The bulk of this collection is devoted to the achievements of two pioneers Joshua Slocum and Percy Fawcett. Captain Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone - between 1892 and 1895 in a converted oyster fishing boat on his return chronicling his experiences in the book Sailing Alone Around the World. Colonel Fawcett was an ......
'Virginia Lowe's poems evoke life experiences such as parenting marriage and growing up and meditate on them in moving and unexpected ways. This latest collection displays her hallmark wry humour and tenderness linking intense personal moments to wider human concerns. And her love of language and reading shines throughout her poetry.' - ......
The Music of the Streets is Michael Robinson's second collection of poetry. His first The Tiger in the Vineyard was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Poems in this collection (or earlier drafts of them) have appeared in the following print and online journals: Poetry MattersStudio ......
'This is a vast collection of meaty poetry and it traverses diverse topics with irreverent wordplay and dirty-hearted love. To be truthful and self-expressive under the vicious hail of mental illness is not easy. There are so many repeatable quips but I quote here lines about Andy who was my always partner: "It spoke at him constantly / ......
the moon’s reminder explores five realms of ‘m’ from maps to moths. Here are poems where ‘sea is breathing’ and ‘sky bleeds’ where a ‘night for knots’ feels ‘the weight of silence’ – poems for unexamined moments.
Working in the Australian bush for almost forty years has brought forth from Tim Metcalf a robust adaptable and independent poetry the downside being that he is less known in the urban centres. This selection from his nine books aims to redress the situation and bring this wide-ranging and extensively published poet to broader attention.
‘Each of these fifty-seven offerings is a tone poem that condenses intensely personal impressions into gems of language accessible and inviting surpassing the writer’s previous engrossing collection. The volume flows: The language is so vivid the imagery so palpable that the individual pieces spring from the page. They ......
The Medicine Wheel turns through each of the eight sections in this collection with the poems gathered into each part touching on many subjects: nature poems running through the seasons personality portraits social concerns – such as the plight of refugees the treatment of animals and persecution leading one to consider the ......
'In The mathematics of love Sonia Hunt uses irony with flair whether she is teasing her resident mathematician in "An orange for you" with "I wanted to show you/ how an orange is peeled / but I was stopped/ by its bite on my tongue" or mocking herself in the playful Migraine sequence: "migraine is a lot like childbirth / you really ......
