The Book of Remembrance
Remembering Australian poets from Sydney and New South Wales. These stories are treasured memorials. We publish them to honour a life as well as to inform community of their lives that made them prominent locally, nationally and worldwide.
Editor Adam Aitken is a Sydney-based poet and teacher. His last book was Archipelago (Vagabond Press).
Email address: AAitken@poetrysydney.org
Kerry Leves
Kerry Leves Kerry Leves was born in Balmain in 1948 to a First World War veteran. He was the author of Water Roars, Illusions Burn Vagabond Press, 2002, and other collections, and A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar (Puncher and Wattman, 2007), a book named after the revered playback singer of over five
J. S. Harry
J. S. Harry Photograph: Jann Harry (J.S. Harry) at her book launch of Not finding Wittgenstein: Peter Henry Lepus Poems, Giramondo Publishing Company, 12 June 2007. Photographed by Jenni Nixon, at Gleebooks. Jann Harry was born in Adelaide in 1939. She began writing at an early age submitting her stories
Rudi Krausmann
Rudi Krausmann I am nobody in a shallow river although I can’t offer a paradise sentences & smiles reason & bridges I do not fail to cast a tiny shadow in the snow Rudi Krausmann, from White River Hut (August 1973) Portrait of Rudi Krausman by Juno Gemes. Part of
Les Murray: Cross-Road at the Centre of the World
Les Murray: Cross-Road at the Centre of the World The last half-century has been a remarkable one for Australian literature. Some might trace many of our literary achievements back to the year 1972, the year the Literature Board of the Australian Council of the Arts (as it was then) was
Adam Aitken is a Sydney-based poet and teacher. His last book was Archipelago (Vagabond Press).
Email: AAitken@poetrysydney.org