A revelation in literary criticism, Philip Mead’s Networked\nLanguage offers absorbing new perspectives on Australian poetry and\nits cultural life. This study presents new ways of understanding\nAustralian poetry, drawing on an equal fascination with the\nartifice of poetry and the complexity of culture. It is about the\nways poetry changes in relation to its social, political and\nhistorical contexts, the way poetic communities and the readerships\nof poetry have changed through history, and continue to change in\nthe present.

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Mead’s scholarly tentacles go very deep and his insights are\nseriously new. This book will be most valuable, and will last. –\nChris Wallace-Crabbe

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