THAT'S NO MOON

Star Wars fans amongst you will recall the moment in Star Wars Episode IV when Luke, Han and Obi-Wan realise they're approaching the Death Star.

Luke: He's headed for that small moon.
Ben: That's no moon. It's a space station.
Han: It's too big to be a space station.
Luke: I have a very bad feeling about this.

So too it must have been for John Tranter when he first laid eyes on Australian Poetry Since 1788, edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray. John Tranter: The Gray and Lehmann Death Star.

• Peter Minter notes the neglect of aboriginal poetry
• Rochford St Review gives a round-up of reviews – with an interesting comment from Laurie Duggan

John Tranter as Obi-Wan... it's possible, and why not! Anyway all this Death Star talk leads inevitably to Eddie Izzard's Death Star canteen skit.

Three ewok moon t-shirt via Geekologie.

MEANWHILE, ON TATOOINE

• Gina Rinehart reminds us that poetry is a vehicle for revolution and change with her rousing verses inspired by the travails of a magnate.

• John B. Fairfax a published poet

HAPPY VALENTINES

After all that poetry by CEOs and magnates you'll need some Love Poetry and a unicorn chaser.

• Love Poetry - ABC Radio National
• Flarf unicorn chaser – an oldie but a goodie, cause we love you.

HATCHES

• Southerly: A Handful of Sand: Words to the frontline. This groundbreaking Indigenous issue of Southerly is out now.
• Jacket2: ‘Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia’
• Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Co-Feature
• Ken Bolton’s Four Poems