David Musgrave is one of the leading Australian poets of his generation. This selection brings together the best of his work from the last three decades and presents the full range of his achievement in a coherent narrative: it shows him to have mastery over many modes and forms and also reflects the wide range of his intellect and interests. Australianness is at the core of his work, yet he is equally at home in the Western tradition and his Irish roots as he is in other poetic traditions. His work has won, or been shortlisted for, many major prizes in Australia, including the Grace Leven, Newcastle, Bruce Dawe and Judith Wright Calanthe Poetry Prizes, and his fiction has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. He is widely recognised as a major talent whose work thinks as much as it feels. Book jacket.