Selected Poems

This selection of poems by Larry Buttrose represents a forty-year output and although many of the poems have been published before, either as single offerings or inclusions in anthologies, this is the first time that such a range of the poet’s work has been gathered in one volume.

Larry Buttrose’s poems disrobe and contemplate the great existential truths of life: love, desire, memory and death...Read and be enlightened.

Peter Minter

It’s a book by a poet who can praise life and yet sting when he looks at what we have brought upon ourselves. It is a surprising book, the work of a brilliant poet.

Robert Adamson 

Buttrose is one of our most indispensable poetic voices.

Geraldine Brooks

Sweet, funny, savage, sumptuous, sad, these poems taste of Larkin and Eliot but mostly, ruthlessly, of Buttrose.

Elizabeth Farrelly 

Larry Buttrose is an Australian writer whose published works include poetry, novels and plays, as well as an extensive range of non-fiction and journalism.