David Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Finley at Collins Booksellers Mildura
‘Host City accomplishes a feeling of absolute realness… something better than either memoir or novel alone: a newly minted myth, so alive and fresh…
David Owen Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | SMH/The Age
‘The fictional elements are realised with a full-bloodedness and emotional delicacy reminiscent of Edmund White.’ A great review of David Kelly‘s Host City…
Catherine McNamara’s ‘The Carnal Fugues’ Reviewed by Debra Adelaide | Australian Book Review
‘Intriguing and cosmopolitan, McNamara’s stories are infused with historical weight and a worldly wisdom suggestive of timeless, even epic, narrative.’ A cracker of a…
Jill Jones’ ‘Acrobat Music’ Reviewed by Andy Jackson | Sydney Review of Books
‘With their proliferation of question marks and hypotheticals, and their music, these poems rouse, prod, and rattle. They invite us to inhabit our own…
Kathryn Lomer’s ‘AfterLife’ Reviewed by Anthony Lynch | Australian Book Review
‘Written mostly in free verse with occasional forays into rhyme, AfterLife is an elegant, beautifully cadenced collection that addresses major themes with economy and…
Helen Hayward’s ‘Home Work’ Reviewed by Brooke Boland | The Saturday Paper
‘Hayward writes thoughtfully about the value we give to housekeeping and the domestic side of our lives’ Brooke Boland’s fine review of Helen…
Andrew Sant’s ‘Near the Border’ Reviewed by Geoff Page | Australian Book Review
‘A poet of remarkable consistency, not only in overall quality, but in tone and concerns.’ Geoff Page’s insightful review of Andrew Sant’s Near the…
Greg McLaren’s ‘Camping Underground’ Reviewed by Anders Villani | Australian Book Review
‘Sections range in length from a word – ‘Cholera’ – to several pages. Plot-driven stanzas abut atmospheric, reflective turns, or sardonic humour.’ Anders Villani’s…
Alex Skovron’s ‘Letters from the Periphery’ Reviewed by Anne Elvey | Plumwood Mountain Journal
‘Skovron skilfully matches his characteristically sophisticated build-up of narrative, imagery, existential inquiry with a necessary understatement of the horrors of the worst of human…
Steve Armstrong’s ‘One River’ Reviewed by Maggie Ball | Compulsive Reader
‘…the writing follows the gentle rambling of the river catchment and the rhythm of human perambulation – walking purely for the pleasure of it…
