'Forget the dreary recitations of droning verse that you remember from your schooldays. Since then poetry has leapt off the page and into pubs and parks, where it’s entertaining a much wider audience. Award-winning poet Bronwyn Lovell writes of the new enthusiasm for poetry that’s a social and multisensory experience.' (18)
'Her father was a wrestler and her mother was consigned to a psychiatric facility. And when she was five months pregnant, the father of her child
abandoned her – by fax. Jane Cornelelius tells of the real-life adventures that prompted her to write Baby and a Backpack.