Ben Hession Ben Hession i(A117390 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Cemetery Visit i "Sun-faded synthetic flowers adorning", Ben Hession , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 30 2024;
1 Ben Hession Reviews Sydney Spleen by Toby Fitch Ben Hession , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 28 2022;

— Review of Sydney Spleen Toby Fitch , 2021 selected work poetry

'Sydney Spleen is the latest collection of poetry by Toby Fitch. Its title alludes to Charles Baudelaire’s volume of prose poems, Paris Spleen. Whilst for Baudelaire, there was a desire to import the expansiveness and consequent wider palette of nuances of prose into poetry, Fitch, in his collection, utilizes a mix of styles, including prosaic lyricism and a continuation of his experimentations with form and language as seen in Rawshock and Bloomin Notions of Other and Beau. The latter, in turn, owe more to the likes of Mallarmé, with their intrinsic strategies of deconstruction being explored in Fitch’s essay, Aussi/Or. The poems in Sydney Spleen are an acutely intimate response to a period of personal challenges for Fitch, with many focusing on the effects of a city wracked by the concurrent disasters of the 2019-2020 bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic. Fitch writes with disarming candour, and his skill in intimating his experiences capture the unease that for many permeates the recent cultural memory.' (Introduction)

1 That Is Not My Telephone Ringing i "I'm sorry, again", Ben Hession , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 35 no. 1 2021; (p. 258)
1 The Centrifuge i "Gripping an invisible rope, I hear", Ben Hession , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Wollongong Harbour i "The thin, long crush of the sea floods the break", Ben Hession , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Of Love, a Letter i "Dear reader, allow me some indulgence,", Ben Hession , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Ben Hession Reviews Whisper Songs by Tony Birch Ben Hession , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;

— Review of Whisper Songs Tony Birch , 2021 selected work poetry

'Tony Birch is a Naarm (Melbourne) based writer, who is probably better known for his prose, including his short story collections and novels, of which, The White Girl, won the Indigenous Writers’ Prize of the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards. He was also the winner of the Patrick White Award back in 2017. Whisper Songs is Birch’s second volume of poetry and comes five years after Broken Teeth. Much of Whisper Songs was written during last year’s COVID -19 related lockdowns and may be seen as a meditation on his Aboriginal identity. However, in Whisper Songs, the reader is more than a mere spectator of the poet’s autobiography and revelation. Rather, Birch invites us to share something of a largely personal journey, exploring a sense of heritage and connection to Country.'  (Introduction)

1 November 2019 i "A tannin sky filters a grief over the city,", Ben Hession , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 Poems for Thinking : Jennifer Maiden’s Brookings : The Noun Ben Hession , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , October 2019;

— Review of Brookings : The Noun : New Poems Jennifer Maiden , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Mapping a Journey Between Worlds : Ben Hession Reviews Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada Ben Hession , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2019;

— Review of Flood Damages Eunice Andrada , 2018 selected work poetry
1 Is Equal Too i "e is a number", Ben Hession , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November vol. 83 no. 2017;
1 To and From Hadamar i "It was nothing special, really, an overcast bus", Ben Hession , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2017;
1 Lyricism, Imagination and Vigour : Michelle Cahill’s The Herring Lass Ben Hession , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , July 2017;

— Review of The Herring Lass Michelle Cahill , 2016 selected work poetry
1 An Imitation of Catallus i "My dear, you have no ethical dealer –", Ben Hession , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2016;
1 Stuart Park Lagoon i "After the storm, the stream breaches", Ben Hession , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016;
1 Mercury i "Estrangement has its latitudes,", Ben Hession , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2016;
1 Clarity i "I have seen through the allusion", Ben Hession , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 nyc.com.au i "A new pretence of destination", Ben Hession , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 2 February vol. 19 no. 2 2009;
1 Sonnet for a City i "Water colour petals grow into a crowd, now they've found legs to weigh", Ben Hession , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 26 May vol. 18 no. 11 2008;
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