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What I really love about Nawid’s poems is the way in which he follows his ‘own heart’s language’ – to use a phrase by Jane Hirshfield. Perhaps one of the dangers of writing poetry which explores the spiritual quest is to fall back on the old cliches, but Mal is such a skilful poet that he finds unique metaphors and analogies to articulate Nawid’s feelings and thinking.
An utter delight in language propels so many of the poems. Josh has such a natural fluency and feeling for how to let a poem become itself – it all feels effortless! – and he combines this with much wit and delightful leaps of thought.
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.
Andrew Taylor is the author of nineteen books of poetry, the most recent being Impossible Preludes (Margaret River Press, 2016), the chapbook Coogee Poems Plus with art work by Travis Taylor (Baden Press 2021) and Shore Lines (Pitt Street Poetry 2023).
In this new book of poetry Mark deepens and extends his range with a particular focus on ekphrasis, which in very rough terms means using one form of art or literature to describe or respond to what is seen in a different form of art or literature.
Linda Adair is a poet and a publisher of Rochford Press, and co-editor of Rochford Street Review and a (re)emerging artist. Her many Irish ancestors arrived in the early to mid 19th century, to escape the English occupation of Eire and the politicisation of the food shortage which became a polite genocide but was rebranded as the Great Famine. Born on Darug Land in the era of the ‘Great Australian Silence’ of what colonisation really meant, Adair explores the stories of women and men marginalised by history in her poems.
Molly Twomey, one of Ireland’s most vibrant contemporary voices. marked the centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce in 2022 with The Citizen’s Wife, a poetry film by SoFFt Productions which was commissioned by ANU, Landmark and MoLI in partnership with Poetry Ireland and premiered on-line on 16 June 2022.
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