It is nearly dark when I come to the Indian Ocean
Joyce Lee’s It is nearly dark when I come to the Indian Ocean, her collected works 1965–2003, was published by Stephen J. Williams in 2003. There is an introduction by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Lee died in 2007.
The complete book is also available on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE.
Anne Casey wrote on her social media accounts:
Absolutey thrilled to share the cover of my #new#book ‘Seang (Hungering)’ which is based on my award-winning #research and #poetry exploring the lost histories of a group of rebel girls who were daughters of #Irish#famine#immigrants to #Australia.
My eternal gratitude to the literary powerhouse Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director at Salmon Poetry for her stalwart support of my work over the past 10 years. Massive thanks to Siobhan Hutson Jeanotte for her beautiful design and painstaking production work. My heartfelt gratitude to AnthonyQuinnArtist for his stunning cover #art responding to my poetry.
There are a million people to thank… my #PhD supervisors, the late Gabrielle Carey whose encouragement never wavered, Associate Professor Bhuva Narayan and Dr Penni Russon for their wisdom and support. Poets, friends, inspirations, Eamonn Wall, Sarah Holland-Batt, Judith Beveridge, Wendy J. Dunn and so many others who are named in the book. My family always. Rory Lonergan
A virtual record of Steve Cox’s exhibition ‘The Road to Ruin’
The exhibition was held at William Mora Galleries, August to September 2025.
Tacit Art is at 314 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, in Victoria.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in creative fields, including literary analysis. Here is a review of Les Wicks’ Time Taken, a new and selected book of poems published in 2025. The review is written and presented in the form of a podcast by artificial intelligence hosts.
I intentionally left the review unedited; my only intervention was to customize the tone to be adopted by the fictional hosts and to require them to quote extensively from the actual poems.
This experiment is published with permission of Les Wicks. This AI review contains several significant errors. Quotations are sometimes wrong, interpretations sometimes wrong, and the dialogue is annoyingly repetitive; but what do we expect? It’s made by a computer algorithm.
The process yields a linguistic analysis of a text’s themes, based simply on the words and phrases used in it. I’ve included some of this analysis in the notes to the video.
—Stephen J. Williams
Book launch
Excelsior Hall,
Thirroul Community Centre
352/358 Lawrence Hargrave Drive,
Thirroul
3:00 pm Saturday, November 9 2024
Sislands invites you to join us for the launch of Robyn Rowland’s latest book by celebrated poet, John Foulcher.
Anna Jacobson has won the Young Jewish Writers Award, sponsored by The Jewish Independent, for her whimsical poetry tackling mental illness.
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