Kevin Hart

Murray’s writing about the landscape and mores of rural Australia drew attention in his home country. Continue Reading »

It’s not too late, Dark One,       For you to come       And have me close And stay an hour or two, It’s not too late at all       For you to slip       Past fossil . . . . Continue Reading »

You come to me in thick old roots of night While trucks are changing gears, although you kiss Like a slack orchid tongue in Cairns, and I Can’t make you out, and so you call to me At afternoon in a light rain when dreams Go whirling in Saigon under wet heat So I can hear your voice, although . . . . Continue Reading »

A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659, John Milton published A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes . His powerful attack against the idea of a state church remains one of the most pungent pieces of prose in the language. We do . . . . Continue Reading »