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…
The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street
In this stunning, visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson offers cautionary threnodies that muse on environment and the endurance of theme park notions of the…
The Welfare of My Enemy
Too much information can be hard to swallow. Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow. Evidence blows away when the earth…
The Ringing World
This engaging collection charts a wild ride, from the language of the laboratory to the surprises of hetero-sex to the yearnings of the about-to-be-cannibalised.…
The Old Humanists
courting on a verandah under a sulphurous moon with her father all ears in the bathroom stropping his razor to the rhythm of the…
