Fishing for Lightning The Spark of Poetry

Fishing for Lightning The Spark of PoetrySarah Holland Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados. Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland Batt offers a masterclass in

honour and sheer adventure

Dreading her first day at a new school

'This is the book for anyone who has ever said "I don't read fantasy"

' Flying Officer Bob CrawfordLen Waters was a Kamilaroi man

derives from ancient Greece

Sirens and a deadly magical flu invade the town

Which one are you

the origins and destiny of humanity

But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation

haunted and alone

It's about how people come together - sometimes in anger

Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest