Ralph Wessman
HOBART BOOKSHOP and WALLEAH PRESS invite you to the launch of David HM Wright’s poetry collection, Splendour of the Shore.
Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart Tas 7000
5:30 pm, Thursday 27th March 2014
“First, and most obviously, Mr Wright has a marvellous command of language which he uses to great effect. The poems “sing”.
Secondly, he creates powerful images: we can almost see and smell the scenes he describes.
And thirdly, there is, underlying the lyrical description of scenes and events, a spiritual, almost metaphysical quality which makes the reader turn again to each poem to think about its meaning.”
— Philip Grundy
David Wright was born in Zimbabwe where he came to be recognised as one of Central Africa’s White poets. He emigrated to Australia in 1982. He served as headmaster of Oxley College, Bowral, from 1982-1993 and of the International Grammar School, Sydney from 1994-2000.
He is a graduate of the universities of Natal, Oxford, Rhodesia and Sydney. He is now retired and lives and writes in Kingston Beach, Tasmania.
ISBN 978-1-877010-44-6 20 pp $10 RRP
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