A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
Thirty Australian Poets by Felicity Plunkett
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
A landmark anthology celebrating a new generation of Australian poets. The year 1968 marked a turning point in Australian poetry, when a dynamic wave of new poets sought to revitalise a 'moribund poetic culture'. At the helm of that generation was John Tranter, who argued that there would be cycles or g ...Show more
Not Fox Nor Axe by Chloe Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
Women knit at the foot of the guillotine. Hundreds of blackbirds tumble suddenly from the sky. Red Riding Hood's grandmother speaks from the belly of the wolf. Santa Lucia offers you her eyes on a platter. These poems present a panorama, by turns historical, mythical, and modern, of horrors and absurdit ...Show more
Labour and Other Poems by Astrid Lorange
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "We find ourselves in love or out of it; in a friendship but with an enemy; under contract; inscribed by the law; giving birth; accompanied by ghosts; making pacts; in pursuit of a lost object; oriented towards new and unknown attachments. We find ourselves in a relation, ev ...Show more
Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
Towards the End presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker’s disillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic realisation that happiness and prosperity may no longer be a ...Show more
Vishvarupa by Michelle Cahill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
This is a reissue of a Five Islands Press title following the demise of the press. From the exploration of love myths to the celebration of Mumbai, from an extraordinary portrait poem like 'Sita' to the humorous eroticism of 'Parvati in Darlinghurst', the poems in Vishvarupa show a breadth of human unde ...Show more
A Trillion Tiny Awakenings by Candy Royalle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
Listen to this non-prophet, This high priestess of poetry: No more hatred, just love, We are pure love, we are pure love. And this gathering, every gathering Is sacred. Listen. Candy Royalle was a spoken word poet par excellence, presenting her words and ideas with dynamism and passion. In a short 37 ye ...Show more
Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australia’s foremost poets, and this collection ...Show more
Element - The Atomic Weight and Radius of Love by Jordie Albiston
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
*Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal* Using chemistry as an indexing trope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundations and fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties and its inherent assumption of many as yet u ...Show more
Gawimarra: Gathering by Jeanine Leane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Turbulence by Thuy On
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poetry
In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal and confessional, taken from the authors own life, these poems speak to anyone who’s ever loved and lost. Filled with short sharp burst of emotion ...Show more
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