Review

A selection of poems chosen by singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is filled with interesting choices

By Geoff Page
December 14 2019 - 5:00am
Paul Kelly has been recording music for 40 years. Picture: Getty Images
Paul Kelly has been recording music for 40 years. Picture: Getty Images

Paul Kelly, the highly successful Australian singer-songwriter with a luminous forty-year career behind him, has now published an anthology of his favourite poems. In the introduction to Love is Strong as Death, Kelly gives us his single criterion for inclusion: " ... if I love a poem, it goes in, no matter how worn out others may think it to be".

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