Walking to Point Clear

Description

'Walking to Point Clear', David Brooks' long-awaited second collection, gathers together some of his best work from the last two decades. It features the kind of spare, existential lyrics, written about the coastal rainforest of southern NSW, that for many readers have already confirmed for him a unique place in the landscape of Australian poetry.

David Brooks was born in 1953 in Canberra. He has taught at various Australian universities and edited and/or been on the editorial board of various Australian literary journals (Helix, The Phoenix Review, Westerly), been a guest of numerous literary festivals (the Perth Festival, the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Festival Writers' Weeks, etc.). He has lectured on Australian literature and/or read his poetry and prose at literary events in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and China. He is currently senior lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, where he is also Director of the graduate program in Creative Writing and co-editor of Southerly, Australia's principal literary journal.