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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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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Public. Open. Space.
Reviewed onWithin this collection, Larsen thoughtfully examines our connections, not only in the digital realm but also in real life, with a specific focus on the challenges faced by women and …
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Clean
Reviewed onScott-Patrick Mitchell’s first full-length collection connects the reader to the addict as human, to place as suburban, and to society as complicit. Clean disrupts the sole burden of guilt on …
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Blue Wren
Reviewed onBlue Wren is the third collection by Bron Bateman: poet, academic and mother of nine. It’s a strong work, structured around a suite of Frida Kahlo paintings, then leading into …
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Acanthus
Reviewed onAcanthus is the third collection of poetry by lauded Perth-born poet Claire Potter. Collapsing formal categories such as human/animal, ancient/modern and urban/natural, these poems open up worlds of strange and wonderful …
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Blue Moon Over Moorea
Reviewed onSally Gaunt’s second collection of poetry begins with a delicate exploration of masculinity through the symbolism of feathers. These hued feather poems paint valour and eroticism but hint at male …
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Paradise (Point of Transmission)
Reviewed onRefreshingly, Andrew Sutherland’s debut poetry collection does not sanitise queer experience. The poems were written between 2017 and 2021, during which time Sutherland was diagnosed HIV-positive and moved from Singapore …
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Cartwarra or What?
Reviewed onAlf Taylor’s poetry and fiction voiced in Nyoongar English are a collection of his best. Nyoongar histories pay necessary attention to a way of life forced by colonisation. Taylor has …
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The first instalment in an intended three-volume collection, John Kinsella’s The Ascension of Sheep: Poems 1980-2005 offers readers of every persuasion cause for reflection. Divided into 40 sections ranging from …
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