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 …
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. …
MAPPING A JOURNEY BETWEEN WORLDS: Ben Hession Reviews Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Eunice Andrada is one of many Filipino Australian poets who are together developing a distinctive, emerging presence in the national literary scene. The voices are diverse, …
To and From Hadamar (Ben Hession)
It was nothing special, really, an overcast bus on a non-descript journey: a sort of euphemistic ride — the white-coated driver, the passengers chattering about simple things, but in a …
Lyricism, Imagination and Vigour: Michelle Cahill’s The Herring Lass (Reviewed by Ben Hession)
(Edited by Robyn Cadwallader) It has been a long time between poetry collections for Michelle Cahill, but her latest, The Herring Lass, proves the wait has been worth it, with …
Mercury (Ben Hession)
Estrangement has its latitudes, the most hospitable to residency, here: trembling, trying to avoid extremes — every day you are busy celebrating two birthdays, slowly, you can have your medication and …
An Imitation of Catullus (Ben Hession)
My dear, you have no ethical dealer – if you must make him a lover, be honest: your heart will simply whore you, short changing your dignity. But you’re a …