Clare Millar
Clare Millar is the children's specialist at Readings Malvern
Review — 26 Jul 2022
Ella and the Useless Day by Meg McKinlay
No strangers to the CBCA Book of the Year Notables list, Meg McKinlay and Karen Blair are paired together for the first time with Ella and the Useless Day…
Review — 29 Jun 2022
Solomon Macaroni and the Cousin Catastrophe by Ashleigh Barton
Ashleigh Barton, author of the CBCA Notable picture book What Do You Call Your Grandma?, makes her middle grade debut with Solomon Macaroni and the Cousin Catastrophe. Solomon is…
Review — 28 Jun 2022
Exactly As I Am by Rae White
Rae White won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for their debut collection, Milk Teeth, which was also shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and commended in…
Review — 30 May 2022
Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty
I first read Lionel Fogarty’s poetry when I was at uni and I was stunned. Although I had loved poetry for a long time, I was more familiar with modern…
Review — 30 May 2022
Open your heart to Country by Jasmine Seymour
After her renowned picture books Baby Business and Cooee Mittigar, Jasmine Seymour is back with Open Your Heart to Country. This is a visually stunning picture book; Seymour’s…
Review — 1 May 2022
Root and Branch by Eda Gunaydin
Root & Branch is the debut essay collection from Eda Gunaydin, a Turkish-Australian writer and academic. Gunaydin’s essays cover a wide range of topics: class, wealth, post-colonisation, whiteness, having children…
Review — 28 Jan 2022
Revenants by Adam Aitken
2022 is going to be another incredible year for Australian poetry, with debuts, new books from established poets and out-of-print titles being reissued. I was thrilled to begin theyear with…
Blog post — 30 Nov 2021
The best of Australian poetry 2021
In 2021, we revived poetry in the Readings Monthly, which allowed me the great privilege reading so many excellent collections. 2021 has truly been an excellent year for Australian…
Review — 31 Oct 2021
White Clouds Blue Rain by Oliver Driscoll
Having released his debut poetry title I Don’t Know How That Happened just last year, Oliver Driscoll returns with his second, White Clouds Blue Rain. This is an intriguing…
Review — 3 Oct 2021
Human Looking by Andy Jackson
Andy Jackson has written several acclaimed poetry collections, and returns this year with Human Looking. Readers may be familiar with Jackson’s work through his contribution to the anthology Growing…
