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David McCooey

David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings by Yvonne Smith

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January–February 2018, no. 398
David McCooey reviews 'David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings' by Yvonne Smith

Plenty of novelists begin life as poets. Few, though, have managed to maintain their status as poet–novelists quite so impressively as David Malouf. But even Malouf, in his ‘middle period’, more or less dropped poetry for his ‘big’ novels ...

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2017 Books of the Year

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December 2017, no. 397

To celebrate the best books of 2017 Australian Book Review invited nearly forty contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors include Michelle de Kretser, Susan Wyndham, James Ley, Geordie Williamson, Jane Sullivan, Tom Griffiths, Mark Edele, and Brenda Niall.

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The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix

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May 2017, no. 391
David McCooey reviews 'The Pleasures of Leisure' by Robert Dessaix

The Last Resort (1986), a photobook by Martin Parr, includes a photograph of a woman sunbaking in the English seaside resort of New Brighton. The woman is lying, facedown and topless, on a concrete ramp, directly in front of the caterpillar tracks of a gigantic excavator ...

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Graphology Poems 1995–2015, vols I-III by John Kinsella

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March 2017, no. 389
David McCooey reviews 'Graphology Poems 1995–2015, Vols I-III' by John Kinsella

John Kinsella, who lives mostly in Australia, is a transnational literary powerhouse. Poet, fiction writer, playwright, librettist, critic, academic, collaborator, editor, publisher, activist; his activities and accomplishments are manifold. He is best known as a poet, and the publication of Graphology Poems 1995–2015 – a mammoth (and ongoing) discontin ...

Our Lady of the Fence Post by J.H. Crone

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January–February 2017, no. 388
Peter Kenneally reviews 'Our Lady of the Fence Post' J.H. Crone, 'Border Security' by Bruce Dawe, 'Melbourne Journal' by Alan Loney, and 'Star Struck' by David McCooey

A book called Our Lady of the Fence Post (UWA Publishing, $22.99 pb, 105 pp, 9781742589121) by a poet called J.H. Crone is an irresistible proposition, simply as a notion ...

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Poem of the Week - David McCooey reads 'Fleeting: Sylvia Plath at 80'

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Poem of the Week

In this episode of 'Poem of the Week' David McCooey reads 'Fleeting: Sylvia Plath at 80'. ABR Editor, Peter Rose, introduces David who then reads and discusses his poem.

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

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August 2016, no. 383
David McCooey reviews 'The Hatred of Poetry' by Ben Lerner

Do people hate poetry, as the title of Ben Lerner's terrific book-sized essay implies? In Lerner's account, poetry is associated with hatred and contempt, even by ...

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'Mick and Bianca Jagger, Newlyweds' by David McCooey

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June–July 2016, no. 382

We are in the back of the Bentley;
the church and the Riviera crowds
are behind us. The sunroof is open ...

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States of Poetry 2016 Podcast | State editor David McCooey introduces the Victorian anthology

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States of Poetry Podcast - Series One
In this first episode of the Australian Book Review's States of Poetry Podcast, state editor David McCooey introduces the 2016 Victorian poets: Amy Brown, Kevin Brophy, Michael Farrell, A. Frances Johnson, Cameron Lowe, and Jessica L. Wilkinson. ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | State Editor's Introduction by David McCooey

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States of Poetry Victoria - Series One

Melbourne is home to numerous poetic institutions, including Australian Poetry Inc, Collected Works (Australia's best bookshop for poetry), and, of course, Australian Book Review. Among these institutions there are vibrant – if sometimes occult – print, audio-visual, and spoken-word scenes. Regional Victoria is far from eclipsed by the metropolitan cent ...

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