Nathan Shepherdson’s ‘Axolotl Waltz’ Reviewed by Heidi Maier | InReview
‘It’s a cracker – rich with precisely drawn visual images communicated via sparse, exacting prose that leaves an unquestionable imprint on the reader.’ …
Marcella Polain’s ‘the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness’ Reviewed by Jackson | Westerly
‘Polain’s book is a masterclass in using linebreak and whitespace—and their absence—to create tension and unity and to show the reader where to rush…
Malcolm Sutton’s ‘Twitchers’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
‘Journalist and musician Malcolm Sutton brings irreverent quirk to this black comedy steeped in the atmosphere and lore of suburban Adelaide.’ A great…
Pitaya Chin’s ‘The Director and the Daemon’ Reviewed by Alex Gerrans | Meanjin Quarterly
‘’The Director and the Daemon’ does the crucial work of imagining fighting back, fighting proactively… we must harness imagination the way Chin does, towards…
Sarah Temporal’s ‘Tight Bindings’ Reviewed by Magdalena Ball | Compulsive Reader
‘The poems and their delivery both on the page, and on video, are quietly ferocious, delivered with warmth and gentleness that immediately draws the…
Larry Buttrose’s ‘Everyone On Mars’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
‘Literary playfulness and intertextuality mark the volume, which ranges widely in subject and tone…’ A fine review of Larry Buttrose‘s Everyone On Mars…
Pitaya Chin’s ‘The Director and the Daemon’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
‘The Director and the Daemon is a rare bird in Australian fiction – a novel of ideas – and anyone involved in the arts…
Willo Drummond’s ‘Moon Wrasse’ Reviewed by Misbah Wolf | Mascara Literary Review
‘This book is an homage to love and magick and finding ways to reinscribe very necessary and vital voices and existences that have slipped/been…
Willo Drummond’s ‘Moon Wrasse’ Reviewed by Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne | Plumwood Mountain Journal
‘The lyric mode—for Drummond—becomes a way to decouple language from its enmeshment in the program destroying the world / destroying the possibility for lyric…
Hossein Asgari’s ‘Only Sound Remains’ Reviewed by Max Bledstein | Sydney Review of Books
‘While feelings of hopelessness do not abate for the characters, they are inextricable from the beauty of the literary and cultural allusions prevalent in…
