After travelling down such a long road to finally finishing More Lies, we wanted to pick Richard James Allen’s brain. So we interviewed him… Q: Give us a snapshot of your writing process More Lies was inspired by living the life of an artist in an East Village tenement walk-up in New York City in […]
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 […]
Rebecca Kylie Laws talks intimately about her new IP book In My Days and In My Sleep from her perspective as a poet and Catholic. Rebecca’s book will be launched at Bookoccino Bookshop on Sunday, 17 May, from 3 p.m. You can RSVP here. The organ in St Mary’s Cathedral, St. Mary’s Road, Sydney has […]
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 […]
Local Australian poet Murray Alfredson is off and racing with his second international review! It’s hard to hold a good poet down. “Certainly not for the faint-hearted, Gleaming Clouds by Murray Alfredson is the work of an unsparingly brave poet who looks at life, just as it is and hard in face. With impressive and […]
As Geoff Page wrote in The Australian this weekend (‘New and selected Australian poetry‘), the ‘New & Selected’ poetry collection always presents the interesting question of how to order the pieces – whether to order them chronologically (oldest to newest) or by topic, etc. Will the reader prefer to read the poet’s story from the […]
Murray Alfredson’s poetry makes you stop and think. Popular UK reviewer Valerie Penny agrees: “When this anthology first came to my attention, I had no idea what to expect from it. Whatever it was the works far exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend this collection of poems to poetry lovers everywhere. I was excited […]
