One of the impulses behind putting the anthology together was the sense that it was becoming increasingly difficult for good poetry to become visible.…
The Yarts minister's raid on the Australia Council may satisfy two Liberal groups – traditionalists who like glitzy opening nights, opera and ballet, and…
On not knowing In December I responded to remarks by Fairfax book critic Andrew Riemer concerning Lionel G Fogarty’s poem in the Best Australian Poems…
Last year, around the release of Lisa Gorton’s Hotel Hyperion, it occurred to me that a speculative tradition had quietly become established within recent…
Narrowness (and Breadth) There can never be any agreed-upon set of standards or values in the wide-ranging and contested poetics at any particular time.…