US author Ron Riekki’s writing takes the measure of topics some might prefer not be discussed – protest, authoritarianism, immigration – as well as issues of which there’s too little …
Month: March 2025
Sorry to learn of the loss of English poet David Bircumshaw recently. Had thought I might get to catch up with him on a visit to England mid last year, …
Bell, Johanna Bignell, Meg Bolliger, Huni Melissa Cossins, Jennifer Kruimink, Kate MacKellar, Maggie Rogers, Lars Schindler, Pam Sculthorpe-Green, Nunami Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025
2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards ~ winners announced in Hobart this evening
In one of your poems you write about the spring that will come. On our geographical latitudes, where for a long time the winter covers the world in darkness and …
Everyone’s talking about AI, but it’s not there yet …
‘Something about Beethoven’
(By Bec Kavanagh … ‘The Guardian’, Friday 21st March 2025) The Richell prize-winner’s novel, set in a near-future lutruwita/Tasmania, asks what does it mean to have hope in the face …