Bolton's A PIRATE LIFE, A BOARD GAME for the impossibly bored, is a tangy, buoyant ahoy. It is a game which invites the reader to roll the dice, take a card from the deck – short, shuffle-able blocks of prose are an avant-garde tradition – gain poi...
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The poems in A J Carruthers’s new collection are iconoclastic: drawing on different media, such as musical notation, and avoiding standard forms, they recall the palindromic poems in the Chinese poetic tradition. The vertical verse stanzas, which c...
SECRET THIRD THING is a hyper-real comment on this hyper-real moment: it is suff used with internet culture and reflections on the lives we live, now, largely online. What characterises Dan Hogan’s poetry is the way that, each time we come close to ...
“Confessional Poetry can deteriorate into fetishism, in Biswas’s hands the first person narrative soars – detailed, raw, palpable, her poems have a sense of immediacy. The collection ends with a transported long poem titled ‘madness’ that more than ...
Welcome to the ‘heritage-listed foyer’—they’ve ordered you a workstation, and your induction starts now.In Harry Reid's LEAVE ME ALONE, we enter a nondescript door down a laneway and casually apply the secret knock. This is not the door to the recep...
“In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle age – places and times rendered in vivid, sensory detail – to give a haunting exploration of memory and the emigrant experience: dep...
“A collection, written in English and Scots, that explores immigration, home and place. The people could be poet, family, reader or all of us on this drowning, burning earth. The present could be this moment, or a past so intensely remembered, or a ...
Madrid, Spain 2019. The end of the UN Climate Change Conference—another moral failure on the part of those who could have made change. I go back to the labour union hall that all the activist groups have been using as a headquarters to help with the...
Poetry. Indigenous Australian Poetry. When Teena McCarthy told me she had constructed this book from poems, lines, phrases and images that she had written on odd-sized pieces of paper and had gathered them until they formed a manuscript, I immediate...
Poetry. Introduction by Juliana Spahr. Since 1972, satellites have circled the earth, collecting images of it and sending them back to be catalogued and examined. Conventionally these satellites are called landsats, sometimes EarthHawks. Landsats te...
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Introduction by Merlinda Bobis. All doors are open in Lucy Van's poetry. Ingress and egress are multiple, even coincident. We've just touched what's here, or are ...
Poetry. To situate the work contained in LOOK!, it is worth recalling the rich but neglected Concrete Poetry tradition. Even in the twenty-first century, its challenge to the transparency of the word as a medium of communication is still provocative...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This book's queerness is queer in structure, not just content. It queers edges rather than flirting with centres (there is flirting in it, by the way). It's unstable, multiple and accessible in the way you can read it anyway...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Travel. Philosophy. "The writing that follows arose from states of joy, anguish, ambivalence and contemplation. The poems come from a period of ten years, while other poetic, essayistic and diaristic pieces were produced...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "We find ourselves in love or out of it; in a friendship but with an enemy; under contract; inscribed by the law; giving birth; accompanied by ghosts; making pacts; in pursuit of a lost object; oriented towards new and u...