Nth Melbourne: Arcadia, 2016, 63pp. One thinks of Nathan Curnow – based on his previous books as far as the recent The Right Wrong Notes (which is really a kind of miniature selected poems) – as a fairly familiar kind … Continue reading
North Hobart: Walleah Press, 2012, 115pp. Most double-authored books of poetry have a contingent feel about them: two manuscripts, when edited down, are not long enough for a single volume and get yoked together, not necessarily by violence but not … Continue reading
Ashbery Mode (Hawai’i: Tinfish, 2019, 130pp.) Solid Air (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2019, 249pp.) Anthologies tend to raise more interesting issues than individual books of poetry. It may be that they just raise different issues but that those … Continue reading
np: GloriaSMH Press, 2016, 80pp. Kevin Brophy’s This Is What Gives Us Time together with David Musgrave’s Anatomy of Voice are the first two productions of a new press, GloriaSMH – a name which derives from the wartime Parisian resistance … Continue reading
