"Published with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Hunter District Water Board'

Posthumous collection of the poetry of an eminent, respected former professor of poetry, critic and passionate Irishman. Includes almost all of the poetry he wrote from the time of his last collection in 1981 to his death in 1988.

One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

This collection celebrates the pleasures and preoccupations of a poet whose imagination was sparked by languages old and new. Here are classical rhymes, dexterous adaptations of ancient Greek epigrams as well as translations of French and German poems. Inventive and playful, ironic and humane, Bray's own work is 'a poetry of our time', covering more than thirty years of writing.

Myths and stone have always figured in Radzyner's consciousness.A son of Holocaust survivors Radzyner leaves Australia in 1983, for life in an Israeli ecological farming village. He struggles with the land and with the problem of God's existence.The poet moves between opposing landscapes, the valleys of boulders and olive trees, and the desert processes, of Negev and Sinai, where the enormity of history is absorbed by the greater vastness of geology, and also of metahistory. In history as in nature, he is shattered by transience and transcendence.