…the collection resists the future-orientation of setter-colonial society, its practices of’ ‘concealment’ and ‘amnesia’ (Rose 16, 11). Kefala engages the senses with startling vividness. Fireworks pour from the Sydney Harbour…
…You hold the rose aloft. You elevate. If root is a secret & rose a prize, You are the telling. In you the two are sisters. Throat of happiness, Singer…
…She had told everyone it was just a trip to the park. Vika took one last look at the old weatherboard house with the white picket fence and the rose…
…a “Christian faith story”. The opening declaration, “This is the rose on the gum”, seems to deny, or seek to supersede, the agency of an already storied land. The rose’s…
…not unreasonably. Some experts have argued that at least a few of these difficulties were the result of the undue influence of his mother, Rose. It seems she was both…
…like dew, covering the scuffed grass of our lives? Fish The sea came in with her and her curved snout and her tin coloured barnacles and long threaded rose…
…personal from the conventional. This year saw the passing away of several seminal poets: Jack Gilbert, Peter Steele and Rosemary Dobson. Geoff Page’s review of Rosemary Dobson’s Collected is a…
…These ties of memory and reverence for family and belonging bear relation to Natalie Harkins work in Dirty Words, with its white space, gaps, and recognition/space-holding of untold stories, lost…
…Natalie Clifford Barney, whose Salon she attended, becoming a member of Barney’s Académie des Femmes, and with whom she is noted to have ‘corresponded…for years, expressing passionate love and debating…
…through Evelyn Araleun’s first collection Dropbear, shifting between poetry, prose, micro-fiction and essay seamlessly. The taut threads are a reflection of her interdisciplinary work where writing and social justice intersect….