Friendly Street New Poets 3

The Red Shoes
Louise Nicholas

Her Mother’s Arms
Stephen Lawrence

Mending the Dingo Fence
Richard Hillman

PB 96 PP 210 x 140 1862544050 $16.95 Poetry APN 9791862544054 Wakefield Press

Next year, when I'll be twelve
and my sister sixteen
can I be the pretty one?
Louise Nicholas guides us through contrasting subjects and tones: her daughter performing cartwheels, violence in the Middle East, the landscape of the River Murray . . . A funny, personal and moving collection.

unzips the flesh’s coat . . .
A medical student recognises her mother on the dissection table. How do you explore and understand the body’s machinery, and remain human? In this verse narrative, Stephen Lawrence confronts an experience rarely examined, and even more rarely understood.

Your noise is unmistakable
you do not fear to be heard . . .
Richard Hillman’s poetry speaks. It is a simple voice. A voice rich in the swirl of intelligence and illumination. A voice that says what has to be said.

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