Tag: Michael Farrell

Paul Foot Meets W. G. Sebald in a Light Blue Pencil

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by Luke Beesley This is the first time I’ve ever “blogged”, and it included a false start. I wrote a whole “blog entry” and then I looked back on it only to realise that it was too much in the tone of previous essays or reviews of books etc I’d written in the past. It’s a necessary tone in the context of a literary review which requires a certain objectivity or more a formality such as a collared shirt. But increasingly given over the last many years I’ve worked at home or in a small studio casually wearing jeans through…

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10 outrageous things that happened in poetry in 2015. You won’t believe what number 6 is!

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by Liam Ferney, This is and isn’t a top ten poetry list for 2015. There are ten entries. They’re not all poets or books. Very few, if any, were actually published this year. But it is an opportunity to share the work that most shaped my thinking about poetry this year. I said enough about Michael Robbins last week, but if I hadn’t The Second Sex would be on my list. Next year I’ll be contemporary. I promise. deciBels (Vagabond Press) Pam Brown’s brilliantly curated deciBels series, Vagabond Press’ Rare Objects replacement, proved a fertile well. Familiar faces in the…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 72.2: True Crime

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Southerly 72.2 is available to purchase here. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. POETRY Justin Clemens, the welt is fort island must blackberry you Geraldine Burrowes, evening things up Michael Farrell, A Writer’s Life Claire Gaskin, Macbeth* Adam Aitken, Ezra Pound in Mareuil Tim Grey, Untitled Ann Vickery, An Eye For an Eye ESSAYS Ross Gibson, Collision Course* Kristen Davis, Postcards from the ‘Bondi Badlands’: Meditations on the scene of the crime REVIEWS Kate Middleton on Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 71.3: A Nest of Bunyips

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Southerly 71.3 is available to purchase here. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. POETRY Rae Desmond Jones, Ash Wednesday Stuart Barnes, Cocoon Andrew Burke, “The birds are still in flight . . . ” Liam Byrne, soviet kitsch Peter Dawncy, ruins Michael Farrell, Telephone Liam Ferney, NC-17 Ian Gibbins, Dr Korsakoff and Colleagues Report Philip Hammial, Dear Sisters and Brothers D.J. Huppatz, Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angels Greg McLaren, The rusting land . . . , from Broken Ng Mei-kwan, Rainstorm (trans. Bonnie S. McDougall)…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 71.1: Modern Mobilities

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Southerly 71.1 is available to purchase here. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. ESSAYS Hoa Pham, Finding a place in the world – Vietnamese-Australian diasporic writing Ann Finegan, Liverpool Liverpool: The Skin of Translation Denise Formica, Mediation at Work: Australian Contemporary Fiction in Italian Translation POETRY Kate Lilley, Anniversary (Summer Vacation) John Carey, While they run the titles Lucy Wilks, Between Existence REVIEWS Jennifer Hamilton on Philippa Kelly, The King and I Kate Livett on Amanda Lohrey, Reading Madame Bovary Fiona Hile…

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