David McCooey
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of memory, mourning and consolation edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan
by David McCooey •
A Foul Wind by Justin Clemens & The Book of Falling by David McCooey
by Judith Bishop •
Fishing for Lightning: The spark of poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt
by David McCooey •
Peter Boyle’s Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness (Vagabond Press, $25 pb, 82 pp) is a book-length elegiac poem dedicated to his partner, the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018). Unlike other works lamenting the illness and loss of a spouse, Boyle’s collection largely avoids representing the day-to-day demands of suffering from (or caring for someone suffering from) an incurable disease. Instead, Boyle’s poetry sequence offers a more metaphysical approach to the uncertainty and grief that he and his partner faced.
... (read more)The Song Remains the Same: 800 years of love songs, laments and lullabies by Andrew Ford and Anni Heino
by David McCooey •
To celebrate the best books of 2018, Australian Book Review invited nearly forty contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors include Michelle de Kretser
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