Embracing the Razor
Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as…
The Bulu Line
George Dyuŋgayan was a powerful Nyigina lawman from the Roebuck Plains (east of Broome). Over the course of a life spanning much of the…
The Niqab and the Mumkin
“As Allan Bloom observes, flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among journalists and writers dependent…
Slush Pile
Fourteen years ago Michael Ardenne dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut that won him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy…
Radiance
Shortlisted for the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Radiance is a book firmly grounded in the reality of contemporary life, yet lit by empathy…
Regulator
The poems in Regulator reveal an observant eye and an acute ear; the language is evocative, precise and sensuous. There are poems of the…
Leaves of Glass
Leaves of Glass is based on correspondence between Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Bernard O’Dowd (1866–1953). The letters, more than twenty of which have now…
The Beautiful Anxiety
The Beautiful Anxiety continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global in an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing…
Capital
Among the earlier concerns of Gould’s poems were the interplay of fate and free will, and the emergence of imagination as the natural companion…
Circle Work
The poems in Circle Work are concerned with the everyday, the here-and-now, and how this can feed the imagination. Grounded in the physical immediacy…
