The heights of timelessness: Morgan Yasbincek launches ‘The Grand Reopening’ by Toby Davidson
The title taps us all at those points during the pandemic and in life where, after losing the world as we know it, we walked through all that is gone.
poetry
E Wen Wong: 2 Poems
E Wen Wong (Canberra) moved from Ōtautahi to Ngunnawal and Ngambri Land in 2022. Most recently, her poems have appeared in A Clear Dawn, Ko Aotearoa Tatou, No Other Place to Stand, and Landfall. E Wen is currently studying law and science at the Australian National University.
Jen Crawford: 2 Poems
Jen Crawford is a Professor of Creative Writing within the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. She has previously lived and taught in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in Singapore. Her work focuses on the poetics of place, ecological imagination and on cross-cultural engagements in various literary contexts. Her poetry collections include Bad Appendix (Titus Books), Koel (Cordite Books) and A General Image of the Whole Countryside Recovering from the Effects of Winter (forthcoming from Puncher and Wattmann).
Miro Bilbrough: 2 Poems
Miro Bilbrough’s counterculture memoir In the Time of the Manaroans was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2021 and hailed as ‘the best book of non-fiction published in New Zealand in 2020’. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Heat, Written Off, Cordite, Contemporary Feminist Australian Poetry 2016, Australian Poetry Anthology, The Disappearing, Otoliths, Te Pūrere/The Exodus, A Game of Two Halves, Reading Room and Sydney Review of Books; and in her debut chapbook Small-time Spectre.
Angela Stretch: 2 Poems
Angela Stretch lives on Gadigal/ Sydney, She is a poet, curator and writer from Otautahi/ Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The artist uses language and poetry through different mediums and has been exhibited and published nationally, and internationally. She is the director of Poetry Sydney and intelligent animal, and produces Arts Friday on Eastside Radio.
Susan Adams: 2 Poems
Susan Adams was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She has performed and taught ballet internationally, worked as Nursing Consultant/Educator and following her PhD as a Research Scientist. Having come late tp poetry she has nonetheless been published across nine countries in three languages. Her book Beside Rivers was runner up in the prestigious Anne Elder Prize.
Doc Drumheller: 2 Poems
Doc Drumheller has worked in award winning groups for theatre and music and has published 11 collections of poetry. His poems are translated into more than 20 languages. He is the editor and publisher of the New Zealand literary journal Catalyst, and is the editor in chief of the World Congress of Poets literary journal Fuego.
Amanda Anastasi: COP30 Video Poem ‘The Last Call’
Amanda Anastasi was commissioned to write a poetic call to action for COP30 that was a clear, urgent summary of climate impacts across the Oceania region. It was written in response to speakers ranging from policy experts to Indigenous elders at the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) – Oceania Region.
Insight, tenderness, humour, and fire: Esther Ottaway launches ‘Incandescence’ by Susan Austin
In Incandescence, Susan has crafted a collection that arises from the everyday, while expanding into the universal. These themes of parenting, caregiving, surviving a pandemic, holding a marriage together, walking through grief, and making space for joy, even amid exhaustion, mean that her poems glow with warmth and insight, even when they explore moments of deep difficulty.
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