Sunset on Santorini
You could build this hotel of ours here with a spoon This rock is soft as cake And the currants are bombs of black…
Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve: Micro-Essays on Judgement and Justice
Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would…
Slo-Mo Tsunami
Bruce Dawe has received wide recognition as Australia’s most popular poet, his books often being set for study at secondary and tertiary levels. Slo-Mo…
Skin Theory
“On the crudest level it takes a lot of energy to sustain a nineteen book career in a generally blasé literary culture like Australia’s.…
Raw Nerve
These poems are a powerful domestic narrative about families and the suffering that sometimes come with them: the loss of children, the rituals which…
Proofs
The actor who can’t leave the stage – like the sales rep who lives in transit, the stenographer who throws himself on the mercy…
Paragliding in a War Zone
“Paragliding in a War Zone works like a performance enhancing drug on the brain. Louise Wakeling turns poetry into an extreme pastime, a breathtaking…
Out to Lunch
Shortlisted for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry “This is generous poetry. Out to Lunch is a book of sustenance, pleasure and tender…
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…
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,…
