Anthony Lawrence

Levitation

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May 2021, no. 431

'Having mastered the art of using magnets / in discretionary acts / like making a pencil / float above a table ...'

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'The Measurement Institute' a new poem by Anthony Lawrence

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December 2018, no. 407
'The Measurement Institute' a new poem by Anthony Lawrence

You wouldn’t think to look twice: no high fence
crowned with broken glass, no security guard
heavy with boredom and a lanyard of keys.

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Selected Poems 1968–2014 by Paul Muldoon

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September 2017, no. 394
Anthony Lawrence reviews 'Selected Poems 1968–2014' by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon’s friend and mentor, the late Seamus Heaney, once remarked that reading Muldoon was like being in a room with two informants: one a compulsive liar and one who always tells the truth. The trick, Heaney suggested, is ‘trying to formulate a question that will elicit an answer from either one that can be reliably decoded’.

Muldoon’s poems a ...

2017 Porter Prize Shortlist

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March 2017, no. 389

Drone

Someone says drone and I see the cell phone it tracks, see the hand holding the cell phone
Being tracked by the drone, see the arm connected to the hand holding the cell phone
Being tracked by the drone, see the shoulder manoeuvring the arm connected to the hand
Holding the cell phone being tracked by the drone, see the person attached to the shoulder
Manoeuv ...

Episode #6: The 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony

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The ABR Podcast

The 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony was held at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 27 August. The event was compèred by ABR Deputy Editor, Amy Baillieu, with opening remarks from poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke.