Instead of sending our poets overseas, we invited poets from other countries to publish in New Poetry . There were no travelling fellowships or studios in Italy or France for Australian poets and it was good value even when New Poetry sponsored Robert Duncan's Australian tour. Scripsi continued publishing internationally known poets into the nineties and now we have the excellent HEAT publishing our poets alongside the best from the rest of the world. Salt will do well if it continues on as a poetry magazine. After all we haven't had one since New Poetry .
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There is also an interesting interview that will delight readers who enjoy the poetry of Kevin Hart. Some of the best poems are by John Tranter, Jennifer Maiden, Adam Aitken, Peter Minter, Paul Hoover, Zan Ross and Frances Rouse. There is an extract from a long poem by Alan Wearne, 'Stubbsy', that reads well. Craig Stubbs is a failed entrepreneur holed up in one of his former empire's few remaining properties, Crazy Horse, a bar in a large South East Asian city. It is like a post modern version of Francis Webb's 'A Drum For Ben Boyd'.