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Article: Poets and Others.
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- Quadrant
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- June 1, 2001
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Poets and Others, by Bruce Beaver; Brandl & Schlesinger, 1999, $16.95.
LONG-TIME READERS of Quadrant should find particular interest in one of the poems in Bruce Beaver's fourteenth collection of verse. It is called "Requiem for Richard (Lewis) Packer", and is one of a series of tributes to other poets, some still living but most long-deceased. Packer was the author of a memorable essay, published in these pages in 1975, entitled "Against the Epigones"; elegantly written and closely reasoned, it was the first expression of dissent against the takeover of Australian poetry by a group known variously (and misleadingly) as "The Balmain Poets", "The New Writing", ...