On not knowing
On not knowing In December I responded to remarks by Fairfax book critic Andrew Riemer concerning Lionel G Fogarty’s poem in the Best Australian Poems…
Future tense: speculation and magic in recent Australian poetry
Last year, around the release of Lisa Gorton’s Hotel Hyperion, it occurred to me that a speculative tradition had quietly become established within recent…
How Soon is Now?
How soon is now? Published in last Saturday's Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew Riemer’s review of The Best Australian Poems 2013 is…
Poetry with strangers
In the cramped back room of the bar, a group of about thirty people appear to be quietly sitting on one another’s laps. Though…