Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems (1974) is the second poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf.

[1] It won the ALS Gold Medal,[2] the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry,[1] and the Colin Roderick Award,[3] all in 1974.

[1] Geoffrey Page in The Canberra Times noted the one thing all reviewers of the book "seem agreed on is the sophistication and depth of Malouf's poems about Europe.

Malouf's Australia is a place where the legendary, the extravagant are inextricably linked to hard reality.

Beneath the service stations is the mythical swamp of his childhood: not far beyond our everyday Australia is the Great South Land which fired the European imagination for centuries (and in which Malouf can still see the magic).