Michelle Leber’s ‘The Yellow Emperor’ reviewed by Ruby Todd
“Through spare, vivid images, Leber deftly conveys a sense of the immediacy of history, the materiality of myth, and the way that the singular detail can convey a truth that is timeless and universal.”...
View ArticleMichelle Leber’s ‘The Yellow Emperor’ reviewed by Lucy Van
“Leber is a Melbourne-based poet and a clinician of Chinese medicine, and in this, her second volume of poetry, she merges the two practices in an archaeological translation of Han mythology that finds...
View Article‘Breaking New Sky’, edited by Ouyang Yu, reviewed by Dimitra Harvey
“Breaking New Sky, a new collection of poems selected and translated by Ouyang, presents work from forty-six established and emerging Chinese (including Taiwanese) poets, born predominantly between the...
View ArticleMichelle Leber’s ‘The Yellow Emperor’ reviewed by Geoff Page
“Leber is adept at suggesting characteristics of the Chinese ‘original’, as it were, while generating compelling poetry in modern English…The Yellow Emperor is a strange but curiously satisfying...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Cassandra Atherton
“The kinship Elvey forges between her poems and ecological criticism lends both rigour and reverence to her first full-length collection of poetry. There is a radiant stasis at the core of her poems...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Michael Farrell
“The poems of Anne Elvey’s Kin, dedicated to her father, elaborate on the title, productively making it stand for blood and other kinds of relation. There’s a level of intimate observation to these...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Geoff Page
“Kin is Anne Elvey’s first full collection, following on from three chapbooks, and its maturity shows. Though, as with any first collection, its manner and content can vary somewhat, Elvey’s book is...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Rose Lucas
“Kin, Anne Elvey’s first full collection of poetry, brings together a wide range of poems full of light and the acuity of close attention. These poems focus on a world of interrelationships where tree...
View ArticleJennifer Compton’s ‘Now You Shall Know’ reviewed by Luke Simon
“‘Now You Shall Know’, a poem filled with complex imagery, painful dialogue and dramatic verve, won the Newcastle Poetry Prize and is [Compton’s] latest eponymous poetry collection. The book is divided...
View ArticleJennifer Compton’s ‘Now You Shall Know’ reviewed by Geoff Page
“Jennifer Compton’s new collection, Now You Shall Know, has an early late-career energy about it – and a focus on what is really important. Not for her the post-postmodern language games. As she notes...
View Articlerob walker’s ‘tropeland’ reviewed by Lucy Alexander
“walker seems to swim in language, and he is dolphin-quick with his word play and banter” The full review, published in Verity La, can be found here. tropeland can be purchased here.
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ reviewed by Michael Aiken
“This book contains microcosms of alertness to the oddity of language as language, the arbitrary way meaning is distorted or inflected by unfamiliar acts of repetition, the use of phrases grammatically...
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ features on three ‘Best of 2015′ lists
It is with great pride that we see Ouyang Yu’s superb collection Fainting with Freedom featuring on three ‘Best of 2015′ lists from the following readers: Authors on the Readings bookstore website....
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ reviewed by Elena Gomez
“Though a playful exploration of the sounds, textures and semantics of English and Chinese languages, this collection hints at a deeper ambiguity with the world and how we make meaning of and in it.”...
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ reviewed by Ali Jane Smith
“Fainting with Freedom includes prose poems, easy-to-read lyric poems, strange disjointed poems, thin poems, wide poems, long and short poems, poems that speak plainly and poems that cut up words....
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ reviewed by Bonny Cassidy
“The poems in Fainting with Freedom emphasize that empathy is not sameness, just as dwelling should not be confused with belonging, nor language with unity. Rather, the ‘state’ to which Yu belongs is...
View ArticleOuyang Yu’s ‘Fainting with Freedom’ reviewed by Tse Hao Guang
“Ouyang Yu’s Fainting with Freedom is soap-bubble language. It lives halfway between being and becoming, full of conversational breath, reflective of the mind that created it, bilingual and annoyed,...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Dimitra Harvey
“At her best, Elvey observes human embeddedness within complex, vibrant, non-human spheres with keen linguistic control and playfulness.” The full review, published in Mascara Literary Review, can be...
View ArticleAnne Elvey’s ‘Kin’ reviewed by Barnaby Smith
“in the elegant Kin, Elvey offers a compelling and sonorous interpretation [of ecopoetics]. For her, it is the poetics of compassion and kindness, extending in every direction possible.” The full...
View ArticleLouise Nicholas’s ‘The List of Last Remaining’ reviewed by Geoff Page
“The List of Last Remaining is a timely collection from Adelaide poet Louise Nicholas and should help bring her the national attention she has long deserved.” The full review, published in The Sydney...
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