Poetry
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson, edited by Devin Johnston
by Simon West •
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu
by Mykaela Saunders •
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of memory, mourning and consolation edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan
by David McCooey •
The Other Side of Daylight: New and selected poems by David Brooks
by John Hawke •
David Brooks, critic, novelist, short story writer, animal rights activist as well as poet, taught Australian Literature, ran a writing program, and co-edited Southerly at the University of Sydney. He has published six collections of poetry, the latest (The Peanut Vendor) included in his new and selected poems: The Other Side of Daylight (UQP, 2024). He lives in the Blue Mountains with rescued sheep and advocates for kangaroos. The Sydney Morning Herald called his The Balcony (UQP, 2007) ‘an electrical experience’.
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