From the Book - First Paul Dry Books edition.
Part One: The Way of Literature
Incarnation and Metamorphosis: an essay in metaphors
The Minefield and the Soul: notes on identity and literature
Poet and Moralist: Claudia Rankine and Kay Ryan
Daughters of Memory: the sibling rivalry of history and poetry
Beloved Immoralist: one man's love of a fictional character
Part Two: Voices, Dead and Living
The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney
Two Poet-Critics: Clive James and John Burnside
The Searching Stories of Helen Garner
Robert Stone and American Wreckage
The Inner Exile of Dana Gioia
"The song is drowned": Michael Donaghy.