This book is aimed at providing criticism on contemporary Australian poetry in a form that is accessible to general readers.

It is intended to be the first in a series which will grapple with the bewildering diversity of the contemporary poetry scene.

Australian poetry deserves a criticism that accompanies the astonishing momentum and luminosity that has developed, which both elucidates the scale of poetic achievement and is also not afraid to evaluate that achievement through a rigorous and disinterested critical lens.

Australian poets have been feeding the ghost with extraordinary energy and acumen over the last quarter of a century; it is now time for Australian poetry criticism to catch up.

'Looking for a title then seeing what the hunger is and what all art is: feeding the ghost'. — Philip Salom