Outer Space, Inner Minds Digital Anthology

Outer Space, Inner Minds Digital Anthology

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 […]

#Dalek & David in the Sydney Morning Herald

#Dalek & David in the Sydney Morning Herald

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 […]

Local poet garners international reviews

Local poet garners international reviews

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 […]

The value of a ‘New & Selected’ collection

The value of a ‘New & Selected’ collection

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 […]

A poem about leeches

A poem about leeches

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 […]

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