Sofie Westcombe’s ‘Timestamps’ reviewed by Alison Flett
‘Ambitious in intent, clean and precise in execution, [Timestamps is] an impressive debut that embraces uncertainty with linguistic bravado, celebrating the extraordinariness of the everyday.’ The full...
View ArticleAnders Villani’s ‘Aril Wire’ reviewed by Adam Ford
‘Villani demonstrates bold and unexpected challenges to unspoken poetic conventions. What he achieves creatively and intellectually as a result marks him as someone who is prepared to think deeply...
View ArticleGareth Jenkins’‘Recipes for the Disaster’ reviewed by Michael Aiken
‘Recipes for the Disaster is intense, monolithic, and casually personable. A treasure to delve into again and again.’ The full review, published in Backstory, can be found here. Recipes for the...
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Anna Ryan-Punch’s ‘Night Fishing’ reviewed by Geoff Page
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View ArticleJo Langdon’s ‘Glass Life’ reviewed by William Farnsworth
‘Langdon’s poems are sweet, tender, angry, exciting, reflective, sad, and ecstatic, all varying on differing ideas, phrases and situations. Its key themes of fragility and strength are what keep these...
View ArticleJo Langdon’s ‘Glass Life’ reviewed by J V Birch
‘These poems waltz you and leave you spinning, are their own tiny worlds – building, shifting, falling.’ The full review, published in Plumwood Mountain, can be found here. Glass Life can be purchased...
View ArticleKristen Lang’s ‘The Weight of Light’ reviewed by Mary Cresswell
‘The poems in this collection have an extraordinary range of topic and of voice, all acting to link the lightness of spirit with the heavy reality that we bump around in every day.’ The full review,...
View ArticleJill Jones’s ‘Brink’ reviewed by Autumn Royal
‘In continuation with a lot of poetry responding to ecological concerns, Jones necessarily merges the ecopoetical with the elegiac and alludes to the dystopian. As each page of the book is turned the...
View ArticleJill Jones’s ‘Brink’ reviewed by Anne Elvey
‘Jill Jones’ Brink is a book to spend time with, to contemplate and in it to encounter a mature writing where the multiplicity of selves, grounds, and contemporary ruptures are faced courageously and...
View ArticleJill Jones’s ‘Brink’ reviewed by Magdalena Ball
‘The poetry in Jill Jones’ Brink is full of disjunction, rhythm and atonality that comes together smoothly in a way that feels entirely appropriate to the modern world.’ The full review, published in...
View ArticleKristen Lang’s ‘The Weight of Light’ reviewed by Amelia Walker
‘The Weight of Light [is] a sensually metaphysical collection that subtly yet profoundly ekes out interrelations between humans and animals, language and nature, technology and the immaterial.’ The...
View ArticleSteve Brock’s ‘Double Glaze’ reviewed by Melinda Graefe
‘Steve Brock’s second volume of poems, Double Glaze, provides a window onto the city and suburban life that he shares with other Adelaideans—commuters, restaurateurs, a World War Two veteran, a...
View ArticleRose Hunter’s ‘glass’ reviewed by Mags Webster
‘At the centre of these poems is a roaming exile – the source of a rich and chaotic geography. Twenty-one poems in three sections – ‘mexico city’, ‘jalisco’ and ‘brisbane’ – piece together a map of...
View ArticleJill Jones’s ‘Brink’ reviewed by J.M. Schreiber
‘The poems in this collection, which range from the lyrical to the linguistic and experimentally playful, examine the emotions, images, and concerns that reflect an awareness of place and of the...
View ArticleRose Hunter’s ‘glass’ reviewed by Kishore Ryan
‘glass is a collection of elegiac poems, a memoir of free verse about the poet’s travels through Mexico and her own debilitating ailment.’ The full review, published in Cordite, can be found here....
View ArticleGayelene Carbis’s ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ reviewed by Autumn Royal
‘The poetry in this collection spans between the ‘anecdotal’ and the ‘evidenced’ and, given the prejudiced readings of women’s writing, it calls for a new verdict rather than an expected one.’ The full...
View ArticleGayelene Carbis’s ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ reviewed by Geoff Page
‘[Anecdotal Evidence is] a book that holds closely and authentically to the frustrating complexity of life as we live it, especially within families and relationships.’ The full review, published in...
View ArticleRose Hunter’s ‘glass’ reviewed by Angela Gardner
‘These are highly polished and controlled poems wielded with great skill and a consequent audacity that comes from getting it right.’ The full review, published in foam:e, can be found here. glass can...
View ArticleJill Jones’s ‘Brink’ reviewed by Toby Fitch
‘The poems…in all their multiplicity, evoke and explore being on the brink – of knowing, feeling, sensing, and making sense’ The full review, published in ABR, can be found here. Brink can be purchased...
View ArticleStuart Cooke’s ‘Opera’ reviewed by Caitlin Maling
‘In Opera parts of the world appear, and as readers we are placed amongst them as Cooke’s music teaches us how we might sing and move as one of a chorus.’ The full review, published in Plumwood...
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