TEXT Reviews April 2025

Jodi Vial reviews Shady Cosgrove’s Flight ; Philip Harvey reviews Kevin Hart’s Lands of Likeness: For a poetics of contemplation and Dark-land: Memoir of a secret childhood ; Amanda Tink reviews Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying’s Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability ; Samuel J. Cox reviews The Cambridge Companion to teh Australian Novel (edited by Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee); Jen Webb reviews David Musgrave’s Mishearing ; Carolyn Booth reviews Languages of Water (edited by Eugen Bacon); Moya Costello reviews Helen Garner’s The Season ; Denise Beckton reviews JA Cooper’s Something About Alaska and Inga Simpson’s The Thinning ; Tarla Kramer reviews Anne Elvey’s Leaf and Anne Kellas’s Ways to Say Goodbye ; Andrew Leggett reviews Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation ; Jake Sandtner reviews Tim Winton’s Juice ; and Colin Dray reviews A to Z of Creative Writing Methods (edited by Deborah Wardle, Julienne Van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray and David Carlin). Letter to the Editor: James Shea and Grant Caldwell, editors of The Routledge Global Haiku Reader .