I have been a fan of Tricia Dearborn’s poetry for a decade. My initial encounter with her work was in an anthology chapbook published for National Science Week in 2010. …
The Silence Between One Person and the Next: Richard James Allen’s The Short Story of You and I (Tony Messenger)
Review by Tony Messenger Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In 2016, UWA Publishing launched their new poetry list ‘in response to the reductions in poetry publishing nationally’, and in the three …
A DECLARATION OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY: Judith Crispin reviews Les Wicks’ Belief
Review by Judith Crispin Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ fourteenth collection of poems, Belief, is clever and brutal — an unflinching examination of human belief, in all of its …
Poems for Thinking: Jennifer Maiden’s brookings: the noun (Ben Hession)
Review by Ben Hession Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Jennifer Maiden is an Australian poet who has been active for over fifty years, with a number of awards to her name. …
The Cherry Picker’s Daughter (Melissa Lucashenko)
A tribute to the late Kerry Reed-Gilbert given by Melissa Lucashenko at the launch of Aunty Kerry’s memoir, The Cherry Picker’s Daughter, at the Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane on …
HOME, LAND AND LONGING: Tangea Tansley’s A Question of Belonging
Reviewed by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Between 1976 and 1992 the country of Mozambique was torn asunder by civil war as the Frelimo nationalist movement fought for independence …
THE COURAGE TO LOVE: Amanda Hickey reviews Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone
Review by Amanda Hickey Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What is it about war that can rapidly bring men to the point of love? In their everyday lives they may have …
WRITING BACKWARDS: Susan Hawthorne’s Dark Matters
Review by Lucy Alexander Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What if it was you who were woken by the crash of your door falling in the early hours of morning? Just …
AHEAD OF HER TIME: Verity Fitzhardinge Remembered
Review by Amanda Hickey Edited By Robyn Cadwallader Verity Fitzhardinge (née Hewitt) was a woman of all seasons: as a writer she crafted poems, articles, letters, book reviews, books and …
REMEMBERING A DISREMEMBERED PAST: Brenda Saunders reviews Jeanine Leane’s Walk Back Over
Edited by Robyn Cadwalader In this consistently strong collection Janine Leane takes us on a journey. The title, Walk Back Over asks us to step back, take another look at …