Geoff Page reviews Rosemary Dobson’s Collected

…beyond, in some cases). Many of them, such as David Campbell, Judith Wright, Francis Webb and Douglas Stewart were Dobson’s close friends. Others included James McAuley and A.D. Hope. Still…

Fiona Hile reviews Rawshock by Toby Fitch

…their eyelids at bull-bars and generally ‘tearing the chest muscles of … any man with a memory’ (“Tangents”). “Beelines” calls to mind Francis Webb’s ‘a thousand warm humming stinging virtues’…

Books for Review

…David McCooey, UWA Press by Omar Sakr, Cordite Press by Autumn Royal. Cordite Press History and the Poet (Essays on Poetry) by Robert Wood, Australian Scholarly Publishing by Jen Webb,…

Toby Davidson

Webb Collected Poems (UWA Publishing ) and author of the critical study Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry (Cambria Press). His debut poetry collection is Beast Language (Five Islands Press).  …

Fiona Scotney reviews Net Needle by Robert Adamson

…Francis Webb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Michael Dransfield. These poems provide a reminder of the sociability of poetry. The act of naming other poets creates textual relationships, the…

Kavita Nandan

…latest images from Webb’s telescope Captured the collision of two galaxies: A cartwheel galaxy. And you swore to yourself: failure is transitory/ miracles do exist.   The perfect weather A…