John Leonard Press is launching three new collections by David Musgrave, LK Holt & Petra White.

LK Holt

LK Holt’s poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns found images of this world into blazon.

Petra White

Petra White's first book was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize 2007. Judges' comments:

'This is a stunning first book by a poet who has bypassed the usual hallmarks of a "young writer" and emerged with a fully formed voice and startling ease of style. Petra White's book eschews the seductions of self-referentiality and language games. She is present in all her poems, but deeply integrated, her concern being to connect with others and the environment with unfailing intelligence, ironic humour, originality of image and acute observation.'

via Poets Union enews