Know Your Country
With language that often reads like stream-of-consciousness but is meticulously wrought, these poems are the work of a restless and intelligent imagination. All of…
Gas Deities
Gas Deities comes from a quest for meaning that negates the big ticket items of ego, intellectual fashion and salvation, for the generative joys of…
Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt
How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kollontai represent a spectre of utopian promises,…
The Hallelujah Shadow
He is a writer who doesn’t want to write, a traveller who ignores the lessons of a serious earthquake, an urbanite who sees the…
Shutting
Succinct and reticent, Lu Piao, also as part of his pen-name, Piao (drifting, fluttering or floating), suggests, is a drifty kind of a poet,…
Digging
Writing like a peasant farming the land, Ren Yi has tentacles deeply rooted in the Chinese soil, often in a violent and bloodthirsty way.
The Lost Craft
As his pen-name (Seashore) suggests, Hai An’s poetry has an oceanic feel to it in its range of history and antiquity, with an eye…
Windfall
In his sixth book, Greg McLaren finds his stories in those of others, and others’ in his. These poems seek, suspect and deepen connection;…
Blindside
Blindside, Mark Reid’s fifth collection, exhibits his accustomed minimalist rigour, a spare & allusive lyric, contemporary, colloquial, committed, seeking the sublime in the everyday.…
Hope Blossoming in their Ink
Hope Blossoming in their Ink is Juan Garrido-Salgado’s sixth poetry collection published in Australia. It is a collection of poems written over more than…
