Ron Pretty

Poetry

Collections

• Bald Hill with Gliders. Five Islands Press 1991
• Halfway to Eden. Hale & Ironmonger 1996
• Of the Stone: New and Selected Poems. Five Islands Press 2000
• Where the Heart Is. Picaro Press 2009
• Postcards from the Centre. Profile Poetry 2010
• Grace Notes and other poems. PIcaro Press 2012
• What the Afternoon Knows. Pitt Street Poetry 2013

  As editor

• Outlook: an anthology of poems for senior students. Longman Cheshire 1992
• Anthology of the Illawarra. Five Islands Press 1994
• Cry Out! An anthology of street poetry . Five Islands Press 1996
• The Argument from Desire: the 1999 Newcastle Prize Anthology. Five Islands Press 1999
• Blue Like Tea: an anthology of poems from the Wollongong workshop. Five Islands Press 2000
• Wild About the Roof. Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2001
• Poems for all Occasions. Five Islands Press 2002
• Two Spaces of Poetry: poems from Australia & West Bengal 2006
• The Road South: an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. Kolkata: Bengal Creations 2007

  List of poems

Non-fiction

• Creating Poetry. Five Islands Press 1987, 2001
• Nicole: another chance at life.. Five Islands Press 1993
• Practical Poetics. Five Islands Press 2003

  Reviews

• John Upton in Cordite Poetry Review 'He’s on top of his craft, shrewdly observant, witty, practical rather than flashy, never tired.'
• Les Wicks in the Rochford Street Review 'there is a deep humanity in his observations and as you would expect, the deft hand of a master craftsman.'
• Geoff Page in the Canberra Times 'it’s refreshing to read a collection where the poems are direct and emotionally engaged, while still possessing the linguistic and intellectual subtlety we rightly demand of poetry.'