The Tower

by John Egan

Overview

‘There is a seamlessness about these poems; the stitching doesn’t show. Egan brings the full range of poetic techniques to his work, but they are largely invisible in the context of the whole. There were many times I had to pause while reading…often mid-poem, sometimes to reflect on how they related to my own experiences, sometimes to simply go back and relive the lucidity of the last few lines. These are poems which make us want to linger.’ – Garth Madsen

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760415686
Publisher:	Debbie Lee
Publication date:	06/13/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	148
File size:	328 KB

About the Author

John Egan is a Sydney poet who also spends much of his time at his property on the south coast of NSW. He was a high school teacher of English and History for twenty-two years and was Second Master of Bankstown Grammar School for many years. Later, he was a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and taught University Preparation courses at the University of New South Wales, Wollongong University College, Sydney, and Newcastle University, Sydney, as well as English and Business Communication for eighteen years. He retired in 2013. His chapbook Not the Rain, the Wind was published by the Melbourne Poets Union and Ginninderra Press have published three collections, fourteen chapbooks and a collaboration. He considers himself a poet of memory and the sea but also writes about the natural world, the urban environment and social issues.