About the Poets
Details about our represented poets
WHIRLWIND DUSTSTORM BY JOHN HAWKE
All poetry, not just Australian poetry, is always in need of products that supply art, intellect and satiric bite. This is why Grand Parade Poets is very pleased to announce the publication of Whirlwind Duststorm, a new volume of poetry by John Hawke, which certainly possesses all three. Consciousness is like the experience of the poem –
THE GANG OF ONE – SELECTED POEMS by Robert Harris
Grand Parade Poets are pleased to be publishing THE GANG OF ONE, the Selected Poems of Robert Harris, edited by Judith Beveridge with an introduction by Philip Mead. Though well represented in anthologies, Harris (1951-1993) is a major writer who has until now missed out on the Selected Poems milestone. Unaligned with any ‘faction’, though
WITH THE YOUNGSTERS – A COLLECTION OF GROUP SESTINAS & GROUP VILLANELLES Alan Wearne, Editor
Alan Wearne, publisher of Grand Parade Poets and editor of WITH THE YOUNGSTERS writes: The 23 sestinas and 22 villanelles contained in this volume are the result of group work involving my poetry classes 1998-2016. And if they started as teaching exercises showing students how to construct the highly formulaic sestina and villanelle, this initial
THE BLUE DECODES by Cassie Lewis
After two decades-plus of quiet yet pointed observations in both Australia and the United States, THE BLUE DECODES is poetry by a woman speaking for herself and just as importantly about her generation, a generation whose ambitions and emotions have become very fractured and fragmented. Yet, as Cassie Lewis advises throughout her work, all that optimistic
SELECTED POEMS by Evan Jones
Evan Jones is a notable senior Australian poet whose underrated status deserves to be rectified. This volume contains a generous selection of his published work, spanning more than half a century. Marked by clarity, formal versatility and technical command, Jones’ poetry celebrates family, love, friendship, the ordinary and extraordinary in daily living – and does
EXHUMED by Cassandra Atherton
Unpredictable and boisterously entertaining, Cassandra Atherton’s EXHUMED is a collection of interconnected prose poems exploring the reanimation of canonical texts against a backdrop of popular culture references. Atherton’ s appeals to humour noir and the politicisation of the poet’s private spaces make for an exhilarating and intoxicating read. EXHUMED by Cassandra Atherton – $21.95 This book
A VICIOUS EXAMPLE: SYDNEY 1934 1392k1 – 1811 1682k2 AND OTHER POEMS by Michael Aiken
The nature of Sydney and the nature in Sydney, these are the foundations for much of Michael Aiken’s plain-speaking poetry, a verse that can be spare or lush as the city itself or as the city requires. Michael Aiken’s poems are minimalist in style and expansive in scope. He has the ability to infuse a poem with menace
FREE WILL AND THE CLOUDS by Rob Wilson
Unaligned with any of Australian poetry’s factions, yet well aware of his audience, Rob Wilson enjoys writing his risk-taking, for-the-hell-of-it poetry. In an era of often overly-informative maximalism, Rob Wilson is succinct and measured − half-turned towards the world while auguring some newly burgeoning creation. Within the cathedral of Modernism, these poems are constructed like little
IT COMES FROM ALL DIRECTIONS by Rae Desmond Jones
Steel worker, jackhammer labourer, crane dogman, student, employment bureaucrat, high school teacher, community activist, local government councillor and ultimately Mayor of Ashfield, Rae Desmond Jones (1941-2017) had a life parallel to poetry like very few in Australia. He may write in a realist tradition but one very much on his terms. This volume features previously
BOOM by Liam Ferney
Scourge of Brisbane’s poetasters (indeed of all that breed) Liam Ferney (1979-) is an irascible risk-taking entertainer who earns his living as a PR flak, who from the age of 14 was involved in poetry readings and festivals. BOOM captures the fabulous combative nature of Ferney’s experience & poetry; this is language to be confronted
