West Coast Correspondences

â Taking a letter from English poet Thom Gunn, resident in California, to Stow in Geraldton, WA, as a starting point, the author explores â correspondencesâ between the two poets. He examines the way in which their â mirroring movements between England and the New World enact comparable tensions and preoccupations in their work, between cosmopolitanism and localism, Romanticism and demotic contemporary cultures, which may account for the affinity between them that Gunnâ s letter asserts so categorically and intriguinglyâ (p. 33). Brown discusses Stowâ s education and involvement in literary life at the University of Western Australia and his reading of Gunnâ s early poetry in *The Sense of Movement* â focusing upon some telling resonances and contrastsâ it has with Stowâ s own workâ (p.33)

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