The Bruise of Knowing
This is an important and timely book from a mature, perspicacious voice. Phyllis Perlstone shows us a Monash behind the image on the $100…
Elegy for Emily
The short but remarkable career of American jazz guitarist, Emily Remler (1957-1990), ended with her death, amid still-disputed circumstances, in Sydney in 1990 while…
The Contemptuary
Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set…
Brief Garden
Like its precursor Barnacle Rock, Brief Garden is a collection of poems largely concerned with environmental degeneration and loss. The title poem deals with…
The Clambake
The Clambake is the annual culmination of a new poetry project in Newcastle, NSW—’Cuplet Poetry Night’. Founded by Claire Albrecht in August 2018, the…
Sheet Music
“In Embracing the Razor, Upton handles an impressive range of forms, from free verse to couplets and more intricate rhyming structures….The poems of grief…
Baffling Gravity
Gravity as a physical influence, the weight of gravity, and gravity of thought and action are central to Andrew Sant’s new collection of poems…
On First Looking
On First Looking publishes poems by student writers at Avondale College of Higher Education alongside work by some of Australia’s best contemporary poets. It…
Making Australia Slightly Better than Average Again
Making Australia Slightly Better than Average AgainTM is Mark Swivel’s soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the Senate in 2019. Swivel…
Superette
Superette’s speaker assumes the guise of an audacious flâneuse with a practiced eye for detail. A combination of Dorothy Parker wit, burlesque, and punk,…
