WINGSPAN: A Festschrift for Robert Adamson
This invaluable collection of essays, letters, poems, and reminiscences celebrates the life and poetry of Robert Adamson, undeniably one of Australia’s greatest poets. It contains tributes from David Malouf, Susan Wyndam, Gregory Day, Devin Johnston, Michael Palmer, Adam Zawacki, Anthony Lawrence, Stephen Edgar, Gig Ryan, Richard Tipping, and Kevin Hart among others
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- WINGSPAN: A Festschrift for Robert AdamsonAlmost Once Devin Johnston The moment you died, the day turned sideways, no longer moving in any direction, the winter ...
- Anxiety is a Dumpster Fire: A One-Breath Exorcism (Alise Blayney)The Lexicon of Losing It Ang‑zhy‑i‑tee for brekky / panic on toast / doom scrolling in the bloodstream — the ...
- Skin Hunger (Kathy Parker)‘Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.’ ...
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- The Mayoral Robes (Mark O’Flynn)When the homemade pipe bomb detonated outside the Council chambers one night shattering the glazed double doors and the windscreens ...
- What Remains (A. G. Pettet)I stack the front table the way I always do, new fiction like an apology, essays like a dare, poetry ...
- Unsettling Honesties: Anne Casey’s ‘Portrait of a Woman Walking Home’ reviewed by Gillian SwainPortrait of a Woman Walking Home is a slim book, but it is not a light read. The book has ...
- A ROOM OF MIRRORS: Hazel Hall reviews Lizz Murphy’s ‘the wear of my face’Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Lizz Murphy is a micro poet ― at her best when forging images from a few ...
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