News at Eleven: Of which the poetry in The Land's Meaning:

New Selected Poems [by Randolph Stow] is a prime example--the counterpoint between an archaic formalism and a fraught investigation of literal and psychological landscapes exposing our own fragile sense of self and place in an ancient land not our own. From Stow's The Singing Bones: "Out there, beyond the boundary fence, beyond/the scrub-dark flat horizon that the crows/returned from, evenings, days of rusty wind/raised from the bones a stiff lament, whose sound/netted my childhood round, and even here still blows."

"It's often said (Stow's) poetry, while being quite radical in content, is less so formally," Kinsella says. "I argue that's untrue. There are things happening within those formal constraints that are really interesting and dynamic."

from The West Australian: Dynamic poet of the land

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