Time has flown, flown faster than a weaver’s shuttle, which apparently is pretty jolly fast. So now it’s time to welcome a raft of new poetry books to the Pitt Street Poetry stable for 2018. First up this year is Rainforest, a fine fourth collection from Eileen Chong, launched by Felicity Plunkett in Sydney before […]
A prolonged radio silence, you mutter. Not very poetic. Well yes and no. The latter months of 2015 saw Pitt Street Poetry not so much in the pits as more of a long, deep slough of despond. One half of the cissexual team who form the engine room of the imprint crashed into intensive care […]
The year has started splendidly with the launch of Jean Kent’s new collection The Hour of Silvered Mullet at the Newcastle Writers Festival. The weekend had a strong poetry component, kicking off with a lively panel of Jean, Melinda Smith and Jenny Blackford discussing their own and each others’ work, and then the seven-poet ‘big […]