Form with feeling Glass on the Chimney and Other Poems by Jamie Grant Hardie Grant, 2014, 142 pages, $24.95 Jamie Grant is one of Australia’s best, but most neglected poets. It is about a decade and a half since a book of his poems has appeared. His father and, only to a slightly lesser extent his mother, are a recurring presence in this superbly readable book. My own father used to say, “Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.” (He may have been wise not to act on his own advice.) I sometimes recite to myself a…
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