Toby Davidson reviews The Brokenness Sonnets I–III & Other Poems by Mal McKimmie

The Brokenness Sonnets I–III & Other Poems

by Mal McKimmie

5 Islands Press, 2011

ISBN: 978-0-7340-4425-9

Reviewed by TOBY DAVIDSON
 

When Mal McKimmie’s debut collection Poetileptic was released in late 2005, I attended the launch at Carlton theatre where I had just seen Oscar Wilde’s Salome. A small, high-quality audience of esteemed poets, editors and friends were treated to the birth of a book which had to fight and kick to be born, being from a West Australian poet in the East without extensive connections. As a