In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense ......
In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe turned his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. In Kevin Almighty one of Australia's finest poets extends his send-up of the 2013 election and its aftermath.
A frank account of a four-year struggle with a force that cannot be reasoned with - bipolar. Everybody experiences stress guilt and grief; we all have days when we don't like ourselves very much. Imagine waking up one day and that is all you feel for months and months. But if we are never awake in darkness we can never truly appreciate the ......
Some of these poems reflect the light caught in my daughter's camera during her work in a village community in the Ethiopian Afar. Others are more random shafts of light caught in the prism of my mind and split into a rainbow of reflections about life and death and the half-world of hopes and dreams that lies between. As is the case with rainbows ......
'Stay tuned! Nothing prepares you for the shock of a new voice in poetry and nothing quenches that thirst better than a good dose of poetry. A poetry of place and sensibility can light up a whole landscape and the poetry of Robbie Coburn does just that. In these poems we see him now in the very act of etching out the details so hold on and ......
Two women stepped from the steamship Orient onto Australian soil on a hot December day in 1879. Beatrice Beauchamp epitomises the younger middle-class English woman settler unused to the unpleasant. Yet she combats tragedy and meets challenge and difference with a level of equanimity not commonly expected from one with a genteel upbringing. We ......
'These poems about friendship and belonging - I've had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I've known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to speak of silences and centres - and of breathing and heartbeats the odd fact that one keeps growing older - and of country and time and how to listen ......
'The Edge of Winter is a remarkable achievement by one of our oldest living poets. The poems reveal an inquisitive mind fascinated by the physical world including particularly the ocean and the Merri Merri Creek in Melbourne's north. Connie Barber interrogates herself and the world through which she moves with a clean-edged honesty leavened ......
'With its beer-drenched Blundstones cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat to the dry highways of West Texas ......
