Bodies of Light is a beautifully controlled account of a life devastated by systemic failure.

Suess does the near-impossible in these poems, which is to elegise without even a hint of histrionics, to write tenderness in the plain, deflated language of the everyday.

In the first year poets are eligible for the Stella Prize, Evelyn Araluen and Eunice Andrada’s collections shine with wisdom and beauty for the ages.

A shortlisted piece in the Fiction section of the Honi Soit Writing Competition 2021.

The complexities of writing and Western Sydney.

The discursive strategies of organised Christians.

On climate grief and fading hope.