A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
I think this is a marvellous and engrossing publication which so beautifully showcases how the two art forms complement and enhance each other – there haven’t been too many collaborations between differing artists in Australian poetry
Stephen Edgar’s newest book is his thirteenth over thirty eight years, and follows from his much acclaimed The Strangest Place: New and Selected Poems 2020, which won The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2021.
The Shadow Box is a wonderful book by one of the country’s most consummate poets.
As this book is dedicated to John Foulcher’s brother, Ian, nothing can be underestimated about the tinge of grief as each poem flutters in and out of a sense of religious faith and that’s faith’s challenges. The moon landing, the paintings of Crewdson, and physical love, the body is paramount as our capsule and here it is presented in its ragged faults and its skin passion.