Beautifully designed in high-quality hardback, complete with line drawings by Bridget Farmer, it seems the ideal book for aunts to bestow on nephews and nieces who display literary promise. This ...

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Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jennifer Compton is a Melbourne-based poet and playwright. Her poem Physics, which appears in the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s Poetry Month, which prompts me to wonder: what is the face of Australian poetry today? Could it be literary darling Nam Le, whose ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Les Murray says in his introductory remarks that most Australian poets live in Victoria. He also comments that "education and politics, ...

Tall towering gum trees blowing softly in the wind. Rain that falls heavy causing the floods. That's all part of Australia. Its people are friendly, not cold. The wind tells its stories of old, as it ...

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