Denise O’Hagan reviews: From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium by Mario Baghos As its title suggests, From the Ancient Near East to Christian

Sapling’s Emerging Writer Series (Black Lawrence Press)Sapling #596, 26 April 2021  Sapling: Tell us about the process of getting your book published. Did you enter contests?

Special edition featuring poets from Australia & New Zealand. https://liveencounters.net/2021/04/22/live-encounters-poetry-writing-australia-new-zealand-may-2021/ Capturing the Spirit: Contemporary poetry from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa When considering the rich

Published in the Rochford Street Review. In every poetry collection, there is one aspect, one overwhelming impression, that we are left with which later comes

Widely considered one of Australia’s finest writers, David Malouf was born in 1934. After teaching in Britain in the sixties, he returned to Australia in

Denise O’Hagan reads from and talks about her poetry book The Beating Heart. This covers such things as how the book came about, the relationship

Published in The Blue Nib. Audrey Molloy is an Irish poet based in Sydney. Her work has been widely published and appeared in The Blue

Mark Tredinnick’s third collection, A Gathered Distance (BirdFish), appeared in February 2020; his fourth, Walking Underwater (Pitt Street), surfaces in December. Mark’s books include The Blue Plateau and Fire Diary; his awards, an

Ivy Alvarez is the author of Diaspora: Vol. L (Paloma Press, 2019), The Everyday English Dictionary (Paekakariki Press, 2016), Disturbance (Seren, 2013), and Mortal (2006).

Robyn Rowland has 14 books, of which 11 are poetry, including Mosaics from the Map (Doire Press, Ireland 2018). Under This Saffron Sun – Safran

Judith Beveridge is a Sydney-based poet and recipient of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Poetry (2019), the Christopher Brennan Award for

Editorial for The Blue Nib, Issue 43. In selecting poetry for this Issue, I was reminded yet again of the particular form of magic that