We’re pleased to announce the winner of the April WWWC: Sarai Mannolini-Winwood! Responding to the prompt ‘come Monday’, Sarai’s poem ‘I’ll dream of this’ ruminates on the quiet mundanity and joy of days away from work.
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the February WWWC: Robert Dawson. Responding to the prompt ‘sweet world’, Robert’s poem ‘Boötes’, a meditation on the stars, gives way to questions about nature, youth and what is lost when we disconnect from nature.
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Aidan Coleman’s poem ‘New York’, which was included in the 2009 anthology Catch Fire: Friendly Street Poets 33, edited by Aidan Coleman and Juliet A. Paine.
The first poetry spotlight of the year shines on Ali Whitelock’s poem ‘the difficulty with honesty in the long-term relationship & the consequences thereof’ from her latest collection A Brief Letter to the Sea About a Couple of Things.
This week, guest reviewer Ben Sando gives his impressions on the combined works of Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton, including their most recent poetry collections Waldo’s Game and On Luck Street.
Ben Sando is an exhibiting artist based in Adelaide – mostly painting, mostly abstract – but has also worked with manipulated photographic images and made performance and installation work. His critical writing has appeared in various magazines, most notably a review of the Adelaide Biennial in Art Monthly and a major article on the photography of Ian North.
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s first collection together, The Elsewhere Variations, highlighting the poem ‘Like-Minded’.