The recreation of memory: Mark Roberts launches ‘Some Dualities’ and ’28 Sonnets’ by Michael Witts
There is much to read and enjoy in Some Dualities, the poems are often witty, nearly always insightful and often honestly personal.
Mark Roberts
P76 Issue 9. Mark Roberts – ‘Returns’
Mark Roberts is a writer, critic and publisher living on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land. He is co-editor, along with Linda Adair, of Rochford Street Review. His last poetry collection, Concrete Flamingos, was published by Island Press in 2016. His next collection, The Office of Literary Endeavours, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2025.
Playful complexity: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Flying North for Winter’ by Pete Spence
Pete Spence is a poet/artist who stands, for the most part, outside the mainstream of Australian poetry. Over decades Spence has built up a considerable body of work, most of it appearing in small independent magazines and in books and chapbooks published by small presses. Which brings us to his 2022 chapbook Flying North for Winter, published by now orries press.
Mark Roberts talks poetry, politics and publishing with Tina Giannoukos
This interview with Mark Roberts by Tina Giannoukos was broadcast on 3CR on Thursday, 21 September 2023 as part of Spoken Word: a program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance
A fragile dance: Mark Roberts reviews ‘pressed specimens’ by Moya Costello
pressed specimens is a unique collection. Costello has taken images of dried, pressed plant specimens from the collection of the Medicinal Plant Herbarium at Southern Cross University (Lismore Campus) as inspiration for a series of prose poems.