A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Whirlwind Duststorm, by John Hawke. Grand Parade Poets, $19.95. It will be interesting to see what mainstream readers and reviewers of Australian poetry make of John Hawke's second collection, ...

If the hustle and bustle of the season is draining your holiday spirit, a few funny Christmas poems might be just what you need to bring back some jolly into your life! In fact, we have plenty of ...

"The New Book" collects the late poet's final thoughts, revealing "even more of who she always was" as her health declined ...

In a blurb for These Were My Homes: Collected Poems, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra describes the late poet Vijay Nambisan’s worldview, as espoused in his poems, as “bleak”. The book gathers together the two ...

Sabrina Benaim became a viral success when her spoken word poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother blew up online. But after a world tour and two bestselling books, the Canadian poet is ready to ...