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Anthony Lawrence
Anthony Lawrence’s most recent collection is Ordinary Time, a collaboration with Audrey Molloy, (Pitt Street Poetry, 2021). His books and poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the NSW Premier's Award. He lives on the far north coast of New South Wales.
Andrew Sant’s tenth book of poems marks a new, welcome direction in his work. Many of his signature flourishes are still here: intimate, detailed observations on domestic life, travel, relationships, history, and popular music. But he has added something special: strange, unpredictable associations and a willingness to break free of the constraints that kept much of his formal, lyrical earlier w ... (read more)
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Blessings and praiseto the dark entanglement of caught branchesI continue to see,after years of crossing the causeway,as a black swanholding her place in the current, her headheld resolute and serene,her cygnets the shadows that advance and recedein the eddies she makes going nowhere.
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A doctor with a faceworn and grey as his cardigancalls my namein his rooms
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s ability to reveal the marvellous in the seemingly mundane layers of the quotidian is a striking aspect of this new book. There are compassionate, fluid meditations on many aspects of urban life, ageing, and a quirky cast of characters from the poet’s life and wide reading.
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Stephen Kelen’s new book is an ambitious, wide and free-ranging journey through past and present, war and peace, family life, travel and technology. It has all the hallmarks of Kelen’s previous books: a marvellous ear and restless eye, a gift for narrative that challenges as much as it reaffirms, and a willingness to tackle anything that takes his attention. These (mostly) narrative poems have ... (read more)
Having mastered the art of using magnetsin discretionary acts like making a pencil float above a tableor a throwdown of iron ... (read more)
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