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From 2023(2)
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Robyn Rowland reviews
This Shuttered Eye
by
Rose Lucas

Adele Dumont reviews
The Hallelujah Shadow
by
Andrew Sant

Julia Clark reviews
Obligations of Voice
by
Anne Elvey

Laura Jean Mckay reviews
Sedition ⁽¹⁾ and Surrender ⁽²⁾
by
Anahera Maire Gildea ⁽¹⁾ and Michaela Keeble ⁽²⁾

Juan Garrido-Salgado reviews
Supervivid Depastoralism
by
John Kinsella

Riley Faulds reviews
Pushing Back
by
John Kinsella

Anne-Sophie Balzer reviews
The Owl Inside
by
Ivy Ireland

Dani Netherclift reviews
Timestamps
by
Sofie Westcombe

Dr Willo Drummond reviews
Earth Dwellers: New Poems
by
Kristen Lang
From 2021(5)

Les Wicks reviews
A Happening in Hades
by
S K Kelen

Les Wicks reviews
Plague Animals
by
Rebecca Edwards

Phillip Hall reviews
Grace Perry: Australian Poet, Publisher and Paediatrician
by
Dot Jensen

Mary Cresswell reviews
apparently
by
joanne burns

Phillip Hall reviews
blue balloon: a collection of haiku and senryu
by
Grant Caldwell
From 2020(43)

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Strokes of Light
by
Lucy Alexander

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Some Sketchy Notes on Matter
by
Angela Gardner

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Redgate
by
Robert Wood

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Autonomy: a book about taking our selves back
by
Kathy D’Arcy

Rosalee Kiely reviews
nothing to declare
by
Mags Webster

Michael Griffiths reviews
boots
by
Nadia Rhook

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
Tilting at Time
by
Greg Tome

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
Parallax: a novel
by
Robin Morgan

Anne M Carson reviews
outfalls and neverends
by
Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker

Anders Villani reviews
After the Demolition
by
Zenobia Frost

Alex McKeown reviews
Once She Had Escaped the Tower
by
Katharine Margot Toohey

Julia Clark reviews
Dead Bolt
by
Ella Jeffery

Tina Giannoukos reviews
Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945
by
Michael Farrell

Anne Elvey reviews
False Claims of Colonial Thieves & Nganajungu Yagu
by
Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella

Mary Cresswell reviews
four titles from Slow Loris
by
various

Mary Cresswell reviews
101 Quads
by
Chris Mansell

Adele Dumont reviews
The House of Youssef
by
Yumna Kassab

Reneé Pettitt-Schipp reviews
The World Was Whole
by
Fiona Wright

Pratyusha reviews
The Future Keepers
by
Nandi Chinna

Joel Ephraims reviews
Recipes for the Disaster
by
Gareth Sion Jenkins

Rose Lucas reviews
Eardrum: Poems and Prose about Music
by
Martin Langford

Thom Sullivan reviews
Open Door
by
John Kinsella

Thom Sullivan reviews
Hollow Earth
by
John Kinsella

Phillip Hall reviews
Navigable Ink
by
Jennifer Mackenzie

Phillip Hall reviews
Brief Garden
by
Margaret Bradstock

Phillip Hall reviews
Under this Saffron Sun
by
Robyn Rowland

Phillip Hall reviews
Heide
by
π0

Jennifer Mackenzie reviews
Sergius Seeks Bacchus
by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Simone King reviews
The Tomb of the Unknown Artist
by
Andy Kissane

Phillip Hall reviews
Summer Haiku ⁽¹⁾ and Breathing in Stormy Seasons ⁽²⁾
by
Owen Bullock ⁽¹⁾ and Stephanie Green ⁽²⁾

Nikoleta Zampaki reviews
Workbook Questions: Writing of Torture, Trauma Experience
by
Margaret Bennett and Jennifer Maiden

Mary Cresswell reviews
Empirical
by
Lisa Gorton

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa reviews
between wind and water ⁽¹⁾ , Ada Unseen ⁽²⁾ and Fate News ⁽³⁾
by
berni m janssen ⁽¹⁾, Frances Presley ⁽²⁾ and Norma Cole ⁽³⁾

Brianna Vincent reviews
terrain grammar
by
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Adele Dumont reviews
The Grass Library
by
David Brooks

