Author(s): John Mateer

Poetry

Southern Barbarians weaves a complex narrative of exploration, wandering and travel across the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere, washing up against ancient tribes, stranded sailors, pirates, convicts, outcasts and other denizens of this mythical edge of the globe. Combining languages, forms and landscapes, the poems are dazzling in their dexterity of voice, and conjure worlds and wild imaginations long tamed by modernity.