This piece came to me on a summer's day after surveying Central Victoria (Australia) from a hillside near Harcourt. The piece makes use of echo verse - a difficult form to work with. It's one of the few poems I've expressly written about the region in which I live in a more or less traditional way.
Go to: 'Spine of a Country', copyright Ian Irvine, all rights reserved. This poem has been published several times - in the Australian literary journal Tirra Lirra and also in the Bendigo Magazine (one of my few appearances in a 'glossy magazine').
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Under Amber Skies, written by author and poet Jill Eisnaugle, is a wonderful collection of rhyming poetry guaranteed to please every reader. In this, her second book, she writes of new friendships kindled, as well as old friendships solidified. She g
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