This Goes with This

Goldsworthy, Peter

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Coulehan, Jack

Alcoholism
Communication
Human Worth
Humor and Illness/Disability
Individuality
Physician Experience
Science
Suicide
Tuberculosis

Date of entry: Feb-29-2000

Summary

The poems in this collection are elegant, economical, worldly, and humorous. The tone is generally one of amused ruefulness. In "Alcohol" the poet addresses his subject as "the eighth / and shallowest / of the seven seas." He salutes the "nice" people, "on whom depends / the diminishing goodness of the world."

Commentary

Peter Goldsworthy is a medical practitioner in South Australia. His literary career has seen the publication of numerous novels, collections of short prose, and poetry. His first collection of poems, Reading from Ecclesiastes, won a number of literary awards. Poems of particular interest from the Literature and Medicine perspective are: "Alcohol," "The Nice," "Credo," "Trick Knee," "This Goes with This," and "Suicide of Christmas Eve."

Publisher

ABC Enterprises

Place Published

Sydney, Australia

Edition

1988