A LINE IN THE SAND: 20 YEARS OF RED ROOM POETRY

Edited by Tamryn Bennett with a foreword by Ali Cobby Eckermann, A Line In The Sand, brings together over 80 works from leading poets and public figures in a Red Room Poetry retrospective that covers 20 years of the best Australian poetry.

Poets include Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tony Birch, Dorothy Porter, Eloise Grills, Sarah Holland-Batt, Jazz Money, Omar Musa, Bruce Pascoe, Maria Tumarkin and Uncle Archie Roach AC. This collection provides illumination, space to speak and to listen, connection between truth and dreams, loss and life.

‘Poetry is pure expression. It’s an infinite canvas for linguistic creativity.’ Grace Tame

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ICAROS

Icaros returns to the shared roots of plant, animal and human existence. From the evolution of a single ancestor some four billion years ago, the poems entangle plant and human experience, song, ceremony, medicine and healing. Featuring illuminated artworks by Jacqueline Cavallaro.

'Icaros is a conversation between human and planet, a songbook of ancient and earthly wisdom, a mixture of mourning and adoration for plants, animals, and people. These pages act as a healing spell, reminding the reader to listen, look and commune with our beautiful world as it aches and blooms.' — Jacqueline Suskin

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Mascara
Australian Book Review

phosphene

Phosphene is a bi-lingual collection of poems that began in Mexico as a series of rituals and offerings at sacred sites. Poems were written as prayers for the wind, for buried cities and for the invisible. Published by Rabbit Poet Series, the book is illuminated by the collages of Jacqueline Cavallaro. A Phosphene exhibition included poems, artworks by Jacqueline Cavallaro, as well as audio and film by Guillermo Batiz and Tamara Elkins.

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Sydney Morning Herald
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Plumwood Mountain

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Líneas en Tierra | Lines in Land

Edited and translated by Tamryn Bennett and Guillermo Bátiz, Líneas en tierra / Lines in land showcases selected poems by nine contemporary Mexican poets. Beyond borders, walls and masks, this bi-lingual collection celebrates a myriad of contemporary voices that widen the ways we read ‘land’ and the languages of place.

Published by Australian Poetry and presented with the Digital Writers’ Festival 2019. Funded with the generous support of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Australia Council for the Arts. Artwork by Hilda Palafox

POETRY

‘Hyperlight’ and ‘Remember’ Herbarium Tales (forthcoming)

‘Bulu guunama / In the shadow of a snow tree’ Travel the world at Kew

San Pedro’ STILTS Journal, Issue 7

‘Weeping Beech’ The Mind of Plants

Ashbery Mode, TinFish Press

‘Marrow’ Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN)

‘Icaro / Heyowicinayo’ Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World Punctum Books

‘Beneath the Cathedral’ Cordite Poetry Review

‘ANEKI’ THEthe Poetry (comics poetry)

‘ANEKI’ Mascara Literary Review (comics poetry)

‘This night is nowhere and now’ Nth Degree

COMICS

‘Picturing childhood : youth in transnational comics’ University of Texas Press (chapter)

‘Praxis and Pedagogy’ ImageText : Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (essay)

‘Comics poetry: beyond sequential art’ Image [&] Narrative (essay)

‘Comics Poetry: The Art of the Possible’ Cordite Scholarly (essay)

‘Connecting Comics and Poetry’ THEthe Poetry (article)

‘Comics Poetry: Beyond sequential boundaries’ (dissertation)

ARTICLES & Reviews

‘Outside the lines’ Sydney Review of Books (essay)

English in Australia ‘Peering through the kaleidoscope of visual poetry’, Vol. 46. No.3, pp.55 - 67 (essay)

Mascara Literary Review, Bella Li and A.J Curruthers (review) 

Mascara Literary Review, Michael Brennan’s Autoethnographic (review)