Beth Spencer



How the heart burns

We swallowed anger with the milk puddings. With peas and chops and mint sauce. With silverbeet cooked on the back of the stove until the water evaporates and the edges burn. Put some butter on it, you won’t even taste …

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Review Short: Beth Spencer’s Vagabondage

Twenty years ago Beth Spencer’s first collection of poetry, Things in a Glass Box, was published and reviewed to critical acclaim. Since then she has published individual poems and two volumes of multiple genre selected works that have included poems. It could be said that it’s a long time between drinks, though Spencer has been busy with fiction, essays, and memoir (and a PhD) in the meantime. Vagabondage is her first full collection of poems since, and widely anticipated because of that.

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