Books
Darkness alongside peace: Les Wicks virtually launches ‘Suburban Fantasy’ by Michele Seminara
The silent scream: Ali Whitelock virtually launches ‘Suburban Fantasy’ by Michele Seminara
Connections & Shared Histories: Sherryl Clark reviews ‘a ghost gum leans over’ by Myron Lysenko & ‘In This Part of the World’ by Kevin Brophy
Thoughtfully rendered and carefully placed: Angela Costi launches ‘My Mother and The Cat’ by Jeltje Fanoy
This acknowledgment of Traditional Owners of Country has deep significance in the context of launching Jeltje Fanoy’s latest poetry collection, My Mother and The Cat. From the beginning of Jeltje’s long journey as a revered poet, she has demonstrated an unwavering alliance and advocacy for First Nations’ people. Her first collection, Living in Aboriginal Australia, published in 1988, announced a poet who was compelled to dissect their migrant status within the larger lens of colonialism and neoliberalism.
Complex, passionate and inspiring: Robyn Rowland launches ‘I Will Not Bear You Sons’ by Usha Akella.
From the micro to the macroscopic: Indrani Perera launches ‘Wearing My Father’s Hat’ by David Munro
Wearing My Father’s Hat by David Munro Melbourne Poets Union Inc, 2020, was virtually launched by Indrani Perera on 4 November 2020.
The wonderment of the natural world: Dimitra Harvey launches ‘What’s Left’ by Steve Armstrong’
What’s Left by Steve Armstrong, Fllying Island Press 2020 was launched by Dimitra Harvey at The Shop Gallery in Glebe on 21 February 2021
Steve Armstrong reading from What’s Left
In a way, the title of the collection is a question of loss, as much as it’s concerned with what remains. We live at a strange juncture in the history of our species — an era characterised by loss, and loss of our own making. More than at any other time, the dominant nations of the planet live in ways which are absurdly disconnected from the wider, more-than-human world.
Eco-poetry of the most delicate kind: Denise O’Hagan reviews ‘Wide River’ by Jane Frank
In every poetry collection, there is one aspect, one overwhelming impression, that we are left with which later comes to define it for us. In Frank’s Wide River, it is the poet’s quiet insistence on reawakening us to the essential wonder of our world that stays with us.
Rochford Street Review 