Paul Hetherington
Paul Hetherington is Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra, co-editor of the journal Axon: Creative Explorations and head of the International Poetry Studies Institute. His most recent collection of poetry is Six Different Windows (2013).
All essays by Paul Hetherington
Dissolution and Reclamation: Unbelievers, or ‘The Moor’ by John Mateer
Places are, of course, not exchangeable, but in Mateer’s roaming imaginary they become, at least to some extent, drawn into a kind of codification of broad historical tendencies and movements. This constitutes a way of rethinking traditional narrative historical accounts and their often doubtful ‘truths’. Unbelievers, or ‘The Moor’ is a book about imagined geographies as much as real ones.
Haunted rooms: Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton
Memory, imagination, dreaming, invention and protean makings: such preoccupations are at the heart of Lisa Gorton’s new poetry collection, Hotel Hyperion. This relatively short and condensed book returns again and again… to related tropes and imagery: weather, mirrors, rooms, crystals, hauntings and strange effects of light.