Hello Keanu! A Poetry Anthology
Reviewed onA long time ago, the world was not particularly keen on Keanu Reeves. It’s hard to believe that now, but it’s fair to say that Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, …
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A Gentle Outward Breath
Reviewed onFran Graham’s is a poetry of particularities and the present. But A Gentle Outward Breath, her second collection and first in over 10 years, the period during which these poems …
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If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears
Reviewed onTo call this remarkable collection merely an exploration of motherhood would be akin to calling Ulysses a travelogue. For in her frighteningly forensic poems on pregnancy, childbirth and being a …
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Woven
Reviewed onIt’s possible the term polyphony, when used in a literary sense, has never been more appropriately applied that to this sonorous poetry collection, Woven. Because yes, there is a multiplicity …
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the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness
Reviewed onThe evocative narrative within Marcella Polain’s the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness delves into the inescapable depths of sorrow and the author’s search for love, gratitude, hope, and acceptance. The …
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Who Comes Calling?
Reviewed onMiriam Wei Wei Lo is a Canadian-born, Fremantle-based poet of Chinese-Malaysian and Anglo-Australian descent who “writes because life is too short to let it pass without comment.” Her first collection, …
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Ghost Poetry
Reviewed onMelbourne-based poet Robbie Coburn’s latest poetry collection gallops and canters across the page; but it also soars Pegasus-like above a physical and emotional landscape where herds of fantasies, dreams and …
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Right Way Down and other poems
Reviewed onIt is something of a job perk to sign up for a book review only to find oneself thinking about one’s own writing and creativity. But then, Right Way Down …
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Breaking the Surface
Reviewed onAs Perth, Western Australia-based author and poet Ian Reid writes of his fine new collection of poetry Breaking the Surface, “This volume celebrates my return to the genre of poetry …
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Clean
Reviewed onAnyone who ever made anything worthwhile is or was an addict of sorts. In this impressive first (full-length) collection, Scott-Patrick Mitchell (hereafter SPM) brings us news from hell. And it’s …
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