Xn
Xn might be the shortest poem possible between two letters, a mathematical metaphor for poetry, shorthand for a process that takes something specific and…
Signal Flare
With Signal Flare, Anthony Lawrence continues and extends the lyrical work that began with The Sleep of a Learning Man and which found sustained resonance in…
Tempo
Time and motion are undercurrents in these new poems by Sarah Day. Her subjects encompass the commonplace in the Australian landscape: the remnant beak of a…
Rawshock
Using the Rorschach inkblots as metaphors, conjuring the wondrous and the monstrous in his poems, Toby Fitch brings a new vision and shape to…
On Reflection: A Twenty-Twenty Vision
“This is a genuinely innovative take on self-consciousness: it cheeks the character’s self-pitying hesitation to call himself a poet, celebrates his disappointments and listlessness,…
A First Reader
“John Watson can write a wicked metaphor and a sensuous simile. Insight is underwritten by sly humour in these perceptions of life as art…
When Sky Becomes the Space Inside Your Head
The poems in When Sky Becomes the Space Inside Your Head are a series of lyrical meditations that play with the relationship of inner…
Westering
Shortlisted for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Winner of the William Baylebridge Prize Westering is a dazzling collection. It displays a range of…
Walking on Ashes
These poems explore the horrors and effects of war with fierce, unrelenting attention. The poetry is precise in its details and has a dignity…
Traps and Sanctuaries
In Traps and Sanctuaries, Mark Mahemoff alternates between those experiences of the everyday that act like snares to bedevil us and those that beguile…
