Kevin Brophy: 'If angels can thrive in poetry, and if poems work best as conversations, then Lyndon Walker is one who keeps showing us these things are true.'

walleahpress.com.au/Lyndon-Walke...

(Robert Dessaix): 'I feel (in this year of Donald Trump, Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza) as if something has withered inside me. Something that’s always been there, isn’t there any more. There’s an emptiness. (And not the Buddhist sort.) I feel a sort of grief.'
walleahpress.com.au/launch-the-d...

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
#AustralianLiterature #richardflanagan

Ralph.Wessman @ garradunga.bluesky.social Australian authors group inc #JMCoetzee, #KimScott, #TimWinton, #MichelledeKretser and #CharlotteWood give federal politicians 5 books to encourage nuance in #MiddleEast debate.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Maybe of interest? New (free) downloadable pdf anthology of poems entitled ‘Class’ (Meuse Press, Australia) featuring 74 poets (45 Australians, along with international contributors published in 14 languages), at meusepress.tripod.com/Meuse.htm (scroll down the RHS of the page, click on Class.pdf).