Thoughtful responses from poet Andy Jackson, interviewed by Rob from Advocacy for Inclusion (28th Nov 2023), online at Buzzsprout. Rob, discussing Andy’s poetry collection Human Looking The poem that really struck me that I sat with for quite a bit was separation, and for me it spoke of the violence of surgical intervention and a…
Category: conversations & interviews
26th Oct: Robbie Arnott & David Whish-Wilson in conversation—Hobart
Robbie Arnott (author of ‘Limberlost’) and David Whish-Wilson (‘The Sawdust House’) in conversation about their new books. Hobart Bookshop, 5:30 pm Wednesday 26th October This is a double Author Event with David Whish-Wilson and Robbie Arnott talking to each other about their newly released books The Sawdust House and Limberlost. The Sawdust House is a historical fiction set…
Alex Skovron on 3CR this morning
Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission…. “One of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to ‘Poetry Australia’, and at that time Les Murray was editing. I sent a bundle of poems representing those early ten years of my poetry writing but towards the later phase of that,…
To Observe that Kind of Devotion: A conversation (Camille Dungy and Major Jackson — ‘Orion’)
(Published recently in US literary journal ‘Orion Magazine’: read the full interview) Camille: One of the things that is most exciting to me about all the best writing going on right now, all politically engaged writing (and I think environmental writing has always been politically engaged) is how it requires a roving eye. A roving eye…