‘What Is Gone Is Not Gone’: Intimations in the Poetry of Thomas Shapcott

Abstract

Discusses Shapcott's poetry as 'intimations', 'especially concerned with intimating (which can be a way of avoiding closeness), intimacy and hearing intimations (often, of course, of mortality). Argues that 'rather than a poetry requiring diagnosis', Shapcott's verse 'requires a teasing out of the difference between intimacy and intimation.

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Published 1 May 1997 in Volume 18 No. 1. Subjects: Poetic techniques, Use of language, Writer's craft, Thomas Shapcott.

Cite as: McCooey, David. ‘‘What Is Gone Is Not Gone’: Intimations in the Poetry of Thomas Shapcott.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1997, doi: 10.20314/als.335d898a8f.