Cilla McQueen

State-of-the-Nation poems (3)

Cilla McQueen, ‘Living Here’ (1982)

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Cilla McQueen in Auckland (March 29, 2012)

Time for a change of gear, I think. Curnow’s and Baxter’s poems seem designed to wrestle with the big questions, to provoke that “You must change your life” epiphany Rilke got from his Archaic Torso of Apollo. There’s a sense of mission about both of them as writers.

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