80 pages. Whether light or sombre, the high intelligence of Peter Goldsworthy's verse is proven by its very ability to delight us. That it consistently does so is in part due to its classically perfect balancing of warmth and cool. This selection of his poetry, undertaken by the author himself, is severe, but the result is a choice literary experience from the wry Author's Note to the very last line.

This goes with that: Selected poems, 1970-1990

GOLDSWORTHY, Peter

Angus&Robertson

Little deaths (Imprint)

J.J. has always been more at home in Sign language than in spoken English. Recently divorced, he returns to school to teach Sign. His pupils include the foster parents of a beautiful and highly intelligent ape named Eliza. The author has also written "Maestro" and "Honk If You Are Jesus".

Wish

Everything I Knew

Penguin/Hamish Hamilton

Ranging from the early comic sketches to the disturbing brilliance of his recent stories, this outstanding collection reinforces Peter Goldsworthy's reputation as a modern master of short fiction. Simultaneously light and dark, unsettling and amusing, his stories leave indelible traces in the memory. A writer's writer, he is also never less than compellingly readable.

The List of All Answers: Collected Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Viking Books

Porn-and-prawn nights at the Club, early morning milk runs, and day-to-day marital disharmony are the raw material for this comedy and tragedy.

Keep it simple, stupid

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many.  'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAEStRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one has finished it. It is distinguished by subtlety, by economy and by a quality often lacking in even the best of recent novels - an unerring quality of tone' by Andrew Riemer in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. It has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the top 40 Australian Books of All time. 'the necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty - these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit. He can't help being funny, but he's wise too.' - AUStRALIAN BOOK REVIEW

Maestro (A&R Classics)

Harper Collins Publishers (australia) Pty Ltd

Set in Darwin, Paul Crabbe meets Eduard Keller, a Viennese refugee with a mysterious past. Keller is the piano teacher and Crabbe the unwilling pupil, for Keller is unspeakably demanding, a relentless disciplinarian. But as more of Keller's past unfolds, he emerges as a lovable and tragic figure.

Maestro

Contemporary

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A poet at once serious and humorous, elegant and down to earth, Peter Goldsworthy offers rich rewards on every page of this selection, drawn from all of his books to date and including songs from his two acclaimed opera libretti, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Batavia.

This Goes With That: Poems 1974-2001

History & Criticism

Leviathan

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This goes with that: Selected poems, 1970-1990

Little deaths (Imprint)

Wish

Everything I Knew

The List of All Answers: Collected Stories

Keep it simple, stupid

Maestro (A&R Classics)

Maestro

This Goes With That: Poems 1974-2001

This Goes With That: Poems 1974-2001