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Tag: Poetry

Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley

Poems that are all about the hidden things.

Australian, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Poetry, queer, Sydney

Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)

Strange, precise and elusive poetry.

America, Emily Dickinson, Poetry, US

Review: Winepress by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.

Chile, Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Laureate, Poetry

Review: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.

Nobel Laureate, Poetry, USA

Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry

Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green

A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.

Australian, Colonialism, Contemporary, Indigenous writers, Poetry

Review: Crow by Ted Hughes

A fascinating and ugly collection of poetry.

Poetry, Ted Hughes, UK

Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral

These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.

LGBTIQ, Mexico, Migrants, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong

These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.

Australian, China, Poetry, Singapore

Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr

The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.

Arabic writing, Australian, Colonialism, Middle East, Poetry

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