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Lucia Moon reviews

Biota

by Joel Ephraims

Frances Presley reviews

Tilted Ground

by Alyson Hallett

Eva Phillips reviews

Stasis Shuffle

by Pam Brown

Roanna McClelland reviews

Four Rivers, Deep Maps

by Jo Jones & Neil Curtis (Eds.)

John Charles Ryan reviews

Transparent Mountain

by Loss Pequeño Glazier

Anne Elvey reviews

Letters from the Periphery and Ideas of Travel

by Alex Skovron and Peter Boyle

Matthew Macdonald reviews

Inmates & Bee Journal

by Sean Borodale

Heather Martin reviews

Ecliptical

by Hazel Smith

Kerry Greer reviews

Clean

by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Thom Sullivan reviews

Gas Deities

by Ed Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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