Book excerpt: Coast Road: Selected Poems is the definitive Robert Gray collection.Robert Gray is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. Among his many prizes are the Patrick White Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, and the Australia Council's Writer's Emeritus Award for lifetime achievement. His Selected Poems has been published in the United States, China, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He is the author of a prize-winning prose memoir, The Land I Came Through Last.'An imagist without a rival in the English-speaking world.' Kevin Hart'Individual, surprising, evocative … at once cool and rapturous. ' Lisa Gorton