My favourite reads of the year.
Tag: Poetry
Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young
A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.
Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki
A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.
Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada
Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.
Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley
Poems that are all about the hidden things.
Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)
Strange, precise and elusive poetry.
Review: Winepress by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.
Review: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.
Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.