With her recent release of Never Good at Maths, we wanted to know more about Kate Maxwell beyond her inability to do maths…so we interviewed her. Q: Your book doesn’t actually explore math. How and why did you choose to title it the way you did? A: There’s some truth in the title that maths […]
With so many views on belief and doubt, we interviewed Paul Scully to get a better insight on navigating the philosophical discussions, as explored in his poems in The Fickle Pendulum. Q: What motivated you to explore belief and doubt, and the way we view them? A: I attempted to Australianise The Conference of the […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
