Review of ‘Bullet Paper Rock’ By Abbas El-Zein

Review by Laurie Steed on the Writing WA website 11 September 2024

Upswell subscriber letter by Lloyd Jones for his tremendous The Empty Grandstand

Notes of the empty grandstand When I was a child, before I had been up in an aeroplane, I was taken to the upper deck of the new grandstand on the outskirts of our town. It was a near vertiginous experience. A teetering open slope exposed to the raw elements. Rain. Ferocious gales. From my […]

Upswell subscriber letter from Nathan Shepherdson at the arrival of ‘soft meteorites’ into the world!

Why poetry? If you ask that question, you’re already in the room. 20 years ago, Tom Shapcott told me how he once had an eye on becoming a composer instead of a writer. During his stint in National Service, he realised the economy and weight of poetry could be carried in a notebook in his […]

Launch speech by Lynda Stoner for Anne Coombs’s Our Familiars

delivered on Friday 23 August 2024 at Gleebooks Sydney I acknowledge we are meeting tonight on the land of the Gadigal People, I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, as well as to emerging leaders.  I also thank the Traditional Custodians for caring for Country for thousands of generations. Aboriginal and Torres […]