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…
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…
