Archive | November, 2025

Rose van Son on ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’

26 Nov

It’s always nice when you realise that someone has actually read your book – and enjoyed it! So it was lovely to find Perth based writer and poet. Ros van Son, mentioning The Office of Literary Endeavours (5 Islands Press, 2025) recently on social media. More than happy to go with “Memorable language and crafted lines by a master poet”!

The Office of Literary Endeavours is available from https://www.5islandspress.com/product-page/the-office-of-literary-endeavours-by-mark-roberts.

It is also available from Gleebooks in Sydney, Readings in Melbourne, and The Little Lost Bookshop in Katoomba .

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My shortlisted poem, ‘Theory of flight for two voices’, appears in ‘Poetry of Flight: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology’

25 Nov

Earlier this year I was excited and honoured to be short-listed for the 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize and this coming Thursday the resulting anthology, Poetry of Flight, will be launched by Zoom.

“The 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize invited poets to respond to the broad topic of ‘flight’ – and to take it in whatever direction they wished. Perhaps being in flight from something, or towards new places, experiences or elements. Perhaps knowing the ecstatic flight of emotions or the spirit, or an engagement with the feathered world of what inhabits air and branch…

The astounding stylistic and thematic range of poems in this Longlist do what powerful art always does – they offer the reader the insights, connection and joy which enable us to live our lives for the better.

This anthology has the 51 poems of the Longlist, including the winners.”

If you want to catch some of the contributors to the anthology read their poems on Thursday night you can book your Zoom place here: https://liquidamberpress. com.au/events/ where you can also purchase copies of the anthology.

 

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