Patrick Flanery
…Natalie saying to her husband. No, perhaps not. Some new facet of myself, new to the self who is present on this call with Natalie, sees that the self who…
Jenny Hedley reviews Body Shell Girl by Rose Hunter
Body Shell Girl by Rose Hunter Spinifex Press ISBN 9781925950502 Reviewed by JENNY HEDLEY I first encountered author Rose Hunter late in 2020 when I wrote about the decade I…
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…
Lesley Lebkowicz reviews While I am drawing breath by Rose Ausländer (trans)
While I am drawing breath By Rose Ausländer, translated by Anthony Vivis and Jean Boase-Beier ISBN 978 1906570 30 9 Arc Publications Reviewed by LESLEY LEBKOWICZ Black milk: the poetry…
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. It…
A distinct personal vocabulary by Audrey Molloy
…Parmar, S. (2020) Interview with Natalie Diaz ‘It’s an important and dangerous time for language.’ The Guardian, 2 July 2020 7. Diaz, N. (2020) ‘A conversation with Natalie Diaz.’ Interview…
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…