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…
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…
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,…
Furious Triangle
“‘Brief trees begin to elaborate’, says Catherine Vidler in ‘19 lines from Lund’. She herself is a poet who, while admiring restraint and brevity,…
Liber XIX: Differentia Liber
“Paul Hardacre’s lines, packed with music, humming with art and literature, gather in a world that seems marvellously positive in this dark time. The…
Four Oceans
Four Oceans, Toby Davidson’s second collection, confirms his reputation as one of the most expansive and radical voices in the emerging generation of Australian…
Here Be Dragons
Dennis Greene’s poetry is meditative, wry and questing, with surprising irruptions of strangeness. It is built deftly and surely, grounded in subtleties and nuances…
