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Ian McBryde stripped bare: "Domain is without exception the most difficult and challenging poetry collection I have ever tackled. It involved almost four years of steady research and writing. It had a profound effect on me, and caused many a night of uneasy sleep." We've got an interview with Ian plus a collection of his Slivers for your perusal.

Paul Mitchell interviews Johanna Featherstone about red rooms and toilet doors: "In Australian poetry, or my experiences with it, there is a flamboyant mix of poetry communities, ranging from a co-operative of poets, to academic poets, to performance poets. All of these groups exist as avenues for learning about poetry ..." Jo!

Liam Ferney on Billy Bragg and poetry: "One of the major challenges facing contemporary Australian artists is the challenge to contribute to the struggle against the status quo. To use art, in any form, as vehicle of critique, of ideas and of opinions. And a vehicle of hope."

Matt Hetherington pays homage to the work of anti-hero Syd Barrett: "This work is perhaps unique even by 20th century (or 'modernist') standards, and such is its strangeness -- its profound and haunting heterogeneity -- that arguably the most astonishing aspect of this music is simply that it exists at all."

Plus, Ivy Alvarez writes a postcard from Cardiff, Wales - Cymru!