Headlines to the Heart

New and Selected Poems

Richard Kelly Tipping

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 March 2025

Poetry by individual poets

Headlines to the Heart is the poet's own selection of the most memorable poems from half a century of deeply-felt living. Humorous, erotic, perceptive and full of spoken ideas which stick in the mind, Tipping's poetry has been widely published and anthologised.

'Years of life and observation are distilled here, in the typical Tipping style, with dazzling wit, playfulness, precision and clarity. This is a complex, comprehensive response to the experience of living in our times, a 'his-story' which rewards careful, serious reading.'

Jean Kent, reviewing Instant History in Rochford Street Review, 2022

'Nearer by Far is Tipping's best collection with some trenchant political and satirical poems allied to fine landscape verse. As always with Tipping the result is witty, inventive and lively writing.'

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, second edition, edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, OUP 1996

'Looking back at Tipping's work across twenty years or so, we can see very clearly a tight group of virtual 'classics' which are likely to recur in anthologies for many years. These display his distinctively subtle wit

and often his visual acuity

at full strength.'

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry, Geoff Page, University of Queensland Press, 1995

By: Richard Kelly Tipping
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781923099555
ISBN 10: 1923099558
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Kelly Tipping's poetry has been included in over sixty anthologies including The New Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by Phillip Mead and John Tranter, and the New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les Murray. Tipping is also recognised for distinctive word art including large-scale public installations featured in his book Hear the Art: visual poetry as sculpture (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).

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Headlines to the Heart

New and Selected Poems

Richard Kelly Tipping

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