Natalie Rose Dyer
Natalie Rose Dyer is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing at Melbourne University with an Australian Postgraduate Award. She received a BA with first class Honours in Cinema (2006)…
The Memory of the Tongue: Sujata Bhatt’s Diasporic Verse, by Paul Sharrad
…a limb (“Shantih” The Stinking Rose 78). One language can have different words (jal, pani) with different associations for the same phenomenon in its several aspects (“Water” The Stinking Rose…
Gabriela Bourke reviews Archival Poetics by Natalie Harkin
Archival Poetics by Natalie Harkin Vagabond ISBN 9781925735215 Reviewed by GABRIELA BOURKE It can be tempting to imagine that colonisation is a thing of the past; that posting an infographic…
Aimee A. Norton reviews When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz
When My Brother was an Aztec By Natalie Diaz Copper Canyon Press ISBN 9781556593833 Reviewed by AIMEE A. NORTON Natalie Diaz’s debut collection is a book about appetites….
Rose Lucas reviews Crow College by Emma Lew
Crow College: New and Selected Poems Emma Lew Giramondo ISBN: 978-1-925818-05-5 Reviewed by ROSE LUCAS This year, Giramondo has released a new selection of the poems…
Pip Newling reviews Dirty Words by Natalie Harkin
Dirty Words by Natalie Harkin Cordite Books ISBN 978-0-994259-63-9 Reviewed by PIP NEWLING ‘Consider this words like lives have histories actions like knives cut-deep’ (p.23) Natalie Harkin’s first collection of…
Rose Lucas reviews Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn UWAP, 2019 ISBN 978-1-76080-022-2 Reviewed by ROSE LUCAS What are the elements – multiple, multivalent – which constitute and compose us as individuals, as…
Rose Hunter reviews Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez & Alí Calderón translated by Mario Licón Cabrera
Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez & Alí Calderón translated by Mario Licón Cabrera Vagabond Press Reviewed by ROSE HUNTER The Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez &…
Rose Hunter reviews Hollywood Starlet by Ivy Alvarez
Hollywood Starlet by Ivy Alvarez dancing girl press Reviewed by ROSE HUNTER Each poem in Ivy Alvarez’ chapbook Hollywood Starlet features a female star from years past, for example such…
Emma Rose Smith reviews Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright Giramondo ISBN 978-1-922146-93-9 Reviewed by EMMA ROSE SMITH ‘I just saw Fiona Wright,’ says my friend over the phone. ‘At least, I thought…