Gail Hennessy Archives

THE PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD: QPF 2016

Verity La October 28, 2016 Arrests of Attention, Heightened Talk

The Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its second year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally selected by …

ishmael (Mark Roberts)December 14, 2013
coming at dawn to swim in the ocean baths they find a dead whale half the size of the pool floating like a cut puppet fins & tail tugged by ... Read More
Whiskey Poetry- Tara MokhtariAugust 9, 2010
Alec Patric: When we write a poem we often feel elated. There’s a sense of accomplishment and validation but there’s also the corrosive; the acid in poetry, and when we ... Read More
The Circumstances of a Book: Ed Byrne’s Poems from the CityApril 14, 2011
Review by Geoff Page It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than the book itself but, sadly, this is the case with Ed Byrne’s Poems ... Read More