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: Ben Sando on Bakowski & Bolton
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.
Continue readingPOETRY 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’.
POETRY 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’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Like-Minded’ by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s first collection together, The Elsewhere Variations, highlighting the poem ‘Like-Minded’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Devil’s Elbow’ by Jelena Dinić
This week’s spotlight shines once again on Jelena Dinić’s stunning collection In the Room with the She Wolf, highlighting the poem ‘Devil’s Elbow’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘the cumquats of christmas past’ by Ali Whitelock
This week’s poetry spotlight returns to Ali Whitelock’s charming and much-loved work, highlighting the poem ‘the cumquats of christmas past’ from her second collection, The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair.