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 …
Reading in an Undiscovered Library: Pulse – Prose Poems as Collaboration
Review by Lucy Alexander Edited by Robyn Cadwallader The woman has borrowed arms and legs. She walks on a tightrope in front of the watching crowd. They stand back as …
Maintaining the Strange Fire: David Stavanger’s The Special and Rob Walker’s tropeland
Review by Lucy Alexander David Stavanger is also Ghostboy… or Ghostboy is also David Stavanger — whichever way you like to approach it, they are both responsible for the poems …
Panache and Bravado and Extraordinary Luminosity: Omar Musa’s Parang and Judy Johnson’s Stone, Scar, Air, Water
Review by Lucy Alexander It’s striking that the works of hip-hop artist and Australian Poetry Slam champion Omar Musa and prize-winning contemporary poet and novelist Judy Johnson reflect so well …
Taut and Quivering Narrative Traction: Susan Hawthorne’s Limen
Review by Lucy Alexander Limen is the notion of barely perceptible difference, where the senses can barely detect that there is sound, for example, or that the river has edged …
An Incredible Sense of Trust: Nathan Curnow and Kevin Brophy's Radar
Review by Lucy Alexander Imagine you’re browsing the bookshop and you pick up the slim volume of Radar, with its cover the colour of vellum and the concentric circle pattern …
Deftly Anchored in Experience: Susan Austin’s Undertow
Review by Lucy Alexander Walleah Press is mining the rich seam of poetry that runs through Tasmania and out onto the mainland. In 2012 they will have produced 10 volumes …