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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.
I really enjoyed the way in which the chronological order of the collection reflects the evolution of Angela’s thinking and her response to the moral issues she’s been confronted with when she was a practising lawyer.
I am happy to announce the triumphant arrival of Cathy Altmann’s third book of poetry. Triumphant because despite the public and personal exhaustion of COVID, with its insistence on longevity, Cathy birthed, gathered and salvaged thirty-nine poems, turning them into a collection of attentive and intuitive distillations for our times.
Angela Costi is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot diaspora, which is her heritage and ancestry. She lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung unceded land. She is the author of five poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Adversarial Practice, Cordite Poetry Review, 2024.
Earlier is an immersive composite of free verse and lyric found in condensed stanzas and in cascading spaces with intermittent words. This is a collection adept at employing the requisite form for the subject or theme of the poem.
Rochford Street Review – 2023 Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement. Angela will be performing in two events for the festival: Sustain – What We Carry Across Time and Place and Sound Poets at the Cherry Tree: poetry by Angela Costi and Peter Davis performed with Soundscapes and Music
Rochford Street Review Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement. Angela Costi. Angela will be performing in two events for the festival: Sustain – What We Carry Across Time and Place and Sound Poets at the Cherry Tree: poetry by Angela Costi and Peter Davis performed with Soundscapes and Music
This is penetrating yet humble poetry. Poems that fall off the tongue as gratifying as water. Some written in ways that remind me of curved, cascading terraced hillsides. Taking me to places of serenity by honouring our daily encounters found within ceilings and walls, fences and yards, streets and parks, skin and bone.
This is a book with a significant vision. It brings renowned thinkers into a communal space, like a galvanising symposium or an inspiring protest. Each thinker, by activating their various practices through art, poetry, speeches and essays, moves us towards a just and ecologically sustainable, peaceful existence.
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