Brendan Ryan

Hooded eyes, eyelashes thinning, she tailgates a semi,keeping up with him in case she breaks down.The truckie has her measure in his rear-view mirror –an old Falcon tracking the loneliness between Horsham and Koroit.Wide verges, scoria tracks radiating back to chimneyed farmhouses,the country she passes through steadies her like a needle:years of croquet, bowls and a Depression habit of not spen ... (read more)

Geoff Page’s latest poetry collection is a wide-ranging survey of some of the issues affecting contemporary Australian life. Underpinning Page’s poems of cafés, apartments, classical music, outback murders and domestic violence is a meditation on approaching mortality and the very idea of belief. In Page’s previous collection, Darker and Lighter (2001), the troubling nature of belief was hi ... (read more)