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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Black Swans Mating
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    y separately published work icon Australian Love Poems 2013 Mark Tredinnick (editor), Carlton South : Inkerman and Blunt , 2013 6312689 2013 anthology poetry

    'Love—ancient and modern, ecstatic and mundane, sacred and profane—finds its Australian voice between the covers of this book.

    'This important collection of new poems displays the richness and variety of contemporary Australian poetry. Here is larrikin love, ironic love and the understated love we inhabit.

    'Australian Love Poems 2013 is a who’s who of Australian poets. It containing 200 poems from 173 Australian poets including well known poets Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Cate Kennedy, Robert Gray, Paul Kelly and exciting new poetic talent.

    'This is how we do love, how we fall in and out of it, yearn and turn and hurt in it, and how love leads us beyond ourselves. And this is how we write love: in sonnets, of course, pantoums, villanelles, haiku, ghazals, prose poems, free verse and aubades.

    'The richness of love found in Australian Love Poems 2013 claims Australia as a poetic nation and a nation of love.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Carlton South : Inkerman and Blunt , 2013
    pg. 125-126
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    y separately published work icon Invisible Mending Mike Ladd , Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2016 9284991 2016 selected work poetry short story essay

    'Mike Ladd's new collection, Invisible Mending ranges across genres including essay, memoir, short story and poetry. Based loosely on the ideas of scarring and healing, Invisible Mending extends from family intimacies to connection and disconnection in the Australian community, environmental damage and repair. It also has an international view. Parts of it were written at an artist's residency in Malaysia and while travelling through South America.' (Publication summary)

    Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2016
    pg. 29-30
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