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Fresh Fields, by Peter Kocan; HarperCollins, 2004, $27.95.
PETER KOCAN'S new novel, Fresh Fields, is a stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous work of immense power and magnitude.
It was fashionable some years ago for literary critics to search the horizon, Ahab-like, for the Great Australian Novel. If this is not exactly the Great Australian Novel they expected, it is certainly a very great novel, the greatest to appear in Australia for a long time.
It confirms absolutely Kocan's place in prose as in poetry as one of the foremost writers in the English language today. As I know of no other contemporary poet who can combine profundity and clarity ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Caught in the vortex.(Fresh Fields)(book)(Book Review)