Wendy Fleming reviews
The Intimacy of Strangers
by
Philip Porter and Andy Kissane

Ali Jane Smith reviews
Amplifications: Poetic Migration, Auditory Memory
by
Paul Carter

Annelise Roberts reviews
The Ls
by
Judy Annear

Annelise Roberts reviews
Crow College: New and Selected Poems
by
Emma Lew

CJ Vallis reviews
Stranger Country
by
Monica Tan

David Smith reviews
SWAMP: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain
by
Nandi Chinna

John Charles Ryan reviews
The Bones of My Grandfather
by
Esthela Calderón

Julia Clark reviews
Acting Like a Girl
by
Sandra Renew
From 2019(51)

Earl Livings reviews
Luxembourg
by
Stephen Oliver

Lucas Smith reviews
Belief
by
Les Wicks

Rachael Mead reviews
Night Fishing
by
Anna Ryan-Punch

Siobhan Hodge reviews
brookings: the noun ⁽¹⁾ and Selected Poems 1967–2018 ⁽²⁾
by
Jennifer Maiden

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
How To Bake A Planet
by
Pete Mullineaux

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Intatto.Intact. Ecopoesia. Ecopoetry
by
Massini D’Arcangelo, Anne Elvey, and Helen Moore

Yvonne Adami reviews
Scanning the Horizon
by
Mark Miller

Les Wicks reviews
Open ⁽¹⁾ & out of emptied cups ⁽²⁾
by
Sarah St Vincent Welch ⁽¹⁾ & anne casey ⁽²⁾

Jenny Henty reviews
Libation
by
Earl Livings

Earl Livings reviews
Green Shadows and Other Poems
by
Gerald Murnane

Di Cousens reviews
Cry of the Curlew
by
Allis Hamilton

Caitlin Maling reviews
click here for what we do
by
Pam Brown

Brianna Bullen reviews
High Wire Step
by
Magdalena Ball

Anne Buchanan-Stuart reviews
Chromatic
by
Paul Munden

Anne Elvey reviews
The little book of sunlight and maggots
by
Michael Aiken

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
Wood Green
by
Sean Rabin

Henry Briffa reviews
João
by
John Mateer

Luke Beesley reviews
California Sweet
by
Kent MacCarter

Mary Cresswell reviews
Listening to the Night
by
Jane Routh

Mary Cresswell reviews
the loneliness of the sasquatch
by
Amanda Bell

Rose Lucas reviews
Yuiquimbiang
by
Louise Crisp

Rose Lucas reviews
Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
by
Judith Beveridge

Gem Mahadeo reviews
Saudade
by
Suneeta Peres da Costa

Prithvi Varatharajan reviews
Viva the Real
by
Jill Jones

Stephanie Downing reviews
Satan Repentant
by
Michael Aiken

Anders Villani reviews
Stone Mother Tongue
by
Annamaria Weldon

Simon Patton reviews
An Open Book
by
David Malouf

Amanda Joy reviews
That Sight
by
Marjon Mossammparast

Cassandra Atherton reviews
Broken Ground
by
Steve Armstrong

Carolyn van Langenberg reviews
Coach Fitz
by
Tom Lee

Lucas Smith reviews
About The Author Is Dead
by
Pascalle Burton

E A Gleeson reviews
Justice for Romeo
by
Siobhan Hodge

Susan Hawthorne reviews
Flying into the Hands of Strangers
by
Jeltje Fanoy

Jenny Henty reviews
Taking My Breath: Ecopoems
by
Cassandra J. O’Loughlin

Lyn Chatham reviews
Concerning a Farm
by
Robert Wood

Mick Pope reviews
The Coal Truth
by
David Ritter

Anne Buchanan-Stuart reviews
Newcastle Sonnets
by
Keri Glastonbury

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Wildlife of Berlin
by
Philip Neilsen

Yvonne Adami reviews
River’s Edge
by
Owen Bullock

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
20 Poets
by
Kent MacCarter

Susan Laura Sullivan reviews
The Water Bearer
by
Tracy Ryan

Siobhan Hodge reviews
Moonlight on Oleander
by
Paul Hetherington

Sally Denshire reviews
The Hijab Files
by
Maryam Azam

Rose Lucas reviews
Calenture
by
Lindsay Tuggle

Phillip Hall reviews
Tracker
by
Alexis Wright

Pam Brown reviews
meditations with passing water
by
Jake Goetz

J V Birch reviews
Glass Life
by
Jo Langdon

Helen Hagemann reviews
The Tiny Museums
by
Carolyn Abbs

Geraldine Burrowes reviews
Aqua Spinach
by
Luke Beesley

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
The Flaw in the Pattern
by
Rachael Mead

