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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, Richard Kelly Tipping’s poetry has been widely published and anthologised. From the personal to the political, this book is a keeper. Tipping has a national and international reputation as an artist working with words. Typographic concrete poems are featured, including strikingly original visual poems which he has turned into sculpture made of steel, granite, marble and glass.
”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
”Richard Kelly Tipping has an engaging and perceptive sense of humour, a definite lyric gift, and an unusual ability to convey erotic excitement.”
Alasdair Leitch in Verse, Oxford, 1987
