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Dabney Stuart
The poems in Dabney Stuart’s Common Ground centre on a family, the bonds that unite it and the forces that break it apart. These poems return again and again, often…
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The evasive and unsettling nature of family relationships threads consistently through the poems collected in Light Years; the poet uncovers deepening emotional and psychological complexities. There are celebrations of his…
This collection of poems by Dabney Stuart weaves together carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence and the epistemology of memory into moments of hallucinatory focus where insight…
A collection of poems providing a commentry on the themes of exploration and discovery. Stuart approaches these themes from a variety of angles - historical, physical, familial and psychological -…
The poems in this collection vary in subject - World War II, browsing library stacks, a family reunion, sky diving, a visit to a museum and cancer, among other topics…
Family Preserve gathers the family poems scattered throughout Dabney Stuart’s books over the past four decades and intersperses them with previously unpublished poems. By turns comic and tragic, this collection…
In Don’t Look Back, Dabney Stuart recalls central people and emotions from his past and integrates them into a search for personal wholeness in the present. He honours a network…
The four sections of Dabney Stuart’s new book represent a progression toward release from self-preoccupation, both personal and cultural, and a growing intimation of acceptance of the world outside the…
Mr Dabney Stuart
The poems in TIME’S BODY show Dabney Stuart’s usual wide range of subjects: from baseball to quantum physics, the American southwest to New Zealand, Paul Cezanne to George Herbert. The…
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Dabney Stuart’s love for the animals that inhabit the earth pulses through this new collection of poems for the young and the young at heart. From rhinoceros to remora, iguana…