The Mirror Hurlers

In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape - traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers an equally wide range of experience: family and childhood, love and jealousy, and quietly metaphysical encounters with the energies of land, sea, sky and weather.

The sensibility revealed in these poems (a number of which have won or been shortlisted for major Australian poetry awards) is visionary, warm, and often humorous. Here are the best poems from more than ten years of work by a writer committed to a poetry of intensity, complexity and clarity - a rare trio of qualities - based on a strong rhythmic life and an ability to go deep in search of the uniquely true image.