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…
Palace of Culture
Palace of Culture is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture.…
Sly Mongoose
In Sly Mongoose the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s…
Basket of Sunlight
“Meredith Wattison is one of our most edgy and luminous practitioners. Her poems build towards a contained, steady precision, and her language has an…
