POETS@KSP
Publications by the Poets@KSP
OF MOON AND SEA
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An anthology including a feature on 'pearls' as a poetic response to the Perth Fringe Festival art exhibition titled ‘Lust for Lustre’.
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This collection is a jewel like the pearls which form its centrepiece.
It leaves the reader feeling enriched.
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– Jan Napier
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SUDDENLY THE RAIN
Suddenly the Rain, the sixth anthology produced by the Poets at KSP, is a dazzling achievement by 14 very accomplished and very different poets.
The Perth hills landscape is a central starting point from which a huge range of ideas, cultural references and explorations, experiences and memories arrows out to target the wider world.
So much of life’s panoply, from the poignant to the humorous, is compressed into this moving and uplifting collection. The range of forms - free-verse, acrostics, experimental sonnets, haibun, haiku, prose-poetry - is just one example of the book’s diversity. Within these 70 pages, so many aspects of life are recorded, commemorated and celebrated.
It is an anthology which will delight and resonate in the reader long after a first and, no doubt, many subsequent readings.
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– Shane McCauley
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The Light Painters
'Light is nothing until it touches something' - Shey Marque.
'These poems trace their light beams upon the diversity of life. From the sacredness of insects, to family, love, animals, travel, memory, despair and hope; the KSP poets examine in fine detail those small and large moments that unite us humans. A tender and illuminating volume.'
- Dr Nandi Chinna, Independent Researcher and Poet.
'The Light Painters' is the latest collection by the Poets@KSP. It is on sale now .
Photograph 'The Blue Hour'
generously provided by David Gilliver Photography.
UNEXPECTED VISITOR is a multi-hued, dazzling, reflective, gently humorous, deeply moving collection of poems. Expected topics are treated unexpectedly, forms are purposefully and carefully used to enhance experience of the many themes and subjects gathered here: new takes on old fairy tales, a celebration of writer Katharine Susannah Prichard herself, music, nature and the epiphanies it brings, love (of course!), the wonder of being alive and the travails of life as well, the past, travel and its all important opposite: home-coming. This is a delightful potpourri of personalities and their poems, writing which is thought-provoking and entertaining in equal measure.
Shane McCauley
WOODEN SKELETONS
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Memory, which provides the continuity that gives us a sense of identity, is clearly to the fore in Wooden Skeletons. Here are mature poets whose poems arise from the intersection of memory with vivid present experience. Many of the poems involve responses to contemporary works of art, visual images that provoke sharp verbal ones. These poets associated with the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre show that depth of experience enables rather than hinders new perceptions.
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Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell AM
LIKE WATER
Life flows like water in and through these poems that reflect on moments and journeys, history and memory, generativity and legacy.
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Amanda Curtin
THISTLEDOWN
In this anthology, the Poets@KSP have added a most impressive collection of poems to their seven previous fine books. Thistledown ranges widely through the natural world, aspects of childhood, and the passions and trials of maturity. The poems are notable for their variety of structure, their delight in language and the telling phrase; and for their sense of restraint and decorum which gives so many of them their power. It’s an anthology to be read and savoured many times over.
– Ron Pretty
UNSHELLED
Here we have another delightful collection of Australian poetry worthy of comparison with any group anthology in the English speaking world. The topics are highly contemporary but never parochial or nationalistic. Of course there is a strong reflection of women’s particular interests but never to the extent that the male reader should feel excluded. The quality of the versification is frequently breathtaking and often adventurous. Unshelled is a little paradise for the poetry reader.
Professor Glen Phillips