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Ivor Indyk reviews 'Poems 1980-1994' by John Kinsella
Fremantle Arts Centre Press published its first collection of John Kinsella’s poetry in 1989, only eight years ago. Three years ago, his third collection, Full Fathom Five, took out the West Australian Premier’s Poetry Award. Last year, his fifth collection, The Silo, won the Adelaide Festival prize for poetry, and Kinsella was awarded a ‘Junior Keating’. The pace of publication, and of recognition, has been quickening – two collections in 1993, two more in 1995, four in 1996.
Ivor Indyk reviews 'Donatello in Wangaratta' by Peter Rose
Don Anderson’s description of Peter Rose’s previous collection as having a fin de siècle mood to it, is surely appropriate to his new collection too. There is an air of decadence to Rose’s poetry, but while this may have much larger social implications – it is the end of the century after all – the decadence seems to me to have a more definite testament to offer.
Publishing from the Provinces
This is a slightly revised version of the Boisbouvier Oration, delivered at the Melbourne Writers Festival, 4 September 2019.
Ivor Indyk reviews 'Collected Poems, 1970–1998' by John Forbes
One of the benefits of a Collected is that it places individual poems within the context of the poet’s whole oeuvre, with often dramatic consequences for their interpretation. When Leonie Kramer brought out David Campbell’s Collected Poems in 1989, more than half of the volume was made up of poems written in the last decade of the poet’s life.
The Cult of the Middlebrow |Sydney Review of Books
The critic Jonathan Jones caused something of a stir recently when he lamented, in the Guardian, how the belief in literature as a force for change was being debased in favour of the currency of popular appeal. ‘In the age of social media and ebooks, our concept of literary greatness is being blurred beyond recognition.
6 March 2015: Ivor Indyk on The Stella Prize
In one way I was relieved, as a publisher, that Giramondo didn’t have any books that were eligible for the Stella Prize this year. It wreaks havoc on what you think a literary award should be and do. This is because it covers so many genres – these include, according to the announcement accompanying the 2015 Stella longlist, ‘science writing, short stories, reportage, novels, memoir, and fiction for young adults’.
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