Poetry

Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre is an important anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmate poetry, art and storytelling. Now in its twelfth year and tenth volume, over two hundred First Nations authors have shared their stories, songs and critical reflections to a general reading public, not only enlightening ‘outsiders’ about the conditions and contexts of Indigenous incarceration but also significantly contributing to the canon of Indigenous writing.

Can the analogy between poetry and work help us understand capitalism in the contemporary moment? Is poetry itself a form of work? 

There is something rebellious about an art form that takes as its central problem where the edges of objects should be, and why they can’t be elsewhere.

Is this a crisis of aesthetics or a reconfiguration of aesthetics?

Within the popular imagination, Rumi’s poetry is inextricably entwined with love – a love that is resolutely unfettered, an unconditional love that permeates the cosmos, caressing one and all.

These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through.

Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail.

By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title.

Revenants creates a liminal zone of perception in Adam Aitken’s oeuvre.

knowledge as a body is dead without imagination— Jordie Albiston In the wake of the loss of Australian poet Jordie…