Anne-Marie Newton Anne-Marie Newton i(A11836 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Letter to a Loved One i "Dear dear one Dearest one Dear cherished", Anne-Marie Newton , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 20)
1 Review Short : Tracy Ryan’s The Water Bearer Anne-Marie Newton , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

‘… the poem / will cover a multitude of signs.’ This line, appearing early in West Australian author Tracy Ryan’s ninth poetry collection, can be read as connecting directly to what’s been posited as the very purpose of poetry: to confound or thicken language, to free it from its mere communicative dimension, as Walter Benjamin might put it, and allow it to bump up against things-in-themselves. In fact, this line also bears witness to what the volume as a whole achieves. For the remarkable poetic field that is The Water Bearer sets in motion a multitude of signs and their constellations, but importantly, through the skill of a poet at the height of her powers, also leaves them covered. A line from a later poem (ostensibly about the function of windows) illustrates this achievement differently: ‘Hold threads under tension, a frame.’ With the multiple readings the collection provokes it becomes evident that the volume itself performs as a frame, holding together threads of signs, objects, meanings, but always ‘under tension’: the essential muteness of the outside – the overflow side of language, or what Rilke designated as ‘unsayable’ – feels ever pressing.'

1 Poem, Singular i "Prevailing poems contain all thought entities.", Anne-Marie Newton , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Irises : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2017 2017; (p. 62)
1 Review Short: Susan Fealy’s Flute of Milk Anne-Marie Newton , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;

Award-winning Melbourne poet Susan Fealy’s first full-length collection is an engrossing and richly resonant volume, one that – like all good artworks – reveals greater connective complexity with each subsequent encounter. The work is divided into two parts, with section one’s epigraph drawing the first sixteen poems into a meaning formation that takes off from a Louise Glück work. In the selected Glück couplet, God addresses humans on the making of a life, referring to the ‘bed of earth’ and ‘blanket of blue air’ that are meant to sustain us. Fealy’s first section proceeds to explore this earth / sky schema, in poems that travel through such ‘earth’-associated ideas as materiality, body, and the present, as well as through notions relating to ephemerality, thought / imagination, and the past (‘sky’). The lengthier part two approaches similar territory from a different angle, using an excerpt from Robert Haas’ ‘A Story About the Body’ to foreshadow a heavier emphasis on events relating to the life cycle. Circulating thematically through both sections are questions regarding the relationship between mind and body, or, put another way, between intellect and creativity, an issue that comes to a head in the striking, quite personal concluding poem. ‘Writing with the Left Hand’ makes use of Hélène Cixous’ theory of writing through the body to suggest that perhaps the soma is the more trustworthy aspect of the human, and that it should somehow be liberated (‘cut off’) from cerebral limitations. But prior to this a wealth of figurative detail portrays life as far more fluid than binary, so that, on balance, this final piece offers no resolutory conclusion.' (Introduction)

1 Review Short : Tina Giannoukos’s Bull Days Anne-Marie Newton , 2017 single work essay review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017;
'The first poem of Tina Giannoukos’s second collection ends with the line, ‘In space I hold the horn of plenty’. This reference to the classical symbol of abundance foreshadows the poetic landscape that follows in Bull Days, a volume teeming with external allusion and internal reverberation. Giannoukos’s primary subject is a romantic/erotic love relationship, which is dissected in a series of 58 disparately patterned sonnets. In early incarnations the sonnet form was, of course, commonly applied to the theme of love, and here Giannoukos follows tradition, imbuing much of the work with a vivid sense of lyrical presence. This presence is maintained through constantly fluctuating tonal effects – melancholic, vexed, ironic, mournful are but a few – causing the lyrical ‘I’ (who addresses an unnamed ‘you’) to declare late in the volume: ‘These shifts in mood are impossible to endure’. But endure it does, through ‘the long hour of the love poem’ (as sonnet XXXVIII puts it) which comprises Bull Days. For it is feasible to conceive of this sequence as one long poem: while its pieces record diverse and seemingly discrete events, it constructs, overall, an undulating narrative shape.' (Introduction)
1 Review Short : Dennis Haskell’s Ahead of Us Anne-Marie Newton , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;

— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry
1 The Time Problem i "Interminable problem. One moment constant", Anne-Marie Newton , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 51)
1 Review Short : Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Inside My Mother Anne-Marie Newton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 51.1 2015;

— Review of Inside My Mother Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Anne-Marie Newton Reviews L K Holt Anne-Marie Newton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March no. 49.1 2015;

— Review of Keeps : With Patience, Mutiny and Man Wolf Man L. K. Holt , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Response in Negative i "Wrote an extensive treatise", Anne-Marie Newton , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;
1 Reading Nietzsche at Twilight i "Under the smallish light of the only lamp", Anne-Marie Newton , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November no. 48.0 2014;
1 Relocations i "Smell of claustrophobia in the long roadway. The", Anne-Marie Newton , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 32 no. 1 1999; (p. 46-47)
1 The Border is a Place i "On arrival you feel the slap that", Anne-Marie Newton , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 44 no. 1 1999; (p. 50-51)
1 The Poison and the Antidote Anne-Marie Newton , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 44 no. 4 1999; (p. 64-66)
1 My Neighbour's Face Anne-Marie Newton , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 44 no. 4 1999; (p. 61-63)
1 How Many Lives i "After death she dies again.", Anne-Marie Newton , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 75 1998; (p. 112)
1 Plunging In i "Chest deep in thermal snow, I'm", Anne-Marie Newton , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 5 no. 8 1990; (p. 9)
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