Moya Costello

Nicholas Jose, Sydney Review of Books and The Australian Face: Essays from the Sydney Review of Books on Harriet Chandler: 'This bold, uncompromising author …. this brilliant, beautiful book.'

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In Sydney Review of Books a general comment by Catriona Menzies-Pike: 'an incarnation of avant-garde and experimental writing.'

 

In Shanghai Daily by Xu Qin on Harriet Chandler: 'a compelling portrait.' 

 

In Rochford Street Review by Anna Couani on Harriet Chandler: 'accomplished, innovative and hybrid.'

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In Text by Julienne van Loon on Harriet Chandler.  'Costello’s portrait of Harriet Chandler’s life is a full and spirited one.' 

 

Andrew Paul Wood, NZ Listener on 'Of Ants and Black Cockatoos' in Scorchers: 'Costello's prose is  richly poetic, unforced.'

 

On Twitter, academics, editors and writers  of my Overland review of Bail's He.: Emmett Stinson,  'fantastic and fascinating piece'; Susan Lever, 'This is terrific. All your deep knowledge of Bail behind it.'; Jonathon Dunk: 'This essay is a striking study in/performance of the border between entanglement, intimacy and complicity in Australian literary history.'

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First review of pressed specimens, in Buzz by Mab Jones: 'clever, assured, and descriptively rich.'

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Mark Roberts in Rochford Street Review on pressed specimens: 'pressed specimens is an important work... it reminds us of the fragility of the ecosystem ... and the need to use whatever means at our disposal to protect it.'

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Judges' assessment of pressed specimens for the Anne Elder Award: 'an imaginative, highly conceptual work that moves each specimen into correlation and allusion. In welding science with poetry, she reveals the tentative, often imperceptible connections between us and Other, to construct meaning and attribute place.'

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Cassandra Atherton, Professor of Writing and Literature, said of pressed specimens in a Facebook/Meta discussion: '[A]mazing poet! ... [T]hat glorious book of yours is ... ekphrastic, eco-ekphrastic.'

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