The Secret History by Michael Hulse

Synopsis

The Secret History by Michael Hulse

Michael Hulse’s moving new collection is a quest for the meaning of home. These are meditations on the parents and childhood God he has lost, the national legacies of England and Germany he was born into, and the discovery of home through love.

The marriage of imaginative scope and emotional directness that Sean O’Brien observed in Michael Hulse’s writing has never been so compellingly displayed as in these poems. Tender, venturesome, charged with intellectual energy, Home is eloquent testimony to Hulse’s technical virtuosity, and shows a poet at the height of his powers.

"Compelling and moving."
Poetry Review

"A reckless, generous and remarkable collection of poems."
Acumen

"There is raw honesty and considerable depth contained in the poetry’s craftsmanship... This is his talent at its height."
Stella Stocker

"The Secret History is highly recommended."
PN Review

Reviews of The Secret History

	30 March 2010
Reviewer: John Levett Publication: Agenda
This is an intelligent and moving collection. Michael Hulse has set out to be unflinchingly honest about his own life set against the wider background of European history, the heights of its artistic achievements and the depths of its falls from grace. He writes with a controlled passion, close to the spoken word, using sophisticated effects to locate the significant and develop its larger emotional truth. Such art and honesty make us all want to believe that tomorrow could be the 30th February. John Levett

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