The Mirror Hurlers

In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape — traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers an equally wide range of experience: family and childhood, love and jealousy, and quietly metaphysical encounters with the energies of land, sea, sky and weather.

The sensibility revealed in these poems is visionary, warm, and often humorous. Here are the best poems produced in the last ten years by a writer committed to a poetry of intensity, complexity and clarity — a rare trio of qualities based on a strong rhythmic life and an ability to go deep in search of the uniquely true image.

About the Author

A Victorian poet, Gillett grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne. He taught English at Melbourne and Monash Universities during the 1970s. He has since worked as an administrator in higher education for both federal and state governments. Since 1995 he has lived at Ballarat.