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I’ve read and admired Ivy Ireland’s three previous books of poetry. This afternoon, simply, subjectively, in five minutes, I’d like to share with you five reasons why I keep reading Ivy’s poetry and why you, too, might enjoy the poems in Tide.
Robbie Coburn is a poet based in Melbourne, described by ArtsHub as ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’. His verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025. His poetry collections include Ghost Poetry (2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (2023), and The Other Flesh (2019), and he has published a number of chapbooks, including Before Bone and Viscera (Rochford Press, 2014).
When you read these books you’ll see that the work is supported by a network of women sharing their work – the Saturday Writing Sisters – and also women critiquing and editing each other’s work.
Dorothy Lune is a Yorta Yorta poet, born in Australia & a best of the net 2024 nominee. Her poems have appeared in Overland journal, Many Nice Donkeys & more.
This idea of returning forms one of the central tropes of Feldspar in both a figurative and literal sense. Many of these poems revisit scenes of the past, of the casual rituals of life down on the farm.
If I had to sum up Carl Walsh’s Tarp Green Light in one word it would be mindful. The work focuses inward, quietly observant, converting memory into the present moment through deep and sustained observation.
If you pick this up, you won’t want to put it down until you have finished reading it. That’s what happened to me when Suniti sent it as a manuscript. The first sentence in chapter 1 is: ‘I’ve fallen in love with the woman next door.’
Some books I’m not sure if I consume them or they consume me. Chinese fish has an amazing hypnotic clarity. Page turning, subterranean transitions keep moving me forward, they flow with no catch of air to breathe, a woman’s way book.