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'The Diwan of Nawid is like nothing else in Australian poetry -- a spiritual text of sublime beauty in which we follow the struggles, questionings, and exhortations of Nawid, a character you will come to love for the way in which he lays before us his intense search for inviolable truths. Nawid is an 'everyman' but with one remarkable difference -- he is a first-rate poet whose work contains the devotion and open-minded sagacity of a modern-day Kabir.' ― Judith Beveridge 'Sometimes a new voice springs from a poet. It's not quite the poet's own (although it is), and it's not quite another's voice (although it is). The Diwan of Nawid is a memorable collection of poems in such a voice: tender, witty, puzzled, consoling. It is unique in Australian poetry.' ― Kevin Hart Praise for At the Foot of the Mountain '... a wonder of compression and transformation... a book with a rare depth of humanity and spirit that bears witness to its writer's fearless perceptiveness, and which always carries itself with compassion and wit.' ― Graeme Miles '... innovative, intelligently creative, almost fearless.' ― Jennifer Harrison, Australian Book Review Praise for The Brokenness Sonnets I-III & Other Poems **The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2012** 'Love and joy are at the centre of McKimmie's world... we should take some time with his works, because there are parts of them that are necessarily beyond their creator ― and there can be no higher praise.' ― Toby Davidson, Mascara Literary Review