Books by Duncan Bruce Hose

Has there been an Australian poet as troubadorish and piratical as Duncan Hose? The work is a response to an imaginary Auden's (or someone's) pronouncement that poetry be playful or drunken speech, linguistically badly behaved - more sweet-sounding than anything I can think of in Australian English. - Michael FarrellBorn in Van Diemen's Land, Duncan Hose is the author of Rathaus, One Under Bacchus and Bunratty. A shillelagh is a blackthorn club used variously as a walking stick, a companion, and a weapon. A Jewelled Shillelagh is what you have in your hands.

"Duncan Hose treads the lesser-known path of maverick Australian poets such as Norman Talbot, John Watson and Javant Biarujia-that is, like all good must-read poets, he invents a new language, full of playful disguises and serious intent, reaffirming Baudelaire's view that only the human-made is beautiful." - Gig RyanDuncan Hose is from the softslang line of the chansonnier, whose reference points range between Trefoil Island, Melbourne and Coney Island. He is the author of Rathaus and One Under Bacchus.