Craig Coulson reviews
Afloat in Light
by
David Adès
From 2018(46)

Brook Emery reviews
Green Point Bearings
by
Kathryn Fry

Robyn Cadwallader reviews
The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc
by
Ali Alizadeh

Anne M Carson reviews
Mississippi
by
Ann Fisher-Wirth and Maude Schuyler Clay

Anne Elvey reviews
phosphene
by
Tamryn Bennett

Mary Cresswell reviews
The Weight of Light
by
Kristen Lang

Di Cousens reviews
Walking with Camels
by
Leni Shilton

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
Words the Turtle Taught Me
by
Susan Richardson

Daniel Bratton reviews
women: poetry: migration
by
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Robert Wood reviews
Flood Damages
by
Eunice Andrada

Thom Sullivan reviews
Renga: 100 Poems
by
John Kinsella & Paul Kane

Phillip Hall reviews
November Journal
by
Diane Fahey

Dorothy Poulopoulos reviews
All My Goodbyes
by
Mariana Dimόpulos

Alice Allan reviews
Domestic Interior
by
Fiona Wright

Simon Patton reviews
up through branches
by
Kit Kelen

Liz Conor reviews
Feminist Ecologies
by
Lara Stevens, Peta Tait and Denise Varney

Alex Griffin reviews
In Some Ways Dingo
by
Melody Paloma

Gem Mahadeo reviews
Mirror Sydney
by
Vanessa Berry

Mark Crees reviews
Anatomy of Voice
by
David Musgrave

Cassandra O'Loughlin reviews
Lunar Inheritance
by
Lachlan Brown

Rose Lucas reviews
Fume
by
Phillip Hall

Dr Rose Lucas reviews
The Conversation of Trees
by
Vanessa Kirkpatrick

Geraldine Burrowes reviews
I Love Poetry
by
Michael Farrell

Robert Wood reviews
Can You Tolerate This?
by
Ashleigh Young

Anne Elvey reviews
Brink
by
Jill Jones

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
concrete flamingos
by
Mark Roberts

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Passage
by
Kate Middleton

Tina Giannoukos reviews
Fragments
by
Antigone Kefala

Brianna Bullen reviews
Reading for a Quiet Morning
by
Petra White

Lucas Smith reviews
The Only White Landscape
by
Derek Motion

Gemma Mahadeo reviews
Koel
by
Jen Crawford

Anne M Carson reviews
A perfect distortion
by
Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper

Di Cousens reviews
No More Boats
by
Felicity Castagna

Sasha Shtargot reviews
Watching from the Shadows
by
Greg Tome

Phillip Hall reviews
Land Mass
by
R.D. Wood

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
SkinNotes
by
Kristen Lang

Brenda Saunders reviews
Fire Work: Last Poems
by
Aileen Kelly

Anne Buchanan-Stuart reviews
Chatelaine
by
Bonny Cassidy

Mary Cresswell reviews
Cleanskin Poems
by
Lauren Williams

Lyn Chatham reviews
This Water: Five Tales
by
Beverley Farmer

Craig Coulson reviews
Aurelia
by
John Hawke

Mary Cresswell reviews
Getting By Not Fitting In
by
Les Wicks

Daniela Brozek Cordier reviews
A Salivating Monstrous Plant
by
Tanya Thaweeskulchai

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Lucid Nature
by
Sean O' Carroll

Phillip Hall reviews
recent titles from Recent Work Press
by
various authors

Simon Patton reviews
Homing
by
Shevaun Cooley

Siobhan Hodge reviews
Like Nothing on this Earth
by
Tony Hughes-d-Aeth
From 2017(32)

Anne Elvey reviews
Give Forest Its Next Portent
by
Peter Larkin

Michael Potts reviews
Industrial Oz (1) and Hawk on Wire (2)
by
Scott T Starbuck

Jenny Henty reviews
Have Been and Are
by
Brook Emery

Helen Hagemann reviews
Flute of Milk
by
Susan Fealy

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Euclid’s Dog
by
Jordie Albiston

