Dawson Hann has spent a lifetime with books, as a teacher of literature for forty years, and is always happy to explore new genres. He has enjoyed encountering ‘the reality of experience’, as James Joyce encouraged, travelling widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe, as well as making yearly pilgrimages into the outback of Australia, feeling deeply the ‘spirit of place’ in his own backyard. Around the age of fifty, the rich diversity of his experiences living vividly in his memory and imagination urged an expression in verse. He hoped thereby to connect himself and others to just some of the human insights provided by his varied experiences. The result, after 25 years of a poem now and then, is this collection.
Bottled Oddities: The Collected Poems of Dawson Hann
Dawson Hann’s poems, as the title implies, are all highly individual in their structures and points of view. They engage comprehensively, and often humorously, with those truths of human experience that our emotions, and our imagination, at times long for. They sit upon a shelf of life’s varied ...
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