Poetry
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney & Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
A Local Habitation: Poems and Homilies by Peter Steele, edited by Sean Burke
by Philip Harvey •
Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter & The Salt Companion to John Tranter edited by edited by Rod Mengham
by Gig Ryan •
Carnival Edge: New and selected poems by Katherine Gallagher
by Susan Lever •
Across the decades, on both sides of the Great Divide and at campfires and barbecues, in pubs and public halls and class-rooms, ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Henry Lawson and C.J. Dennis have been recited, selectively quoted, and parodied. Their most popular works have migrated into Australian folklore; hardly surprising, as what they wrote largely derived from the tradition of bush ballads and bush yarns. Theirs have become our stories, familiar, reassuring of our cultural roots and attitudes. To some extent, they are a kind of comfort literature.
... (read more)Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler
by Barry Hill •
The Perfume River: Writing From Vietnam edited by Catherine Cole
by Thuy On •