Cocky's Joy

Michael Farrell has a reputation as the most adventurous and experimental ofcontemporary Australian poets, since he continually pushes the boundaries of whatour poetry can do. Cocky's Joy is likely to be his breakthrough collection, the one whichwins him a wider audience, and part of the reason for this lies in the use it makes ofAustralian history and popular culture. Farrell was born and raised in rural NSW andas its title suggests, many of the poems in this collection are rooted in the bush,