Tide Country is a collection of poems by Australian poet Vivian Smith, published by Angus and Robertson in 1982.
[1] The collection contains 84 poems taken from a variety of publications such as The Australian newspaper, The Bulletin, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, and others.
[2] Writing in The Age reviewer Kerryn Goldsworthy found in a lot of the poems Smith stuck to a certain forms which "sometimes lets him down, either through ostentatious overcarefulness at the expense of fluency, or through the tendency to cliche".
[3] In Australian Book Review Barbara Giles found that Smith writes "elegant, lyrical verse, carefully wrought and varied in content, in masterly fashion.
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