Portrait of a Woman Walking Home is a slim book, but it is not a light read. The book has weight and a texture that may well rub you up …
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 words. One tiny phrase becomes a poem. The result is …
OPENING THE INNER EYE: Anne Casey’s ‘the light we cannot see’
Review by Wendy J Dunn Edited by Robyn Cadwallader We surface abruptly Somewhere between the third and fourth stages, …
We All Have Our Stories to Tell: DIVING INTO GLASS by Caro Llewellyn reviewed by Samantha Connor
Review by Samantha Connor Edited by Robyn Cadwallader George Orwell once famously said, ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful’. It’s why I read Diving into …
Ruby Hamad’s White Tears, Brown Scars: A Rousing Account of Race, Gender and Whiteness
Review by Camilla Patini The construction of whiteness and what this means for women and people of colour is the subject of Australian writer Ruby Hamad’s excellent first book, White …
Writing the River: Robbie Coburn reviews Robert Adamson’s Reaching Light
Review by Robbie Coburn I have been considering how it would feel to read Robert Adamson’s work for the first time through this book, remembering the first time I read …
Old and New Frontiers: Gay Lynch’s Unsettled
Review by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Readers expect historical fiction novels not only to evoke authentically a particular time and place but also to be accessible and relatable …
THIS BIG SOVEREIGN RENAISSANCE — FIRE FRONT: First Nations Poetry & Power Today (ed. Alison Whittaker)
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Whittaker tells us in her introduction to this anthology of First Australians poetry that ‘it’s a cliché to say that Indigenous poetry is powerful’. What is …
THE SPACE BETWEEN MOUTH AND MICROPHONE: SOLID AIR (edited by David Stavanger and Anne-Marie Te Whiu)
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Solid Air is an anthology covering the last ten years of spoken word and performance poetry in Australia and New Zealand. It is the first such …
THE HOUSES THAT HOLD US: Zenobia Frost’s After the Demolition (Tony Messenger)
Review by Tony Messenger Edited by Robyn Cadwallader The house, quite obviously, is a privileged entity for a phenomenological study on the intimate values of inside space, provided, of course, …