Cartography of the Heart: Liana Joy Christensen launches ‘Good Grief’ by Coral Carter
Carter’s work is indelibly Australian, her poems are green shoots in cultural landscapes that have been ravaged with griefs, both personal and apocalyptic.
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Obedience, coercion & the ability to push back: Mark Roberts reviews ‘A Simple Intervention’ by Yael Inokai
A simple Intervention is a powerful allegory of obedience and coercion and the ability to push back. The narrative is sparse and simple yet driven by a strong filmic imagery.
A true, brave pugilistic poet: Mike Rann launches ‘Nostalgic Adelaide’ by Geoff Goodfellow
For four decades Geoff has taken his poetry and performed it in schools, prisons, youth detention centres, universities, pubs, factories, construction sites, police academies and board rooms as well as at literary festivals around Australia and overseas.
Range and sensitivity: Mark Mahemoff reviews ‘New Ordinance for the Dead’ by Ron Atilano
Much of Ron’s work has this “carved in granite quality.” Not only because of the strength of its imagery but also its conviction.
Threads that weave between poems: Emilie Collyer launches ‘Alight on all things precious’ by Sarah Rice
The multiple meanings of the title of Sarah’s beautiful collection introduces us to how playful and clever with language this book is, and also how every poem has multiple strands and potential interpretations.
Nature, myth and everyday life: Barbara Dunne reviews ‘Ballast’ By Jamie O’Halloran
O’Halloran explores the personal grief of her own losses and widens the lens to encompass loss as part of the human condition. She is generous in her compassion for the unnamed and the unknown dead.
Turning great & small events into poetry: Beatriz Copello reviews ‘Ring the Bells’ by Colleen Keating
Colleen Keating is among the most illustrious and excellent writers and poets, it was an honour for me to review her book. Beautiful, inspirational, true to life, I enjoyed reading every poem.
Humility, generosity & understanding: Michael Campbell launches ‘A Blink of Time’s Eye’ by David Adès
In agreeing to launch A Blink of Time’s Eye I feel very daunted, very nervous, as to whether I can live up to the faith that David has placed in me, and I hope I can give this moment the touch of both lightness and gravitas that characterises his poetry.
Soulful Empiricism: Liana Joy Christensen launches ‘The Twilight Observatory’ by Jennifer Kornberger
The Twilight Observatory demands of a reader the willingness to take risks, to engage with matters beyond traditional borders. This challenge is something not everyone has the ovarios for. But hers is not cryptic poetry and nor is it self-indulgent.