'The Poetry of Queensland is a collection of poems that are fresh, entertaining, and give an incredible insight into our great state of Queensland. The poems are passionate entertaining and written with love.' (Publication summary)
'As with "Australia Zoo," "Brisbane River" invites us not only to praise our now tamable, now untamable, above all coeval, ecosystems but also to consider how we have-at best poorly repaid, at worst bankrupted-our squarings (to adapt the title of Seamus Heaney's finest sonnet sequences). (10) The dialectics of "Australia Zoo," "Brisbane River," and "The Flood"-and Riordan's poetry as a whole-invites an ecopoetically foundational question: did nature hit us, or did we hit nature?' (Publication abstract)
'As with "Australia Zoo," "Brisbane River" invites us not only to praise our now tamable, now untamable, above all coeval, ecosystems but also to consider how we have-at best poorly repaid, at worst bankrupted-our squarings (to adapt the title of Seamus Heaney's finest sonnet sequences). (10) The dialectics of "Australia Zoo," "Brisbane River," and "The Flood"-and Riordan's poetry as a whole-invites an ecopoetically foundational question: did nature hit us, or did we hit nature?' (Publication abstract)
