On Reflection

David Musgrave

ISBN 1876819278 RRP $24

"This is a genuinely innovative take on self-consciousness: it cheeks the character's self-pitying hesitation to call himself a poet, celebrates his disappointments and listlessness, and neatly contrasts the 'poetry of commerce' with what the poet-hero produces - in a word, a memorable production."

Michael Sharkey

David Musgrave is a sydney writer. His first novel, as well as his study of Menippean satire, Grotesque Anatomies are due to be published in 2009 . In 2008 he won the Joesphine Ulrick Poetry Prize. His other works include To Thalia(Five Islands, 2004) and Watermark (Picaro, 2006).