Stephen J Williams

Poussard’s Outbreak of Peace (Billabong Press, $3.95 pb, 44 pp) is a personal record of the women’s action at Pine Gap in November 1983. It is difficult to say precisely how Poussard achieves the fine balance of political and personal commentary that she does, but her introduction provides a clue. ‘Australians are an urban, shore-hugging people,’ she writes, ‘but in the middle of our urb ... (read more)

Kate Llewellyn’s poetry is immediately accessible and clear, but not simplistic. She is completely at ease, unlike most writers, with reading her work aloud; this may be a function of an eminently readable style of writing, or the reverse, where the style follows .the demands of reading aloud. Either way, it works. Llewellyn is very good when retelling, in fact rewriting, mythological and folkl ... (read more)