Peter Minter

Peter Minter is a poet, poetry editor and writer on poetry and poetics. He teaches Indigenous Studies, Australian literature and Creative Writing at the University of Sydney, and his most recent book, In the Serious Light of Nothing was published by the Chinese University Press Hong Kong in 2013.

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Writing Place Essay: Peter Minter

The Suspended Image

‘I stood with my face almost touching a wall of glass, a sheer window looking out into an immense depth, a profound, almost unfathomable dark green chasm girded by sandstone precipices and a halo of mist and cloud. It had been raining all afternoon. In the diminishing light the distant wet cliffs looked dark orange, blood red, gold. A motionless wing of pure white cloud floated over the valley floor like an apparition on a billow of air.’

Nov. 2016 • Place • Poetry • Writing Place