Red Heart My Country
A5 28pp, paperback
About the book
- Liz Winfield, Famous Reporter, Dec 2000Eric Beach's poetry uses the patterning of traditional forms such as sonnets and villanelles, jazz and blues, but extends his poems through a spectrum of patterning of meanings and emotions, conversational language such as 'talkback radio', multinational languages such as 'I'd like to multicultural your acquaintance', and monologues such as the toddler in '3 year-old blues' and 'I'm th' man who talks to trees.
This is a handbook not only of poetry, but of the possibilities of how poetry can be written and understood. Within this small group of poems there is the means to capture nearly every reader/listener, no matter what the age or education level. . .don't be fooled by the apparent simplicity of this collection, it is written by a master. It looks easy until you try.