Judith Beveridge

'Rain' a poem by Judith Beveridge

June 2009, no. 312 • 01 June 2009

      Rain bubble-wrapping the windows. Rainfalling as though someone ran a blade down the spines   of fish setting those tiny backbones free. Rain            with its squinting glance, rain ... (read more)

'The Boathouse' by Judith Beveridge

April 2018, no. 400 • 27 March 2018

ending on a line by John Burnside No one on the boats, just cats – thin, furtive.There’s the blown cry of terns and the wheedlingembarkations of crows, but you will not slip the knot of your thoughts, what has brought youto this harbour. Rain in the distance, the samecold chant echoing in your steps, in the oars and in the salt-encrusted timbers of the boatspitching by the pier. The smell o ... (read more)

Judith Beveridge reviews 'Creating Poetry' by Ron Pretty

March 2016, no. 379 • 25 February 2016

This updated and revised edition of Creating Poetry – first published by Edward Arnold in 1987, and then by Five Islands Press in 2001 – is one of few poetry guidebooks written by an Australian poet. One of its pleasing features is that it uses the work of Australian poets, including John Tranter, Geoff Page, Kevin Brophy, Meredith Wattison, Judith Wright, and many others. The final chapter gi ... (read more)

Judith Beveridge reviews 'Happiness' by Martin Harrison

December 2015, no. 377 • 25 November 2015

'Happiness' may seem like an odd word for the title of a book of poetry, and given the circumstances of Martin Harrison's final years – his illness, the tragic death of his younger Tunisian lover, Nizar Bouheni – the title is rather ironic, but the poems in this posthumous volume are rich, bountiful, full of the same 'worshipful attention', the same sense of open contemplation and wonderment t ... (read more)

'Young Male Lyrebird at the Illawarra Treetop Fly', a new poem by Judith Beveridge

November 2014, no. 366 • 01 November 2014

He has his medley nearly ready. He has pieced togetherhis own fantasia, even if just from the sound of an owlregurgitating a pellet of bat fur, a park ranger’sjangling keys, the creak of cable strain when bored, ... (read more)

'The Blind Soothsayer', a new poem by Judith Beveridge

June 2012, no. 342 • 22 May 2012

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'At Rajkote', a new poem by Judith Beveridge

April 2011, no. 330 • 24 March 2011

  At Rajkote from Devadatta’s poems ... (read more)