Dael Allison Archives

2017 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS

Verity La September 26, 2017 Arrests of Attention, Heightened Talk

Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its third year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally …

The Circumstances of a Book: a review by Geoff PageApril 14, 2011
Poems from the City: A London Interlude. By Ed Byrne. Melbourne University Publishing. pp 160. $24.99 * It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than ... Read More
Evergrey (Kirk Marshall)February 17, 2011
There is a tree; the squirrels know this. You could professionally train a red-kneed bird-eating spider to locate it by scent, but still the bulbous globe of the huntress would ... Read More
THE WELL-EXERCISED IMAGINATION: an interview with Andrea GoldsmithDecember 7, 2010
The official blurb says this: ‘Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first ... Read More