Cirrus@Austlit

A collection of twelve poets who featured at the Perth Poetry Club in 2020.

'As this poetry soars over the many continents of Tineke Van der Eeken's life, it repeatedly reveals places to land. It is fascinating terrain: with unflinching honesty she tracks love's tenacity and trauma's residue. Her range of subjects is vast, born of lived experience. But although they encompass the panoptic gaze of a visionary scanning past and future, these poems delight in the discipline of detail, forensic and personal. A virtuoso linguist, this poet remains accessible and enjoyable.' (Publication summary)

A collection of haiku and senryu.

'RECOIL ELEVEN (R-11) is an anthology published by Mulla Mulla Press (Coral Carter) and it celebrates the previous year’s poetry at Perth Poetry Club.

'Each year 10 to 12 poets are selected and one of their poems is published in a Recoil zine....'

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'Natalie D-Napoleon, Samantha Melia, Phillip Hall, Tony Walley, Deanne Leber, Peter Burges, Rita Tognini, Flora Smith & Aydan Lesina.'

(Source: publisher's website)

'"In Poems About the House Carol Millner negotiates complex moments of belonging and estrangement with great wit and tenderness. Her meticulously pared back poems lend the reader the acuity of an outsider’s eye as she shows how it is equally possible to resist and fall in love with an adopted home. This is rescued work made in an emergency—‘a language lost in flight’—that will last." - Lucy Dougan

'"The lyrical swing and boom of these lines summon up a world that is almost perfectly strange. Carol Millner's voice is disarmingly familiar, and yet skewed - her take on the task of living has a glint in its eye." - Jennifer Compton' (Publication summary)

'RECOIL TEN's 125 are feature poets who were selected  for the annual RECOIL zines and a some of the regular open-mikers. They represent a snapshot of the Perth Poetry Club over its first ten years.

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'RECOIL TEN celebrates a decade of diversity with poems selected from Western Australian, interstate, overseas and guest poets as well as regular readers.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The poems in Jackson’s fourth full-length collection explore themes of environment, society, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and daily life: the climate change of the world and the self. This is crafted, literary poetry, aware of its contemporaries and antecedents; yet these are poems that anyone with reasonable English can read or perform, that can break free from their author, go out and do work in the world. They encode rhythm and intonation along with possibilities of meaning. Their music will alter the atmosphere in your head.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Backyard Listening is an Australian collection in tone, theme and breadth, encompassing the rural, urban, suburban and desert. Written in styles of lyric poetry, prose poetry, poetic prose, prose interlaced with poetry, eco poetry and photography exploring themes of colonialism, post colonialism, community, country, family, loss and belonging.' (Publication summary)

'First publication of Sanna Peden, a Perth poet, who grew up in Finland and Malaysia now living in Perth Western Australia. This collection reflects on her life in those past places, her family as well as her Australian experience.' (Publication summary)

'The pressing, convincing voice of these poems drives you to read fast and then catch your breath, to search for answers and encounter love. Jackson’s second collection is fiery, bold and brave — it unravels everyday stories and raw encounters in a poetic and potent play of language and lemon oil. I don’t know of any other Australian poet who is writing with the combined verve and craft of Jackson. — Claire Potter'