Personal Logistics
Reviewed onPersonal Logistics is East Kimberley-based poet Chris Palazzolo’s first poetry collection with Fremantle Press. Palazzolo studied literature, philosophy and communications at Murdoch University, so it should come as no surprise …
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Wingbeat
Reviewed onIn the introduction to his debut collection which gathers poems written between 2016 and 2023, Tim Kinsella writes that he was ‘surrounded by poetry from a very young age.’ Indeed: …
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Ekhō
Reviewed onThe voices of Ekhō the unfortunate Oread from Greek Mythology and Alexa the unfortunate AI voice service platform from Amazon variously resonate (and at points converge, coalesce and converse) in …
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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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