Calling all “self isolating” artists (& others) We think it’s time to blast off from this virus-fuelled ‘hot spot’ to the fresh air of inspiration to be found in the cosmos. So we’re calling for entries to our first-ever digital anthology, which will have the theme/title Outer Space, Inner Minds. Any work that touches on our relation […]
It’s not often that poetry gets reviewed in the major newspapers any more, so we were very pleased to see The Sydney Morning Herald‘s review of our recent anthology of speculative poetry, not to mention their characterisation of IP as ‘risk taking’, which reminds us of Sir Humphrey’s notion of what it means to be […]
The most gratifying outcome for an author is, of course, to have his book bought in huge numbers. But the next best thing is to be the subject of an extended critical study. That’s what’s happened in the case of my book, Hemingway in Spain: Words and Images (1st edition, 1997; 2nd edition 2007), and […]
IP is very proud of our Poetry Series. Born out of the ashes of the Penguin Poetry Series, IP has published an impressive range of established & emerging Australian and New Zealand poets, and, last year, our first American poet, the excellent Andrew Hubbard, with his delightful Things That Get You. Recently, we dipped our collective […]
More international recognition for David P Reiter’s latest work! David’s recent win at the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2012 for the My Planets Reunion Memoir set the stage. And 2014 is looking to be bigger and better! The International Autobiography and Biography Association (IABA) Conference has just invited David to present Planets to a […]
I was delighted to have my first USA reading from My Planets at Op.Cit Bookshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We had been staying with my long time friend David de Vaux and Molly at their cosy home on the other side of the Rockies, about an hour and half drive from Santa Fe, and […]
What do President Obama and Madonna Have To Do with Project Earth-mend? Margaret Warner of Buzzwords had this to say in praise of Tiger Takes the Big Apple: Tiger Takes the Big Apple is the fourth book in the Project Earth-mend Series by David Reiter. Once again the adventurous Crew consisting of native Australian animals […]
Just in, a terrific review of Bringing Down the Wall, sent in by Barbara Braxton… Once, Joshua was very close to his grandfather but since his grandmother got really sick and died, he hasn’t seen him because his mother will not let him. Joshua suspects it has something to do with his grandfather’s new wife, […]
MakeItHappen has posted My Planets Reunion Memoir as an idea that might get a micro grant to enable me to present it at an international conference in Banff, Canada next May. Please connect to the page and “like” the idea to give it the best chance of being funded (costs you nothing): http://makeithappen.schusterman.org/idea/738 MakeItHappen is the […]
This is for Anne Morgan, on Bruny Island, who asked to see my poem about leeches, which appeared in The Cave After Saltwater Tide, p. 97 (Penguin, 1994). Happy to oblige, Anne! Snakes and Leeches she’s an islander she teases leeches cuddles tiger snakes at low tide or when she’s between men i’m not […]
