Sentences from the Archive By Jenn Webb Recent Work Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780995353800 Reviewed by ANNELISE ROBERTS “I peeled apples and sliced them finger-nail deep, waking you with their scent”…
Jen Webb lives in Canberra, and is the author of a number of works including the poetry collection, Proverbs from Sierra Leone (Five Islands Press, 2004). Bête…
Jen Webb is the author of a poetry collection, Proverbs from Sierra Leone (Five Islands, 2004), a short story collection Ways of Getting By (Ginninderra, 2006), and a dozen scholarly…
…one capable of the same immense religio-dramatic absorption as Francis Webb’s ‘The Canticle.’ And, like Webb, in The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems, the heavy weather is also the…
Writing The Pacific Jen Webb and Kavita Nandan (eds) IPS, 2007 ISBN 9789823660165 Reviewed by MARTIN EDMOND The title of this anthology, Writing the Pacific, immediately called…
…dramatise racial vilification. In Jen Webb’s ‘Four Cities’ ‘North has blurred/with south…’, Corey Wakeling’s ‘Mute’ is unobtrusively oblique while Luke Fischer sings to Cézanne. Madness is evoked from the unswerving…
…son, Margaret Pestorius (whom the police cast as an ‘elderly woman’, though she self-describes as a ‘direct action goddess’), Timothy Webb and Andy Paine are only just setting out on…
…up from his PS2 at the crescent-moon. Enraged by poetry, I circumambulate my flat like Frank Webb in CallanPark. The raven vanishes into the under-storey of brush across…
…the anthology include Philip Salom’s ‘Reading Francis Webb’, John Watson’s long poem ‘Four Ways to Approach the Numinous’, and Meredith Wattison’s brilliant ‘Holbein Through Silk’ where: Death, the cool,…
…in such lines and passages as “fire-flies and other insects webb-wagged from the air” (from “As Regarding Rhythm”) or “a pear takes shape” from “Promethean Fruit”, or the following passage…