Poetry
The Poems of T.S. Eliot edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue & The Poems of T.S. Eliot edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue
by Benjamin Madden •
Rose Lucas reviews 'Ground' by Martin Langford, 'Eating my Grandmother' by Krissy Kneen, and 'Now You Shall Know' by Jennifer Compton
by Rose Lucas •
In their very different ways, these three collections attest that contemporary Australian poetry is alive, robust, and engaging.
Puncher and Wattmann have delivered a generous collection of Martin Langford's most recent poems, Ground ($25 pb, 158 pp, 9781922186751). As we have come to expect from Langford, the voice we find here is strong – passio ...
The Rise of the Machines and other love poems by Peter Goldsworthy
by Philip Harvey •
Prayers of a Secular World edited by Jordie Albiston and Kevin Brophy
by Peter Kenneally •
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Jan Owen
by Brian Nelson •
Peter Kenneally reviews 'The Law of Poetry' by MTC Cronin, 'The Ladder' by Simon West, 'Jam Sticky Vision' by Luke Beesley, 'Immune Systems' by Andy Jackson, and 'The Hour of Silvered Mullet' by Jean Kent
by Peter Kenneally •
With her first book, Zoetrope, in 1995, MTC Cronin announced herself as a very particular force in Australian poetry. It was not just that her début was so much more immediately arresting than most poets' first outings, but also that it had real authority. This authority, coming from force of intellect and a kind of absolutist, almost inscribed imagination ...
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
by Andrew Fuhrmann •