Ron Pretty 16 October 1940 – 30 June 2023 Ron Pretty was a much loved, much admired, poet, publisher and teacher, and a tireless advocate for the importance of poetry within the Australian culture. He died of pneumonia at his home in Farmborough Heights, south of Wollongong, on 30 June

1947 Willem Tibben 2023 Photograph of Willem Tibben. All rights reserved. Over several decades Willem (Bill) Tibben produced four books of poetry: Conscious Moment, Near Myths, In Search of the Simple and Suburban Veneer. Written by Danny Gardner He had wide connections to the poetry community via Kardoorair Press, Armidale

Jill McKeowen (1959 – 2022) Jean Kent Words in quotation marks are from poems in Sunday Morning, Here (Flying Islands, 2022), as is the poem below. It is reprinted with permission from Flying Islands Press.   Jill McKeowen (1959 – 2022) was a writer of poetry and essays, and a

John Egan Photograph courtesy of Ginninderra Press. All rights reserved. Brenda Eldridge, Ginninderra Press The Light The lighthouse throws warning beams, sweeps the sea with its flashes revolving like a constant planet, pulses from a distant star in galaxies of shipwreck dark. Here is danger and death. Keep well clear,

Photograph by Juno Gemes.  All rights reserved. Vale, Robert Adamson (1943 – 2022)   Devin Johnston, Flood Editions Robert Adamson (17 May 1943–16 December 2022) died today of liver cancer. He is widely recognized as one of our greatest poets, “one of Australia’s national treasures” (as John Ashbery wrote). Adamson

Antigone Kefala (1931 – 2022) Antigone Kefala was a writer of poetry, fiction and memoir. Over the last fifty years from 1973, she published five poetry collections, including The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebook, Absence and Fragments, the last won the 2017 Judith Wright Calanthe Award. She also published three