Kate Middleton

'Balcony 2', a new poem by Kate Middleton

October 2012, no. 345 • 24 September 2012

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Kate Middleton reviews 'Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud' by Barry Hill

July–August 2012, no. 343 • 10 July 2012

With his new volume of poetry, Barry Hill has set himself the challenge of writing a book focused on the visual art of the recently deceased Lucian Freud without, excepting the cover image, accompanying reproductions of the paintings to which he responds. Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud is a collection of ekphrastic poems born out of the obsessive return to a body of painting that spanned mu ... (read more)

'Shearing the Rams', a new poem by Kate Middleton

July–August 2012, no. 343 • 07 July 2012

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Remembering Peter Steele

From the Editor’s Desk • 04 July 2012

Bricks, knowledge, gravity   ‘I just read a history of bricks.’   We learn about the ways our teachers have influenced us over many years. As an undergraduate student at the University of Melbourne, I took every class taught by Professor Peter Steele SJ. More than a decade after I first sat in his office, and only days after his death, I recall a statement he made almost as an as ... (read more)

Kate Middleton reviews 'and then when the' by Dan Disney

June 2012, no. 342 • 22 May 2012

Dan Disney’s début collection, and then when the, is a slim volume infused with irreverent outings in philosophy and place. Just as the opening poem places its speaker in a philosophy class, philosophers offer constant points of reference. Disney reformulates such well-worn dicta as Descartes’s cogito ergo sum with verve, as in the poem ‘Towards a unifying theory of non-coincidence’, in w ... (read more)

'After Reading Henry James’s "The Awkward Age"', a new poem by Kate Middleton

March 2012, no. 339 • 27 February 2012

Mitchy: Do you positively like to love in vain? Kate Middleton ... (read more)

Kate Middleton reviews 'The Best Australian Poems 2011' edited by John Tranter

February 2012, no. 338 • 20 January 2012

With the recent focus on new anthologies in the Australian poetry community firmly placed on UNSW Press’s Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray) and the publication of two anthologies dedicated to the work of younger poets (UQP’s Thirty Australian Poets and John Leonard Press’s Young Poets), the arrival of Best Australian Poems 2011 could seem almost like a ... (read more)