Welcome to SPIRIT OF RENEWAL, the Manly Art Gallery and Museum Poetry Alive Reading. This annual event, a synergy of art and poetry, is now in its 7th year. In …
Cartography (Paul Hetherington)
Cartography 1. The width of our expression was never as wide as the ocean. The depth we knew rarely troubled the lantern fish. Yet your hands were waves, absorbed in …
THE THINGLINESS OF THINGS: an interview with Jen Webb and Paul Hetherington
The scholar who admits to taking images on her phone when tipsy. The poet who exhibits his work in art galleries. A little capital city that was boldly designed from …
Rich Evocations of Harsh Realities: Paul Hetherington’s Six Different Windows (Robyn Cadwallader)
Review by Robyn Cadwallader Paul Hetherington’s eighth and latest collection of poetry, Six Different Windows, offers the reader the assurance of being in the hands of a thoughtful, intelligent poet. …
CHANGING THE GROUND OF EXISTENCE: an interview with Paul Hetherington
If there’s ever a part of human endeavour where people work extremely hard, achieve an extraordinary amount, but, in the main, unless there’s a miracle (and we all know they’re …
Holding (Paul Hetherington)
He held her body lightly, shirted as it was, falling backwards as it was, away from him. He read in her arched back the prow-lines of figureheads on ships …
Tissue (Paul Hetherington)
He thought of his family: how his mother had been locked into grief about something she couldn’t name and was passionately present or strangely, remotely apart; how his father …
Parrots (Paul Hetherington)
Beaking and clawing, they strew the ground where the glimmer of oil and hallucinations of petrol leak towards a broken bicycle frame. Benny threw it down, stripping the wheels, …
Brothers (Paul Hetherington)
They delved in mud under pines needles, rubbed together like animals, cupped black pearls of river water in nail-bitten hands, drank wind like a tart cordial. They tasted dirt …