This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Steve Brock’s Live at Mr Jake’s, highlighting the poem ‘Good Friday’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Good Friday’ by Steve Brock
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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘New York’ by Aidan Coleman
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.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘the difficulty with honesty in the long-term relationship & the consequences thereof’ by Ali Whitelock
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.
BEHIND THE BOOKS: The Missing Dream Tetra
‘I was spellbound by this hallucinatory excursion through the uncharted, elusive terrain between unconscious states and wide-awake reality.’ – Robyn Ravlich
Dream Tetras, a collaboration between writer Mike Ladd and artist Cathy Brooks, combines experimental essays by Mike with extraordinary images by Cathy. The essays, which are inspired by snippets of dreams Mike has remembered, embrace randomness and coincidences with waking life. Cathy’s artwork responses are extrapolations of the essays, drawing on her extensive photographic archives and combining drawing, collage, painting and photoshop.
We are pleased now to be sharing a bonus dream tetra, written after the book was published.
Read this bonus content below.
Continue readingBACKLIST SPOTLIGHT: Nature Strip by Leonie Stevens
This week turns our spotlight to fiction, highlighting the 1994 novel by Leonie Stevens, Nature Strip: A story of love and revenge.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘After Pentridge’ by Jenny Boult
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on ‘After Pentridge’ by Jenny Boult, from the collection Tuesday Night Live: Fifteen years of Friendly Street.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘vodka & coke’ by Ali Whitelock
To celebrate Ali Whitelock’s soon-to-be-launched third collection A Brief Letter to the Sea About a Couple of Things, this week’s spotlight shines on her poem ‘vodka & coke’.
SHORT STORY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Else / If’ by Andrew Roff
This week’s spotlight shines on the intriguing short story ‘Else / If’ from Andrew Roff’s debut collection The Teeth of the Slow Machine.
Continue readingPOETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘On the passing of a friend’ by Steve Brock
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Steve Brock’s Live at Mr Jake’s, highlighting the poem ‘On the passing of a friend’.
HOT OFF THE PRESS: NEW EXUBERANCE: Contemporary Australian Textile Design
This week, we celebrate the release of New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian Textile Design, curated and edited by Meryl Ryan.