Sunday 3 May 2015, 2.00-5.00pm
The Provincial Hotel

T: (02) 9225 1881

The Law of Poetry – MTC Cronin

Written over a period of two decades, The Law of Poetry contains poems that pay personal tributes to ‘things’—broccoli, ducks and concrete—as well as poems that seek to physically enter the realm of abstract concepts —chance, kindness and explanations. Set out in alphabetical order—as if a dictionary of essences—each poem is titled ‘The Law of Something’, be that ‘The Law of Absolutes’, ‘The Law of the Child, Lost’ or ‘The Law of Rubber Gloves’. The reader is asked not to judge—as law stereotypically demands—but to engage with this very idiosyncratic world of the individual poet and to be injected, like the shrunken travellers in the 1966 classic, Fantastic Voyage, into the nervous system of another.
The Law of Poetry is dedicated to two eminent and groundbreaking legal thinkers, Regina Graycar and Dirk Meure.

the ascendant – Maria Zajkowski

Zajkowski’s writing has that kind of imaginative rightness that tells us something essential about ourselves and reads like something no one has ever said before. Imbued with human vulnerability, mystery, wonder and awe, the poems testify to a largeness of vision about what poetry can be and what a poet can accomplish. If it is possible that sometimes the soul just ‘appears’ then it has done so in this fine collection.
 
If you cannot attend the launch of these two titles, but would like to purchase the books, you can find  The Law of Poetry and the ascendant on the Puncher & Wattmann website.