This anthology, Here Not There, follows the successful 2010 volume, Wording the World, which published student writers from Avondale College alongside established Australian poets. Again, the result is a fresh and innovative book which gives the student poets the opportunity to see their work within a broader context and to feel included within a wider family of poets. Whether a poet is new or established, they will surely have a common goal: to give voice to human feelings and experiences. This anthology provides a forum for a sharing and exchange of ideas and approaches, for the new poets...

All These Presences publishes poems by creative writing students at Avondale College alongside work by a selection of established Australian poets. Like the three earlier volumes it follows, Wording the World (2010), Here Not There (2012) and A Way of Happening (2014), it is a unique collaboration between writers at very different stages of learning and practising their craft.

Poetry writing is an intensely personal expression of experience. The poems themselves, however, have a magical ability to move from silence into a world of unexpected...