Two Poets Fremantle Poets 2

Two Poets contains exciting new collections by leading Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam, with an introduction by poet and critic Lisa Gorton. Both Lansdown and Gillam have distinctive voices but share a strong sense of place, and concern with craft. In ther introduction, poet and critic Lisa Gorton describes their approaches to style:'Over nearly forty years, Lansdown has worked at [the] art of precision . . . these poems show how an aesthetic of exact detail and subtle craft has shaped his poetic idiom has become the very language of his craft.''Gillam's poems set him in the midst of time, in the present participle, and in the frame . . . his poems attend not to the still moment, but to the haphazard and open-ended experience of time . . . Gillam's is a various and wide-ranging art.'

Andrew Lansdown is a poet and the author of several collections, including Birds in Mind, The Dispossessed, Far from Home, and Fontanelle. He is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, such as the Manly Fellowship of Australian Writers Poetry Award, the Trudy Graham Biennial Literary Award, and the Woorilla Poetry Prize. Kevin Gillam is the director of music at Christchurch Grammar School and a freelance cellist and orchestral conductor. He is the author of Other Gravities and Permitted to Fall and his poetry has been included in The Best Australian Poems 2008 and The Best Australian Poetry 2006. He is also the recipient of many poetry awards, including the Adelaide Festival's John Bray National Poetry Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. Lisa Gorton is a writer whose poetry collection, Press Release, was short-listed for the Melbourne Prize for Best Writing Award and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Her novel for children, Cloudland, was one of the Age Books of the Year.