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Article: The dish to make your mark in.(The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets, edited by Geoff Page; Indigo/Ginninderra, 2003, $20.
REVIEWING AN ANTHOLOGY of poetry is fraught with danger. Particular difficulties present themselves when it comes to discussing examples of the sampled work, since one is especially aware that the authors of any weak poems will feel put out for being attacked for work they themselves are probably not even proud of. At the same time, when one praises the inclusion of a good poem, this tends to appear as praise of the author of the poem rather than the editor of the anthology. No matter whom he praises or criticises, therefore, the reviewer is left with the uneasy ...