James McAuley in the Centenary of his Birth

Simon West

Journal article  |  2017  |  Sydney Review of Books

• 'Dante: The Story of his Life'

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Media  |  2016

The Ladder

Simon West

Book  |  2015

At the collection's heart are the building blocks of language, along with the more literal ones of Rome, where some of these poems..

Great Poem Hoax: On Gwen Harwood

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Journal article  |  2015  |  The Sydney Review of Books

• 'Auden's Skirmish with the Real

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Journal article  |  2015  |  Sydney Review of Books