‘In Mark Mahemoff’s Urban Gleanings the routine of the urban commute punctured by fragile incidents and ruminations is interspersed with poems drumming against mortality such as the refugees whose “corpses washed to shore / all in the same boat”. Many poems are shaded by nostalgia and a tinkering unease: an ......
See in the places of our lives in the lands of our childhood in the rooms with strange laughter and conversation; how we look back upon those simpler days with their self-styled skills and their innocent reward. See through the chaos of these present years the invisible memories that occasionally spring to mind – of sacrifice ......
'PS Cottier is not an easy poet - she does not play nicely with the other poets is not domesticated. Utterly is the work of a significant Australian writer. It is also the work of a smoking muscle-car loving clever as fuck Canberra girl - devastatingly truthful terrifying and funny. I defy any poetry lover to read these poems and ......
V8 takes you on a journey in every form of vehicle from the car to the bicycle the ute to the train. Two poets reflect on their love of cars the issues that arise from transport and the many roads they have travelled.
'Carol Patterson deserves much wider recognition for her brilliant mastery of the short story form. Each story immerses the reader in an entirely different vividly depicted setting with complex and contrasting characters. Patterson brings these characters to life as they confront a range of human dilemmas and emotional challenges. Her work is ......
Nicola Knox was brought up in country Victoria and her work has always been influenced by the landscapes of childhood despite living since marrying in Sydney that most urban of cities. She worked as a journalist and in public relations with a bypass to writing advertising copy which looking back is probably an excellent day job for a poet. ......
For me poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me interspersed with poems that I simply like. You may notice that a significant number of the poems are to do with various aspects of ......
These fifteen stories range in time from contemporary Australia to sixties Britain in location from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to France. In the title story a woman sits each day at the bedside of her comatose former lover as he clings to life her only consolation in the long hours of watching and waiting are the novels of Leo Tolstoy ......
Kevin Densley’s poetry has been published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years including Quadrant The Adelaide Review LiNQ Muse New England Review Vernacular Mattoid Redoubt Verandah Tamba Space Other Poetry (UK) The Journal (UK) Cadenza (UK) Monkey Kettle ......
