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For Moviegoers; New and Selected Poems by Nicholas Hasluck
For Moviegoers: New and Selected Poems by Nicholas Hasluck shows the way in which poetry, like enthralling movies, can open up memorable layers of thought and feeling, and other versions of reality. A prize-winning writer, the author of 14 novels and 3 previous works of poetry, this new book is a gem.
Why She Gave Me the Painting by Carolyn Abbs
‘Moving between Australia and her English birthplace, the poems offer an apparently effortless authenticity of voice and an admirable attentiveness to others, including strangers, birds and insects, and considerateness towards them.’
Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell, AM
Filling the Emptiness by Andrew Lansdown
‘There is considerable satisfaction in working with a nascent idea or sentiment or image, and in the process discovering associated ones, so that a poem started as one thing becomes incredibly something other, something stronger and better, …’
Andrew Lansdown
‘These poems, much like the widening gyre of Yeats’ The Second Coming, spiral outward from personal experience to touch upon universal truths …’
Lakshmi Kanchi, Contest Judge
‘The world is messed up, people are messed up, but love is still there, in our imperfect lives, in memories, in wounds.’
Shey Marque, Contest Judge
Minimalist: a field guide of mutability and loss by John Kinsella
‘Writing poetry, for me, is an acknowledgement of purpose—the reification of a belief that commitment and action can bring positive change.’
John Kinsella
Who Would Know? by Dennis Haskell
‘I want to write, and read, poems of emotional and intellectual power that mostly eschew rhetoric, avoid any sort of gimmickry while making a rich use of the English language, and seem to have demanded to be written.’
Dennis Haskell