In Blind Spots, Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM, Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office, and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense pressure of political office during these troubled times is evident through his tongue-in-cheek depiction of both Kevin and Julia.

In Blind Spots, Bruce Dawe turned his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM, Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office, and Kevin Rudd's return. In Kevin Almighty, one of Australia's finest poets extends his send-up of the 2013 election and its aftermath.

For over forty years, Barry Spurr has created a significant body of work in English literary scholarship, spanning a wide range of fields from Early Modern literature to contemporary Australian poetry. Barry Spurr is acknowledged as a leading scholar in the fields of religious literature and liturgical language, most notably in the works of Renaissance poet John Donne, the Modernist poet T.S. Eliot, and the language and literature of the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He was appointed by the University of Sydney as Australia's first Professor of Poetry and Poetics, and holds a notable reputation...