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Timeless, jazzy optimism
by Stephen Lawrence The possibilities of human movement sends my mind on a flight into the wordless; my mind’s winged motion upward and soaring - ‘Ode to a Gymnast’ Bronwyn...
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The luxurious image
Sarah Perrier In the notes to Flight Animals, Bronwyn Lea informs her readers that the term is used to indicate not only those animals that can fly, but also those animals that, when confronted with...
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Island poetry review
by Judith Beveridge Bronwyn Lea’s first collection Flight Animals is an extremely assured and accomplished volume. It’s full of finely wrought poems fusing together both delicacy and potency. Many of...
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Elsewhere with equipoise
by alan gould The quality in the art of Bronwyn Lea that I would most like to highlight is what I will call its equipoise. It is a quality to be found throughout this, her exquisitely well-wrought...
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Pulping our poetry
by Rosemary Neil It took Alan Wearne 13 years to write his verse novel, The Lovemakers, which explored “all the great, sexy things” (love, betrayal, home renovation) about life in the suburbs. In 2002,...
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Poetic intimacies to be shared
by Geoffrey Lehmann Why do people write poetry? Unlike Damien Hirst, who auctions artworks fabricated in his workshops for millions of pounds, poets get little money from their poetry. Nor is there...
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Fine connections in touching lines
by Geoff Page It’s been seven years since Bronwyn Lea’s remarkable first book of poetry, Flight Animals. Now, at last, we have its successor, The Other Way Out: New Poems. The initial collection was...
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Silence that rings
by Lyn McCredden These are witty, sometimes boisterous and meditative poems. There is a consistency of craft but an intriguing variety, and perhaps even contradictoriness, to their desires. Each poem...
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Southerly review of poetry
by petra white The Other Way Out is Bronwyn Lea’s second book of poems; the first, Flight Animals, appeared in 2001 to much acclaim. Flight Animals established Lea’s particular quality of lightness and...
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Escape artist
by maria takolander It is a tribute to the quality and readability of Bronwyn Lea’s poetry that a selection of her work forms the second volume in the new George Braziller series (edited by Paul Kane),...
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