Robert Wood reviews
Broken Teeth
by
Tony Birch

Robert Wood reviews
The Honeymoon Stage
by
Oscar Schwartz

Stephanie Downing reviews
The Apocalypse Awards
by
Nathan Curnow

Susan Pyke reviews
A Philosophical Novella ⁽¹⁾ and Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living ⁽²⁾
by
Freya Mathews

Mary Cresswell reviews
Unmaking Atoms
by
Magdalena Ball

E A Gleeson reviews
Undercurrents
by
Amanda Bell

Anne Stuart reviews
Missing up
by
Pam Brown

Alice Allan reviews
The Metronome
by
Jennifer Maiden

Rose Lucas reviews
New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham
by
Nathanael O'Reilly

Sami Rafiq reviews
Fixing the Broken Nightingale
by
Richard James Allen

Thriveni C Mysore reviews
Think of the World
by
John Leonard

Robert Wood reviews
Ground
by
Martin Langford

Mary Cresswell reviews
The Herring Lass
by
Michelle Cahill

Mary Cresswell reviews
Snake Like Charms
by
Amanda Joy

Mary Cresswell reviews
Bull Days
by
Tina Giannoukos

John Hawke reviews
False Fruits
by
Matthew Hall

Jennifer Mackenzie reviews
Letter to Pessoa
by
Michelle Cahill

Caitlin Maling reviews
Opera
by
Stuart Cooke

Robert Wood reviews
Landscape with Landscape
by
Gerald Murnane

Robert Wood reviews
Collected Poems
by
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Susan Laura Sullivan reviews
This Intimate War
by
Robyn Rowland

Melody Paloma reviews
Happiness
by
Martin Harrison

Thom Sullivan reviews
Graphology Poems
by
John Kinsella

Phillip Hall reviews
Gularabulu
by
Paddy Roe (with Stephen Muecke)

Phillip Hall reviews
Breaking the Days ⁽¹⁾ and the leaves are my sisters ⁽²⁾
by
Jill Jones

Graeme Miles reviews
Cocky’s Joy
by
Michael Farrell

Dan Ryder reviews
Earth Girls
by
Lisa Brockwell
From 2016(32)

Siobhan Hodge reviews
The Fox Petition
by
Jennifer Maiden

Phillip Hall reviews
Unexpected Clearing ⁽¹⁾ and Line of Drift ⁽²⁾
by
Rose Lucas ⁽¹⁾ and Robyn Rowland ⁽²⁾

Phillip Hall reviews
Hegel’s Owl
by
Sheridan Palmer

Mary Cresswell reviews
Sunset
by
Maggie Walsh

Mary Cresswell reviews
Engraft
by
Michele Seminara

Daniel Bratton reviews
diurnal
by
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Susan Fealy reviews
The Non-Sequitur of Snow
by
Shari Kocher

Anne Elvey reviews
sweetened in coals
by
Phillip Hall

Philip Harvey reviews
Drowning in Wheat
by
John Kinsella

Phillip Hall reviews
Skin Deep
by
Liz Conor

Phillip Hall reviews
Thinking the Antipodes
by
Peter Beilharz

Mary Cresswell reviews
weaving nests with smoke and stone
by
Gina Mercer

Siobhan Hodge reviews
Word Migrants
by
Hazel Smith

Phillip Hall reviews
Island Home
by
Tim Winton

P. S. Cottier reviews
The Hazards
by
Sarah Holland-Batt

Mary Cresswell reviews
When Embers Dance
by
Katherine E. Seppings

Lucas Smith reviews
Journey to Horseshoe Bend
by
T. G. H. Strehlow

Melissa Ashley reviews
Small Acts of Disappearance
by
Fiona Wright

Lucas Smith reviews
Exhibits of the Sun
by
Stephen Edgar

Marissa Ker reviews
The Fox Petition
by
Jennifer Maiden

Robyn Cadwallader reviews
Like a Beggar
by
Ellen Bass

Helen Hagemann reviews
Terra Bravura
by
Meredith Wattison

Vivian Gerrand reviews
three Vagabond deciBels series chapbooks
by
various authors

