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 ......
'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 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 ......
'Doug Gregory is a people watcher with a keen eye and a sharp memory. His latest book is a poetic memoir tinged with nostalgic pathos. There are some classic images and memories in it and I love the humour. The poems are honest the language colloquial as Gregory crafts candid and clever portraits of times past and of people he's known. The ......
Poems of Dissent and Social Commentary for Performance
I want my poetry to say something about the state of our world this catastrophic social and environmental situation we are bringing on ourselves. So my work is social critique and revolves around dissent contradiction dissonance; and I write about gender violence war refugees and asylum environment and climate change. I am ......
In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art the natural world the intimacy of love human caprice. These poems will stop you in your tracks with the force of their emotional intensity.
‘…a highly intelligent inventive and gifted poet…’ – Les Murray
This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge it is sheltered by tall silver-top eucalypts with their rough grey bark. Each year, the number of insects, birds reptiles and other animals declines, prey to loss of habitat and hard ......
'The majority of poems in The Persistence of History describe Graeme Hetherington's engagement with David Keeling's paintings. As a form of ekphrasis Hetherington's responses to Keeling's art are rarely detailed descriptions of the paintings themselves but rather personal responses to the works evoking memories of his own life's ......
Fulfilling a lifelong dream and buying a rural property the writer is surprised to discover the farm becomes a rich source of poetic inspiration. This collection is the outcome of over three decades of reflection and writing about the joys and sorrows of a small farmer. With boyhood memories of Australian wheat-belt farms and ideas from ......
