This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Aidan Coleman’s ‘Diagram & Leaf’, from his recently published collection Mount Sumptuous.

‘This is an outstanding volume of poetry. It is wonderfully original and deliciously complex. Its intellectual pirouettes and cutbacks are a pleasure to follow, always offering an incredibly agile and aesthetically stimulating journey.’ – Lachlan Brown

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This week’s feature poem is by Shaun Berg from his collection Wystan’s Relic, a book that will challenge your thinking and provide new perspectives on important questions.

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This week’s poetry spotlight shines once again on Kate Llewellyn’s beautiful collection, Harbour.

Earlier in the series, Poppy featured Kate’s poem ‘Frost’ from the same collection. It’s a calming and quiet celebration of the ordinary beauty of nature (read Poppy’s thoughtful post about it here). In a similar vein, this week’s feature poem is an intimate and gentle study of creativity and friendship.

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This week’s poem comes from Miriel Lenore’s collection a wild kind of tune, the third book in her ‘pioneer grandmother’ series.

‘In a wild tale arcing from 1845 to the present, in poetry underpinned by meticulous research, we inhabit settler society with all its attendant joys, hardship and grief as we careen with Caroline through her journey of love, loss and horror into madness.’

– Biff Ward, author of In My Mother’s Hands

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