Wild Bees

<p>Subtle and sharply lyrical these poems shimmer on the eye while being deeply held at the back of the mind. Martin Harrison has been described as a writer whose poetry is a meeting place between the immensity and intensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech world of everyday life. Collected here is the poet's own re-casting of his work since the early 1990s setting accomplished poems from earlier books in the company of recent poems and prose poems. Martin Harrison's <em>Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems</em> marks a place of arrival and a new departure.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>Wild Bees</em> is a volume laced with a complex sensuousness and moral keenness... This book like the bees of its title collects essence and song it's a great pleasure to read and a major work of art. -Robert Adamson</p><p><br></p><p>These are poems where the pleasure of earthly distance becomes a pact with the human trouble that everybody knows delicately acknowledged in the reverberations of particulars. -Peter Riley</p><p><br></p><p>...a book of unusual beauty and of original insight. -Robert Gray</p><p><br></p><p>Utterly convincing places where ordinary happiness might reside. -Nigel Wheale <em>London Review of Books</em></p><p><br></p>