Once described by Andrew Sant as a 'great talent' Andrys Onsman writes from a migrant's perspective; both joyfully engaged and warily observant. His poetry plays essays and translations often focus on how relationships between people and ideas shape the way in which they construct their world.
On a lonely highway in the middle of the night two teenage Aboriginal girls are killed in a crash. Like rag dolls their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out ......
Writing these sestinas has brought to mind all the amazing lives that have touched mine and have made me realise just how precious every single strand has been. The sestina was invented by the twelfth-century mathematician Arnaud Daniel. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in a set formula throughout the poem. I have found this form ......
‘The imagery and sound in Johnson’s landscape pieces such as ‘Embroidery’ and ‘Endlessly Passing’ showcase this poet at her lyrical best.’ - Lesley Walter
‘The emotional honesty of her writing is impressive; so is the questioning intelligence behind these vivid vignettes.’ - Jean ......
When Emma Bentham disappears without explanation two men are thrown into turmoil - David Chess who was having an affair with Emma and her husband Daniel a technician in David’s university department. Has Emma left them both for someone else? David’s sorrow at losing Emma leads him into strange and perilous behaviours and into ......
'The Edge of Winter is a remarkable achievement by one of our oldest living poets. The poems reveal an inquisitive mind fascinated by the physical world including particularly the ocean and the Merri Merri Creek in Melbourne's north. Connie Barber interrogates herself and the world through which she moves with a clean-edged honesty leavened ......
‘Williamson’s working life poems have a real strength and as with so much of his work it really soars when he is describing the natural environment and wildlife.’ – Les Wicks
‘Jane Williams’s first collection of haiku delights with all the insight and generosity that her readers admire in her longer works of poetry. In distillations that are alive to the small and fleeting moments of life and the echoes they ring in the heart Echoes of Flight is joyous and life-affirming and a welcome addition ......
Poems of loss and recovery since the Black Summer bushfires
'This powerful collection leads readers through the harrowing reality of losing everything to bushfire. Broughton experienced the unimaginable. In one terrifying day she and her husband lost everything: the home where they'd raised a family all her memorabilia her journals all their artwork. And the landscape she'd loved and tended for over ......
