This week’s poetry spotlight shines on the poem ‘Cross’, from Helen Parsons’ collection The Feeling of Bigness.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Cross’ by Helen Parsons
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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Courtier’ by Aidan Coleman
This week’s poetry spotlight contemplates the poem ‘Courtier’, from Aidan Coleman’s vigorous collection Mount Sumptuous.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Botanic Park’ by Heather Taylor-Johnson
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Heather Taylor-Johnson’s freshly launched collection Alternative Hollywood Ending, highlighting the poem ‘Botanic Park’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Back Again’ by Mike Ladd
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Mike Ladd’s poem ‘Back Again’, from his multi-genre collection Invisible Mending.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Sweet River’ by Jack Hibberd
This week’s spotlight shines on Jack Hibberd’s most recent poetry collection, highlighting the titular poem ‘Sweet River’.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Selling Yourself’ by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
This week’s spotlight once again shines on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s tandem collection Nearly Lunch, this time highlighting the poem ‘Selling Yourself’.
‘A spectrum of individuals, from the naive to the kind, caustic to the stoic, to those who suggest other ways of being – either hopeful, philosophical, grateful or resigned – pleased, though, all of them, that it’s NEARLY LUNCH.’ – Cover blurb
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Farewell to a Colleague’ by Julian Zytnik
This week’s spotlight shines on an early volume in the Friendly Street series, Friendly Street New Poets 5.
Working in the Wakefield bookstore, with hundreds of books laid out before me, I am often in the position to judge the books by their covers, searching for the most interesting looking ones to flick through and sometimes (often) buy. The cover image (shown above) was why I picked this particular book off the shelf, and I was surprised to find that Wakefield’s own Jonny Inverarity had designed it!
In this week’s poetry spotlight, I’ve chosen to feature ‘Farewell to a Colleague’ by Julian Zytnik.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘In the Room with the She Wolf’ by Jelena Dinić
This week’s spotlight shines on the award-winning poetry collection by Jelena Dinić, In the Room with the She Wolf.
Following this week’s announcement that Jelena Dinić has won the Mary Gilmore Award, it seems fitting we resume our Poetry Spotlight series by focusing on her startling debut collection.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Marta Saulnier’ by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
Our spotlight shines on a new poetry collection by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton, Nearly Lunch.
Fresh off the press, Nearly Lunch is another collaboration from these two poets, after their previous Elsewhere Variations (also published by Wakefield Press), which is a companion volume.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Copley Street’ by Geoff Goodfellow
This week’s spotlight shines on a new poetry collection by Geoff Goodfellow, Preparing for Business.
Award-winning poet Geoff Goodfellow is back with another vivid, affecting, laconically dark-witted collection that pulls no punches as it masterfully chronicles Australian life.
As always, Geoff delivers a series of brilliantly captured portraits of working-class life, from the street scenes of formerly industrial Port Adelaide and his home suburb of Semaphore, with its heightened blend of affluence and poverty, to his fearless inhabitations of teenagers beset by home lives that feature domestic violence and addiction.