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Tag: Poetry

Best books I’ve read 2025

Maybe my gayest year of reading.

Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer, Year in review

Review: Inferno by Andrew Brooks

Poetry to snack to.

Australian, Poetry, Sydney

Review: Raging Grace (edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying)

Expansive poetry.

Australian, Disability, Health, Neurodivergence, Poetry

Review: Lost Lake by Bella Li

Dreamy strata of words and images.

Australian, Poetry

Review: Past & Parallel Lives by Kaya Ortiz

Poems that slip and jump through time.

Australian, Colonialism, LGBTIQ, Migration, Philippines, Poetry, queer

Review: Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani

Lithe and shape-shifting.

Australian, Colonialism, Israel, Palestine, Poetry

Review: Federico García Lorca (translated by J. L. Gili)

The spirit of the land.

20th Century, Poetry, Spain

Best books I’ve read 2024

Books to prevent enshittification.

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Stella Prize, Year in review

Review: Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali

Be taken into the dreamworld.

Colonialism, Fiji, India, Pacific, Poetry

Review: Chinese Fish by Grace Yee

Poetry that writes back against colonial inequity.

China, New Zealand, Poetry, Racism

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