Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge's much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018. The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places. Though you could say that the real subject matter is the power of poetry, since the book explores how metaphor, simile, imagery, and sound can reveal connections that are imaginative, revelatory,...

Devadatta's Poems complements the sequence "Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree", published in Beveridge's earlier collection Wolf Notes, which followed the travels of Siddhattha Gotama before he became the Buddha, and portrayed the world from his disciplined and ascetic point of view. These new poems are written from the viewpoint of Devadatta, Siddhattha's jealous and ambitious cousin, who attempted...

WINNER of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2019 Judith Beveridge is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry. Sun Music is a definitive edition of her best-known and most important poems....

Storm and Honey is the new collection by prize-winning poet Judith Beveridge. It concentrates in a dramatic way both the raw emotional power and the sweetness which are the essential qualities of Beveridge's verse. Its centrepiece, 'Driftgrounds', is a series of portraits of the crew of a trawler which fishes off the coast of NSW and in estuarine waters, told...