books

Nick Cooke expresses measured enthusiasm for a promising debut chapbook from Paul Blake

Richie McCaffery enjoys meeting Kate Foley and accompanying her on a journey through her New & Selected Poems

Wendy French praises the eye for detail that reveals itself through Sue MacIntyre’s poetry

Peter Ulric Kennedy sizes up the strengths of Antony Johae’s poetry of Middle Eastern experience

Graham Hardie takes a close look at the elements making up a new collection by Christopher Southgate

Emma Lee finds that Myra Schneider is on good form in her new mythic-flavoured collection

Wendy French is enthusiastic about an ancient Greek sailor’s navigation log being given a poetic update by Leslie Saunders

London Grip comments on recent collections by Rosemary Norman, Julia Webb & Abegail Morley

Thomas Ovans gets to grips with an intriguing novel by John Lucas which deals with a small-town jazz musician’s rather complicated love life.

Wendy French is pleased to find that a themed anthology from Emma Press successfully does what it sets out to do

John Lucas reflects on Michael Wilding’s account of the lives and work of three significant figures from Australia’s early literary history

Graham Hardie finds David Attwooll’s landscape poems pleasingly evocative