Rose Lucas reviews
Net Needle
by
Robert Adamson

Siobhan Hodge reviews
Fish Stories
by
Mary Cresswell

Alice Allan reviews
Free Will and the Clouds
by
Rob Wilson

R. D. Wood reviews
Diwurruwurru: Poetry from the Gulf of Carpentaria
by
the Booroloola Poetry Club with Phillip Hall

R. D. Wood reviews
Jam Sticky Vision
by
Luke Beesley

Susan Laura Sullivan reviews
Distant Landscapes
by
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Phillip Hall reviews
On Bunyah
by
Les Murray

Phillip Hall reviews
George Dyungayan’s Bulu Line ⁽¹⁾ and Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future) ⁽²⁾
by
Stuart Cooke ⁽¹⁾ and Lionel Fogarty ⁽²⁾

Siobhan Hodge reviews
Crow’s Breath
by
John Kinsella
From 2015(25)

Mary Cresswell reviews
The Coral Battleground
by
Judith Wright

R. D. Wood reviews
Inside My Mother
by
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Susan Hawthorne reviews
Wild
by
Libby Hart

Phillip Hall reviews
The Eye of the Crocodile
by
Val Plumwood

R. D. Wood reviews
The Barons
by
Joshua Corey

Garth Madsen reviews
Picture X
by
Tim Shaner

Susan Pyke reviews
Lupa and Lamb
by
Susan Hawthorne

Cassandra Atherton reviews
A Spell, A Charm
by
John Leonard

Brian Hawkins reviews
Woodsmoke
by
Todd Turner

Jennifer Mackenzie reviews
Naming the Ruins
by
Dinah Roma

Mary Cresswell reviews
Ecozoa
by
Helen Moore

Michele Seminara reviews
Before Bone and Viscera
by
Robbie Coburn

R. D. Wood reviews
A Vicious Example ⁽¹⁾ and The night's live changes ⁽²⁾
by
Michael Aiken ⁽¹⁾ and Tim Wright ⁽²⁾

Robbie Coburn reviews
Sputnik’s Cousin ⁽¹⁾ and Intercolonial ⁽²⁾
by
Kent MacCarter ⁽¹⁾ and Stephen Oliver ⁽²⁾

Phillip Hall reviews
The Vision of Error ⁽¹⁾ and Tide ⁽²⁾
by
John Kinsella

Phillip Hall reviews
The Lake’s Apprentice
by
Annamaria Weldon

Moira Sheppard reviews
For Rhino In A Shrinking World
by
Harry Owen

Mary Cresswell reviews
Curio
by
Kristin Hannaford

Kristin Hannaford reviews
South in the World
by
Lisa Jacobson

Kevin Brophy reviews
The Thin Bridge
by
Andy Jackson

Jeff Guess reviews
married to this ground
by
Nicola Bowery

Helen Hagemann reviews
Final Theory
by
Bonny Cassidy

Cassandra O’Loughlin reviews
Even in the Dark
by
Rose Lucas

Anne M Carson reviews
Pictures of Nothing at All
by
Kit Kelen

Alice Allan reviews
The Beautiful Anxiety
by
Jill Jones
From 2014(16)

Anne Elvey reviews
Empty Your Eyes
by
Robert Adamson

Rod Giblett reviews
White Beech
by
Germaine Greer

Mary Cresswell reviews
Limen
by
Susan Hawthorne

Robyn Cadwallader reviews
XIII Poems
by
Jordie Albiston

Megan Blake reviews
Paths of Flight
by
Luke Fischer

Stephen Harris reviews
The Political Imagination
by
Ali Alizadeh and Ann Vickery

Rosalind McFarlane reviews
Ephemeral Waters
by
Kate Middleton

Robbie Coburn reviews
Bluewren Cantos
by
Mark Tredinnick

Pam Brown reviews
Flux ⁽¹⁾ and Wild Black Lake ⁽²⁾
by
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Mary Cresswell reviews
Plume
by
Kathleen Flenniken

Marissa Ker reviews
Removing the Kimono
by
Anne M Carson

Bonny Cassidy reviews
The Ecopoetry Anthology
by
Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street

Susan Pyke reviews
Outcrop
by
Jeremy Balius and Corey Wakeling

Bridie McCarthy reviews
Speaking the Earth’s Languages
by
Stuart Cooke

Jennifer Mackenzie reviews
Cow
by
Susan Hawthorne

Kate Rigby reviews
Entanglements
by
David Knowles and Sharon Blackie
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