Selected Poems 1971-2017 by Laurie Duggan
PBS Special Commendation Spring 2018 Helen Vendler a salute to a life

a salute to a life in which we are always growing

self-nominated President of Planet Earth

and how they differ

‘A brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems concerned with the personal impact of the dislocations and betrayals of history

casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager

Selected Poems 1971-2017 by Laurie Duggan <br> <b> PBS Special Commendation Spring 2018 </b> Helen Vendler a salute to a lifeI think of how Pound defined the image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time; and, still being thoroughly sane back in 1913, he went on to say: the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Such an imagist doctrine has always been at the heart of Laurie Duggans sharp eyed work, ever since the days when he was at the core of a group who got together at Monash, back in the 1960s. Chris Wallace Crabbe