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Reviews
Fiona Scotney reviews Michelle Dicinoski
Electricity for Beginners by Michelle Dicinoski Clouds of Magellan, 2011 Electricity for Beginners, Michelle Dicinoski’s first poetry collection, has been dedicated in its title and opening pages to “beginners”. Dicinoski has been published previously in a number of publications including …
Cuttlewoman reviews Stu Hatton
How to be hungry by Stu Hatton Self published, 2010 Stu Hatton’s How to be hungry is predominantly a charnel house of modern, urban, party-going, substance-abusing youth. Hatton crams in the details of the worst of youthful socialising — friends …
Toby Fitch reviews Michael Farrell and John Ashbery
thempark by Michael Farrell
BookThug, 2010
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
translated by John Ashbery
W.W. Norton and Co., 2011
In her review of John Ashbery’s new translation of Illuminations in The New York Times, Lydia Davis reminded us that: “When Rimbaud’s mother asked of A Season in Hell, ‘What does it mean?’ — a question still asked of Rimbaud’s poetry, and of Ashbery’s, too — Rimbaud would say only, ‘It means what it says, literally and in every sense.’”
Heather Taylor Johnson reviews HEAT
HEAT 24: That’s it, for now… edited by Ivor Indyk Giramondo Publishing, 2010 This issue of HEAT being named as the magazine’s last could indicate two separate things. One is the opportunity that arises from this; with each ending a …
Joel Scott reviews Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi
Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon (translated by Don Mee Choi), Action Books, 2008 The Morning News is Exciting by Don Mee Choi Action Books, 2010 It is refreshing to be introduced to a literature through …
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Tagged Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Korea, Ozko Features, translation
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Tara Mokhtari reviews APC 2010 New Poets Series
Sundecked by Rachel Petridis The Weeping Grass by Michelle Leber A Question of Translation by Ann de Hugard The Mermaid Problem by Chloe Wilson Australian Poetry Centre, 2010 The Australian Poetry Centre has published four mini-chapbooks of poems by new …
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Tagged Ann de Hugard, Chloe Wilson, Michelle Leber, Rachel Petridis
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Stephen Lawrence reviews Chris Mansell
Letters by Chris Mansell Kardoorair Press, 2009 Poet Chris Mansell has been active in publishing and editing since the 1970s. In Sydney, she co-edited and founded magazines of poetry and prose; and she later helped inaugurate Five Islands Press, which …
Peter Mitchell reviews Out of the Box
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets Edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones Puncher and Wattmann, 2009 Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets is an elegantly-published product. The shape of the book …
Rosalind McFarlane reviews Caroline Caddy
Burning Bright by Caroline Caddy Fremantle Press, 2010 A well known Western Australian writer, Caroline Caddy frequently explores culture as both familiar and unknown in her work. The most common of these explorations concerns the interaction between Chinese and Australian …
Joel Scott reviews Southerly
Southerly 70.1: Golden Tongues: The Arts of Translation edited by David Brooks and Elizabeth McMahon Brandl & Schlesinger, 2010 Faced with the considerable range of work in Southerly‘s Golden Tongues: The Arts of Translation issue, I have resorted to the …
Loula Rodopoulos reviews Tom Petsinis
My Father’s Tools by Tom Petsinis Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009 I chose to review this book wondering how a poet could possibly shape poetic imagery from mundane work tools. Also aware of the multicultural background of Tom Petsinis’ work, I …
Greg Westenberg reviews Jordie Albiston
The sonnet according to ‘m’ by Jordie Albiston John Leonard Press, 2009 To read Jordie Albiston’s The sonnet according to ‘m’ is to play the part of the village agnostic watching the reliquary in the local saint’s procession. “In this …
Nick Terrell reviews Jennifer Maiden
Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden Giramondo Publishing, 2010 Since Jennifer Maiden began publishing in the early 1970s, her work has been charged with a commitment to frame the ethical challenges presented by manifestations of evil. It’s a commitment that was …
Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Southerly
Southerly 69.3: The Poetry Issue edited by Kate Lilley Brandl & Schlesinger, 2010 The poets in this special poetry issue of Southerly stand for what is now, what is exciting/experimental and what is quality. But did Kate Lilley hand pick …
Anna Forsyth reviews Going Down Swinging
Going Down Swinging No. 29: The Unguarded Word edited by Lisa Greenaway and Klare Lanson Going Down Swinging Inc., 2009 This was my first full dip into the reputable journal Going Down Swinging and so I started with the index. …
