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: ‘Devil’s Elbow’ by Jelena Dinić
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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: ‘Blessing’ by Helen Parsons
This week, we shine the poetry spotlight on Helen Parsons’ new collection, The Feeling of Bigness: Encountering Georgia O’Keeffe. The sonnets in the collection draw inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and life, and her love for the big open spaces – the ‘feeling of bigness’ – that New Mexico offered her.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme’ by Kristin Martin
This week’s poetry highlight is on the gorgeous South Australian children’s poetry book, To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme? With poems written by Kristin Martin and illustrations by Joanne Knott, this kid’s poetry collection is charming and fun.
Poems truly are all around us, and in this collection Kristin shares her love of nature and sense of fun on every page. Joanne’s exquisite illustrations bring the animals and natural environment to magical life.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘This Body’ by Annette Marner
This week’s poetry spotlight shines once again on Annette Marner’s Women With Their Faces on Fire, a collection which draws on the beauty of nature to explore the experiences of women.
‘In this book you will find a passionate involvement with the land, images of love and friendship, and anger against injustice. These poems chill and delight.’ – Miriel Lenore
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Married?’ by Miriel Lenore
This week for our poetry spotlight, we are showcasing a poem by Miriel Lenore, from her collection A Wild Kind of Tune.
‘In this 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.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘fiona & the snow queen’ by Ali Whitelock
Our spotlight shines once again on Ali Whitelock, this time featuring a poem from her first collection published by Wakefield Press, and my heart crumples like a coke can.
‘Ali Whitelock writes a poetry of excoriating tenderness. Whitelock is Bukowski with a Glaswegian accent and a nicer wardrobe.’
– Mark Tredinnick, poet and author of The Blue Plateau, The Little Red Writing Book, Blue Wren Cantos, The Lyre Bird & Other Poems
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Maslins Beach at Midnight’ by Jeri Kroll
Our poetry spotlight shines on Jeri Kroll today, and her lovely collection Workshopping the Heart.
This witty, moving and accessible collection gathers poems from six previous books, beginning with Death as Mr Right, which won second prize in the 1982 Anne Elder Award for best first poetry book in Australia. With irony and frankness, Jeri Kroll workshops the complex relationships that individuals establish over the course of a lifetime with friends and family, as well as with the physical and social environments that shape them. In particular, she tackles the significance of parenthood, gender and ageing.
