One River
One River is a series of haibun studies of the Hunter River and its tributaries. Haibun is a Japanese poetic form of prose punctuated…
The Interpretation of Cakes
The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget. It’s 1916…
Princess de Cleves
It might be that Madame de Lafayette’s novel of passion is one of the greatest in the genre. It is closer to the declamatory…
AfterLife
“Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer’s is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers…
Einstein’s Brain
An extension of O’Flynn’s previous work, Einstein’s Brain floats somewhere between the hug and the thistle. It contains great variety in terms of subject…
Mourning is Women’s Business
These poems were written over a period of about 20 years. Some relate to living in an Aboriginal community in WA with the last…
The Dilemma of Writing a Poem
The Dilemma of Writing a Poem is divided into three parts: poetica, political poems and mother earth poems. The book as a whole examines…
She Doesn’t Seem Autistic
How could other parents understand she can’t regulate, can’t dress, screams in wind? Their girls touch down, their modules steady, small footsteps breaking the…
What if I Told You? Unlikely Love Poems on Several Occasions
Re-collected over six decades, these love poems show Michael Sharkey to be a true master of the sonnet form. They demonstrate Sharkey the poet…
A Double Act: the Selected Collaborative Poems
A DOUBLE ACT draws upon various intoxicating books—Airborne Dogs, Nutters Without Fetters, Poems of Relative Unlikelihood, and their verse novel The Ferrara Poems—later filmed—and…
