Lorraine Marwood

This is a poetry sort of month for me – so it gives me great (perfectly timed!!) pleasure to join the blog tour (read = party) for Lorraine Marwood’s latest collection of poetry, A Ute Picnic and Other Australian Poems. I love this line “Cat snores flip up, out onto the warm croak of day”….

I am a big fan of the verse novel. Until Stephen Herrick’s Cold Skin (2008) landed in my reviewer pile, I had never read one. I thought they were full of poetry. And while I like poetry, I never seem to have the time it requires from me. But a review is a job (although…