GloriaSMH Press News & Book Reviews

News Congratulations to Petra White on Reading for a Quiet Morning being Highly Commended in the poetry category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018, just announced.  Follow the annual December-issue round-up of 2017 recommended books by Australian...

Renga : 100 poems ~ John Kinsella & Paul Kane

ISBN: 978-0-9945275-7-8 RRP: 29.95 Launch speech, by Lisa Gorton, Melbourne, December 2017 This is a rich, distinctive book of poetry. It’s also a ‘century’, as one might say, cricketwise. John Kinsella and Paul Kane have chosen to work in the Japanese tradition of...

Reading for a Quiet Morning ~ Petra White

  ISBN:  978-9945275-6-1 RRP: $ 27.95 Reviews Read Brianna Bullen’s review of Reading for a Quiet Morning, in Plumwood Mountain, An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, February 2018. Read Geoff Page’s review of Reading for a Quiet Morning, in The...

Fire Work: Last Poems ~ Aileen Kelly

ISBN:  978 0 9945 275 4 7         Readers of Aileen Kelly’s earlier books will recognise that in these final poems she is at the height of her powers. The poems are abrupt, distilled and beautifully rhythmed. Life is her object and her passion, as...