year 2016

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

Writing the ‘Big C’: Brian Docherty reviews a new collection from Wendy French

D A Prince finds that metaphor & reality combine in a nautically-flavoured collection from Lynne Hjelmgaard

Richie McCaffery admires the range and scope of an anthology celebrating half a century of Modern Poetry in Translation.

Graham Hardie considers a collection by Graham Buchan in which some rather sombre themes are balanced by welcome lighter touches.

Wendy Klein enjoys a side-by-side look at two compelling but entirely different books by Stuart Pickford and Nigel Pantling

Fiona Sinclair considers a heavyweight collection from Michael Rosen and decides that it does not pull any political punches.

Roger Caldwell discerns a remarkable felicity of phrasing in Matthew Barton’s third collection.

London Grip comments on recent poetry collections by Andy Green, Mandy Coe, Caroline Davies and Mo Gallaccio