Review by Robyn Cadwallader John Kinsella’s latest collection of poetry, The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems is, as Kinsella says in a speech on video link to …
SUCCESS SMOKE AND JOY BOATS: an interview with David Stavanger
After winning the prestigious 2013 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize, poet David Stavanger has just launched his resulting collection, The Special, to an appreciative audience at the 2014 Queensland Poetry …
Vigil (John Clanchy)
There had been a moon earlier on. A scimitar moon, Pete Davis had once heard it called. A curved blade of white light on a bed of black velvet. Black …
COMINGS AND GOINGS AND CHALLENGES AND FUTURES AND NEW WORLDS AND THINGS
As they say, it’s always better to leave at the time of your choosing than be pushed, so, with that in mind, I’m here to report that Verity La-la-land is …
Thy poetry and thy pathos—all so strange! (PS Cottier)
The found poem hates the way the egregious disruptions of fashion have shaped his hideous form; a misshapen picaresque, he lurches. He is angry as blackbirds in a pie croaking …
A Monster Mash of Genres: Lloyd Shepherd’s The English Monster
Review by Robert Goodman At first blush The English Monster comes across as yet another historical criminal procedural. These are crime genre novels set in a historical era and usually …
ThE IncreDible ChariSma SuckiNg MOnster (Mark William Jackson)
the incredible charisma sucking monster wrapped its plastic lips around a cock in the hen house lending its life against future …
IN LOVE WITH STRANGENESS AND SURPRISES: an interview with Walter Mason
There are those in the writing world who’d sell their grandmother to move forward. Then there’s Walter Mason, who, despite being a well-published author of travel memoir and highly regarded …
Monsoonal light of our childhood (Rico Craig)
Life, cannot quell thoughts of you my brother In the Malay of childhood, you’re eight, our hands are sticky with frangipani sap. It’s rainy season; you have starfruit juice, …
The Archimedes Principle and the red cement floor (Rachael Mead)
You promised it wouldn’t happen again and this time there weren’t enough towels to deal with the physics. Fill. Overflow. The mechanics of weight and volume …