Latitudes by Owen Leeming Japanese “Militello’s poems… illuminate and mystify

“Militello’s poems… illuminate and mystify

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How to be a Poet combines practical advice and topical mini-essays that examine both the technical and creative dimensions of being a poet

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Latitudes by Owen Leeming Japanese “Militello’s poems… illuminate and mystifyDuring his time in London in the late 1950s and early 1960s New Zealand poet Owen Leeming was a member of The Group of young poets which included George Macbeth, Edward Lucie Smith, Philip Hobsbaum, Peter Redgrove, Alan Brownjohn, Peter Porter, and Martin Bell. His highly praised first collection Venus is Setting, with its tour de force centrepiece 'The Priests of Serrabonne', was published in New Zealand 1972. It would take the best part of five