My Nine Favourite Australian Books
(In Poetic Order)
written by: Michael J Leach
1. Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’
2. Lisa Bellear’s ‘Aboriginal Country’
3. Judith Beveridge’s ‘Sun Music’
4. Peter Goldsworthy’s ‘Maestro’
5. Tricia Dearborn’s ‘Autobiochemistry’
6. Ian Gibbins’ ‘Urban Biology’
7. Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’
8. Michelle Johnston’s ‘Dustfall’
9. Leah Kaminsky’s ‘We’re All Going to Die’.
Michael J. Leach (@m_jleach) is an Australian poet, critic and academic. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as Poetry d’Amour 2022: Love Poems (WA Poets Incorporated, 2022), and his two poetry books: the chapbook Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020) and the full-length collection Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Michael has won the UniSA Mental Health and Wellbeing Poetry Competition (2015), received a commendation in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2021), and jointly won the poetry category of the Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition (2022). He lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country and acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land.
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