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Issue 42
2025 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival was founded in 1985 by poet and activist Tim Thorne. Thorne’s contribution to poetry in Tasmania and beyond is remembered each year by the awarding of the Tim Thorne Poetry Prize,
Kate Newmann: 3 Poems
Kate Newmann is an Irish poet. She read at the 25th Medellin International Poetry Festival, Colombia, and at the Himalayan Echoes Festival in Nainital, India. She has been involved in many projects, including creative writing with student teachers at a summer camp in Vyborg, Russia, and with the Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, USA. She has published five collections of poetry.
Breath-taking sentience: Cathal Ó Searcaigh introduces Kate Newmann at the Errigal Arts Event, Donegal, Ireland
With her first collection, The Blind Woman in the Blue House, Kate Newmann made her presence felt in Irish poetry. Since then she is a commanding voice, a poet who writes about the tumults of the human heart with a frankness and a tenderness that I value
The harrowing task of truth telling: Judith Nangala Crispin reviews ‘The Nightmare Sequence’ by Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed
The Nightmare Sequence is a profound and deeply moving act of truth-telling created by poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed. It is bravely published by University of Queensland Press, in an almost unprecedented period of censorship in Australia’s artistic and literary scene.
Upending common dichotomies: Leonie Bingham reviews ‘Parallax’ by Robin Morgan.
Parallax is not an easy read, and demands re-reading, which is perhaps its intention. Morgan explores and upends common dichotomies which, to the reader, are inherently familiar: chaos/ order, sanity/i nsanity, religion/science and freedom/ captivity.
The layered structure of the house of poetry: Jennifer Compton launches ‘Intents’ by Anne Elvey
I met Anne Elvey quite a few yonks ago at a soup and haiku night Myron Lysenko hosted when he was living in Brunswick, before he did the tree change thing and relocated to Woodend. I had taken my knitting in case it was boring, but then Anne arrived and sat on the couch next to me
An eloquent case for empathy: Denise O’Hagan reviews The Heart of the Advocate by Angela Costi
With both passion and precision, her poems explore the rift between justice and the law within the often-veiled domestic environment as well as in the courtroom and other more public spaces, in the past and also, urgently, in the present.
The August Katoomba Winter Poetry Readings featuring Brenda Saunders and Louise Wakeling
The Little Lost Bookshop & Rochford Street Review Present The Katoomba Winter Poetry Readings. The August reading, on Thursday 21st July at 6.30pm, will feature Brenda Saunders and Louise Wakeling along with an open mic.
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