Cirrus@Austlit

'There is always something exciting about witnessing a poet’s decisive use of the full field of the page. Savona’s postmodern poetics are technically brilliant and thoroughly wry, playful and incisive in their focus on breakage, division and conjoining – physically in the bodies of the poems, and metaphorically in the voices and bodies of her speakers. Self ie is a confident and exuberant collection of self-exploration and exploration of how and why we make meaning out of our lives, adding another distinctive and important voice to UWA Publishing’s poetry series.' (Introduction)

'Renga: 100 Poems is a collection over ten years in the making. Paul Kane and John Kinsella, writing in exchange via the Japanese renga form, have compiled a long-running poetic dialogue – unlike traditional renga, each poem is individually written and a response then followed by the other poet.'  (Introduction)

'Australian poets Gig Ryan and Cassandra Atherton engage with a range of Western mythological figures in their explorations of contemporary feminist issues. In selecting these mythological women as key figures in several poems, Ryan and Atherton both engage with historicised issues of voice, agency and control. Central to their explorations is the question of autonomy: who may speak, and what may she say? In this discussion, close readings of poems in the recent Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry anthology are compared with poems from these poets’ other collections, to establish on-going use of mythologised and canonical women as grounds for concern, critique, and construction of new ideas.'

Source: Abstract.