A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Alison Gorman is a poet and creative writing teacher who lives and writes on Garigal and Worimi country. A Woman Talks to Her Tongue is her debut poetry collection. Her poetry has appeared in Cordite, Island, Honest Ulsterman, Meanjin, Mslexia, Popshot Quarterly, Southerly and Southword.
When I compare Ken Bolton’s back catalogue to his latest work Metropole, I’m struck by the remarkable consistency of his style. In the inner southern suburb of Adelaide where he now lives, Ken Bolton is still writing almost the same poem he was over forty years ago, and that is not a criticism but a compliment.
Colin Dardis’s recent poetry collections include with the lakes (above/ground press, 2023) and What We Look Like in the Future (Red Wolf Editions, 2023). A neurodivergent poet, editor and sound artist, he currently co-hosts the Poetry Poetry open mic night in Belfast, and is editor of the poetry blog, Poem Alone.
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm. She is the winner of the 2024 Woorilla Prize, the 2024 Ada Cambridge Prize for Poetry and her poem, ‘Notes from Greenland’ was shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award (2024). She has three collections of poetry, Bone (Halas Press, 2021), Gentle Creatures (Vagabond Press, 2023) and Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024).
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.
The Little Lost Bookshop, Katoomba and Rochford Street Review have combined to run a series of poetry readings at the bookshop over winter. The first of these three readings will take place this coming at 6.30pm, Thursday night, 19 June at the bookshop, Hapenny Lane, 181 Katoomba St, Katoomba NSW 2780.
Poet and translator of poets, Peter Boyle (Melbourne, Australia, 1951) began publishing relatively late — he broke the ice at the age of 42 with his book Coming Home from the World — but since then he has not looked back, completing more than 11 poetry books and being equally prolific and generous as a translator of Spanish-language poets.
Shey has a distinguished track-record of short-listings and publications. The Hum Hearers was short-listed for the Dorothy Hewett Award, individual poems have been noticed in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Woorilla Poetry Prize and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, among others.
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