Our next Recent Work Reading features Asha Naznin ('Lover, Where Are Your Eyes?') and Jennifer Allen ('Everything Feeds It').
Hope you can join us.

In the face of fire, flood and plague, environmental catastrophe and political chaos, the challenge is that poetry, in Auden’s words, ‘show an affirming flame’.
The poems in The Dancing Man are an attempt to move from grief and loss towards consolations,.

Our next Recent Work Reading features Lucy Alexander (Equations of Breath) and Adrian Caesar (The Dancing Man).
We'll also be doing this one in the new upstairs space at Smith's. Hope you can join us.

'If you take them with you, these poems, like her phone, will be that ‘wasp buttoned into a pocket’ — and best of all the only user’s manual you’ll need is your human heart.’

Kevin Brophy

Jen Webb and Jacqui Malins, 7PM 18 March, Smith's Alternative

This collection traces the period from 2019, and the catastrophe fires in Australia, through the COVID years and beyond, feeling its way into how we live in the world, and how we might reflect on the value of listening to the many voices that make up our everyday experience.

Recent Work Reading - Es Foong and Brendan Ryan
Smith's Alternative, 18 SEP, 7pm

Recent Work Reading - Es Foong and Brendan Ryan
Smith's Alternative, 18 Sep, 7pm

For over a decade, international poets Alvin Pang (Singapore) and George Szirtes (UK) have met time and againuntil the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Confined to different sides of the globe, they began to write poems back and forth in response to one another.

‘Ally Chua’s debut poetry collection reads like the crime scene of a thriller. Every page brims with tension and an unrelenting violence that will leave readers yearning for the next poem.’

Natalie Wang

For over a decade, international poets Alvin Pang (Singapore) and George Szirtes (UK) have met time and again—until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Confined to different sides of the globe, they began to write poems back and forth in response to one another.

‘Ally Chua’s debut poetry collection reads like the crime scene of a thriller. Every page brims with tension and an unrelenting violence that will leave readers yearning for the next poem.’

Natalie Wang

Our next Recent Work Reading features KA Nelson and Martin Dolan.
17th July, 7pm Smith's Alternative

Recent Work Reading- K A Nelson and Martin Dolan
7pm July 17, Smith's Alternative

Thanks to Omar Sakr for this review of Sandra Renew's Apos3s of Anarchy' sakr.substack.com/p/what-im-read…

A couple of quotes from recent reviews of my #poetry books: Chronicity (MPU, 2020) & Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Many thanks to the expert reviewers, Ian Gibbins & @MagdalenaBall, for reading & reviewing my work
TEXT Journal
compulsivereader.com/2022/12/23/a-r…

Huge thanks to @WestWords and David Ades for featuring 'In Bed With Animals' (@RecentPress) on Poets' Corner this month!
youtube.com/watch?v=LmayxU…

Grateful for the chance to feature in That Poetry Thing at Smith's Alternative this past Monday! Rachel Rayner and I read a selection of poems from my recently published Recent Work Press book, Natural Philosophies
Photo credits: Rachel Rayner and Recent Work Press
Rachel Rayner, Science Explainer #poetry #scicomm

Beejay Silcox on the ‘obscenely talented Damen O'Brien in The Guardian — yes to all this! Recent Work Press

Congrats to Damen O'Brien for making this list with Animals with Human Voices.
theguardian.com/culture/2022/d…