Two Poems

Between 2008 and 2012, Elizabeth had to grapple with her sister’s psychotic break, her brother-in-law being killed in Raratonga and the decline and death of her mother, following her motor neuron dise...

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Moonlight       Kate Gray (1975–1991) I start up a conversationwith occasional Kate. Too late,too late, but with a big sighshe appears in the sky. I tell her the home doesn’t fo…

Lyrical lines printed on side of city’s fleet of rubbish trucks now recognised as one of Netherlands’ proud traditions

1968 Copernicus is giving Watermelon Sugar a gounder the shade of the pōhutukawa tree. Simone de Beauvoir has her shades onso no one knows what she is thinking.She is in charge of the stereo and ha…

Music, prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the unique Ivor Cutler.

Research Is WorkThe world is a complex place with far too many problems and questions for any individual. That is why universities and research institutions exist, to employ specialists to contribute ...

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

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Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of ...

On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

John Glenday on Spontaneity and Revision

Why do women only want someone who can make them laugh?

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1987 Welcome to the Happy World Hotel! Gina Tully – amateur acrobat, woman of conscience and manager of a bottom-of-the-cliff residential hotel – has to balance her ideas about how the world should be...

Click here to enter the 2027 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that entries to the 2027 Peter Porter Poetry...