First published in the "First Folio" in 1623 and likely written in the 1590s, "King John" is one of William Shakespeare's best historical plays. It centers on the events of King John's reign of England during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. King John, son of Henry I of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne after the death of his older brother, King Richard I. John's claim to the throne is challenged by the King of...

The Life Between reflects an observation of Tim Winton's that West Australians feel caught between sea and desert. The first of the collection's three sections, 'Looking out to Sea', speaks of how coastline has shaped the poet's consciousness, whether in the communities that spring up suddenly or reflective moments of looking across the waves. 'The Lives we Know' tells a story of growing up in the surrounds of Perth in the middle of the twentieth...

Even idyllic lives can take an unexpected turn for the worse. This is a story of a proud young family living a good life whose future falls apart when the fates turn against them.A boy grows up on King Island in Bass Strait with his parents on their farm. His mother is a beautiful hard working member of the community as a senior nurse in the Islands hospital a person loved and admired by all who know her.His father is a successful farmer and lobster...

Responses to poems in Figure in the Landscape - Dirk Kruithof, commenting on the poems about art/artists and music/musicians 'Danny's poems are compellingly enjoyable. (I've just raced through those, have you got any more?) They are human, perceptive and idiosyncratic - he's not afraid to cut through the lazy conventions of thought.' George Clark, responding to the sequence 'Spain, Are you Here (early 1980s)' 'There is so much poetry in Spanish history!...

Once described by Andrew Sant as a 'great talent', Andrys Onsman writes from a migrant's perspective, both joyfully engaged and warily observant. His poetry, plays, essays and translations often focus on how relationships between people and ideas shape the way in which they construct their world. In this collection of poems, Andrys considers how we continually recreate our identities through our relationships with the people, places and ideas we love...

Sardine Can is packed with 60 oblique tales and poems of assorted bit players at large; chiefly the mad, the bad, and the brokenhearted. Some traverse seas, wars, the twilight years, and squalor; others, the forlorn ruins of their consciences. There are weddings, funerals, road trips, and obsessions; loners, musos, insomniacs, and lovers. With ennui the haunting starts out early as just a sting. It first creeps within the marrow, then trawls across...

REVIEWS"There is a freshness and vibrancy in Malobi Sinha's poems that I for one have rarely encountered in the otherwise Byzantine mazes of much contemporary poetry. The complex layers of meaning in her poems, beneath their often apparent simplicity, rewards the reader at every turn."Graham Pitts, Screenwriter"Malobi Sinha writes poems of suppleness and emotional candour... Although Australia is rich in poetic talent like Ms Sinha...the rewards of...

Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I've been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - 'I think, therefore I am.' Rovelli is saying something similar, that it is our memories that make us who we are. Rovelli...

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Adventurous, curious and moving, Christie's work braves abstraction and socio-political insights. After Luce Cannon (Titus Books, 2007) and The Facts of Light (Vagabond Press, 2014), Carbon Shapes and Dark Matter is Christie's third collection of poetry. Time after time lines come into focus, excoriating and yet lyrically beautiful.-Jack Ross 'Stephanie Christie releases poetry until the "mind is out of its debt." Political, vulnerable, arresting...