Featured Poetry essays Louis Kleeon poetry and work John Kinsellaon Lisa Gorton Ali Hammoudon Rumi Louis Kleeon poetry and work John Kinsellaon Lisa Gorton Ali Hammoudon Rumi Juncture Essay: Louis Kleeon poetry and work Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work Can the analogy between poetry and work help us understand capitalism in the contemporary moment? Is poetry itself a form of work? Mar. 2023 • On writing • Poetry • Juncture Review: John Kinsellaon Lisa Gorton Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton Giramondo Published August 2022 ISBN 9781922725301 96 pp ‘I think I know that smile’ If extraordinary things (‘mirabilia’) attract our attention and interest us, it seems inevitable that our perceptions will either occlude or… Mar. 2023 • Poetry Review: Ali Hammoudon Rumi The Gift of Rumi by Emily Jane O’Dell Pan Macmillan pp 320 Published August 2022 ISBN 9781250261380 That I May Unfold The Pain Of Yearning 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. Mar. 2023 • Poetry All essays tagged: Poetry Juncture Essay: Louis Kleeon poetry and work Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work Can the analogy between poetry and work help us understand capitalism in the contemporary moment? Is poetry itself a form of work? Mar. 2023 • On writing • Poetry • Juncture Review: John Kinsellaon Lisa Gorton Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton Giramondo Published August 2022 ISBN 9781922725301 96 pp ‘I think I know that smile’ If extraordinary things (‘mirabilia’) attract our attention and interest us, it seems inevitable that our perceptions will either occlude or… Mar. 2023 • Poetry Review: Ali Hammoudon Rumi The Gift of Rumi by Emily Jane O’Dell Pan Macmillan pp 320 Published August 2022 ISBN 9781250261380 That I May Unfold The Pain Of Yearning 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. Mar. 2023 • Poetry Juncture Review: Patrick Allingtonon Grace Chan and Joan Fleming Every Version of You by Grace Chan Affirm Press 288pp Published July 2022 ISBN: 9781922806017 Song of Less by Joan Fleming Cordite Books 87pp Published January 2022 ISBN: 9780648917632 All Futures Are Possible 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. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Speculative fiction • Juncture Review: Helen Koukoutsison Peter Skrzynecki Travelling Among the Stars by Peter Skrzynecki Vagabond Press 208pp Published May 2022 ISBN: 9781925735352 From the Porch Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Migration • Poetry Juncture Review: Michael Farrellon David Stavanger Case Notes by David Stavanger UWAP 120 pp Published February 2020 ISBN: 9781760801199 Inside Pathetic Language 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. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Juncture Review: John Kinsellaon Adam Aitken Revenants by Adam Aitken Giramondo Books February 2022 ISBN 9781925818932 All Ghosts Revenants creates a liminal zone of perception in Adam Aitken’s oeuvre. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry Rewriting Kinship Essay: Jessica Wilkinsonon Jordie Albiston ‘The precise punctuation of your breath’: Jordie Albiston’s oeuvre knowledge as a body is dead without imagination— Jordie Albiston In the wake of the loss of Australian poet Jordie… Oct. 2022 • Australian literature • Australian writers • Kinship and care • Poetry • Rewriting Kinship Review: Ali Jane Smithon Jill Jones Wild Curious Air by Jill Jones Recent Work Press 72pp Published September 2020 ISBN: 9780648834342 Hot Composting Wild Curious Air finds its material in what has come before, digs into the turbulence and profusion of the present, and propagates the demand that we attend to the reality and urgency of this moment. Jun. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry Review: Lucia Moonon Kristen Lang Earth Dwellers by Kristen Lang Giramondo 112 pp Published March 2021 ISBN: 9781925818673 To Sleep, To Wake How can poetics work to recover meaningful spaces of ecological acknowledgement and encounter? In Earth Dwellers, Lang demonstrates the complicity of language in severing the Earth from ourselves. May. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry 1 2 … 15 Next