3 Poems: Chad Norman
Chad Norman lives and writes in Truro, Nova Scotia. In 1992 he was awarded the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award For Poetry, which was judged by Margaret Atwood, Barry Callaghan, and Al Purdy.
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Grace and dexterity: Les Wicks Launches Ellen Shelley’s ‘Out of the Blocks’
There’s a certain relentless quality to this book, a refusal to stand still. “To falter becomes a fissure for the grime”. This is both an engine driving us through this uneasy though forgiven world alongside a promise that the explorations evident in this book are not the end of the story, just the beginning.
The Birth of the Universe: A poem by Ivy Ireland
Ivy Ireland is the author of the poetry collections Incidental Complications (2007), Porch Light (2015), The Owl Inside (2020) and Tide (2023). Ivy’s literary awards include the Australian Young Poet Fellowship, the Olga Masters Short Story Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Thunderbolt Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize local award, and runner-up in the UC International Poetry Prize.
Making Sorties into the Unknown: Brook Emery launches ‘Tide’ by Ivy Ireland
I’ve read and admired Ivy Ireland’s three previous books of poetry. This afternoon, simply, subjectively, in five minutes, I’d like to share with you five reasons why I keep reading Ivy’s poetry and why you, too, might enjoy the poems in Tide.
Robbie Coburn 7 Poems
Robbie Coburn is a poet based in Melbourne, described by ArtsHub as ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’. His verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025. His poetry collections include Ghost Poetry (2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (2023), and The Other Flesh (2019), and he has published a number of chapbooks, including Before Bone and Viscera (Rochford Press, 2014).
Creatures, colours, textures and scents: Lucy Dougan launches ‘the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness’ by Marcella Polain and ‘coming to nothing’ by Morgan Yasbincek
When you read these books you’ll see that the work is supported by a network of women sharing their work – the Saturday Writing Sisters – and also women critiquing and editing each other’s work.
Dorothy Lune: 3 Poems
Dorothy Lune is a Yorta Yorta poet, born in Australia & a best of the net 2024 nominee. Her poems have appeared in Overland journal, Many Nice Donkeys & more.
The remembered territory of the past: Mark O’Flynn reviews ‘Feldspar’ by Brendan Ryan.
This idea of returning forms one of the central tropes of Feldspar in both a figurative and literal sense. Many of these poems revisit scenes of the past, of the casual rituals of life down on the farm.
An exploration of deep connections: Magdalena Ball launches ‘Tarp Green Light’ by Carl Walsh
If I had to sum up Carl Walsh’s Tarp Green Light in one word it would be mindful. The work focuses inward, quietly observant, converting memory into the present moment through deep and sustained observation.
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