the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness
who will become the pitch and cadence the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness? (from ‘trees’, p35) written 2008 to 2022, these poems in six…
Coming to Nothing
Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing…
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…
