Dimensions
137 x 208 x 6mm
"Originality may not be everything in poetry but it's hard enough to find at any moment in literary history. Necessary Evil is a consummate book, and of an instantly insistent originality. With it Sherborne goes to the top of Australian poetry – nobody is writing better." (Peter Porter)
In this volume of poems Craig Sherborne takes up some of the themes explored in his riveting memoir Hoi Polloi. There are magnificently realistic poems of family, racing and journalism. There are also poems that possess, in Peter Porter's words, a special mysticism that is both haunting and characteristic, in which the bush, both its landscape and diverse characters, is freshly evoked.
