An important collection of poetry from one of Australia's greatest poets.

This selection of A.D. Hope's poetry was published in 1992, the first in Australia since 1973. It includes pieces from all his major collections, including The Wandering Islands, first published in 1955, his subsequent collections A Late Picking, Antechinus and The Age of Reason, and Orpheus (1991). It provides an overview of a career that spanned over sixty years, and is a chance to look afresh at an enigmatic and compelling figurewidely regarded as one of the finest English-language poets of the twentieth century.