Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more
The Agonist by Shastra Deo
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In its wildness, originality and vitality, this collection announces a distinctive new poetic voice. Like the agonist that binds to a receptor to start a chemical response, these poems conduct experiments with the poetics of attachment, spark and charge. Found poetries adjoin explorations of the limits ...Show more
Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I also saw those spirit dogs and poetry travelled with me like rivers I didn't ever eat alone 'Goan Fish Curry' Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places an ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
Thirty Australian Poets by Felicity Plunkett
$27.95 AUD
Category: 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
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts by Jorie Graham
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Ser.
"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. He ...Show more
Letters To a Young Poet by RILKE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, for which he had little inclination. Touche ...Show more
Leftovers by Cassandra Atherton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Atherton’s treatment of the prose poem in Leftovers creates a synæsthesia-like experience. Her inventive regard of ordinary things triggers a breadth of sensations and memories, blurring in and out of her real world and her other ‘real’ world of literary fiction.
Entries by Prithvi Varatharajan
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Travel. Philosophy. "The writing that follows arose from states of joy, anguish, ambivalence and contemplation. The poems come from a period of ten years, while other poetic, essayistic and diaristic pieces were produced with intensity over a shorter duration. Not long ago w ...Show more
Late Murrumbidgee Poems by John Mukky Burke
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Indigenous Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "It is twenty years since Night Song and Other Poems was published. That was a poetic recording of my journey from childhood, through adolescence, marriage and a return to Australia from twelve years in Aotearoa New Zealand. The foci in t ...Show more
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the ALS Gold Medal 2020. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2020. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Women's Studies, Native Australian Studies. Forty years ago, letters, words and feelings flowed between a teenage daughter and her mother. Letters written by that teenage d ...Show more