sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Save As 'Martin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what / do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' Save As works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics and a feeling for earth. Its poems are... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sea Scale Sea Scale comprises thirty new poems and a generous selection from Brook Emery's previous five volumes. From and dug my fingers in the sand, his first book, to Have Been and Are, his most recent, reviewers have noted the fluency and tactility of his... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fifteeners The sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Being Prepared Why is dress so much more than draping ourselves with the nearest piece of material we can find? And why does being dressed change us into creatures that seem so separate from the rest of nature? Being Prepared explores several ways these transformations... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Contemporary Australian Poetry The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater.A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century. Over ten years... RRP: $49.95 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bunratty Duncan Hose is from the softslang line of of the chansonnier, whose reference points range between Trefoil Island, Melbourne and Coney Island. He is the author of Rathaus and One Und Bacchus. RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added House By the River A House by the River journeys through the six years Diane Fahey lived with her mother, Patricia, as her carer, and ends at a point five years after her death. Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added New Year's Day at the Hotel Australia In the late 1930s an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young work mates to meet up on New Year's Day, in the year 2000, in the famous Long Bar of the Hotel Australia. But the reunion never took place because, while sixty years later... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Caterpillar on a Leaf Rae Desmond Jones' poetry specialises in precisely observed social and political phenomena. People and their often anti-social impulses, as acted out in tension with their social context, give his poetry the power to unsettle and disturb, while... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Embracing The Razor Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as a political fixer dismisses as out-of-date the instruments of torture in the Tower of London: John... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Towards the Equator This New & Selected Poems is a substantial and long-awaited compilation from one of Australia's most accomplished poets, a retrospective spanning more than thirty years. The New Poems section, 'Towards the Equator', represents Alex Skovron's sixth... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added George Dyungayan's Bulu Line George Dyugayan was a powerful Nyigina lawman from the Roebuck Plains (east of Broome). Over the course of a life spanning much of the twentieth century, the spirit of his late father visited him in dreams and gave him the seventeen verses of the The... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Poetry and the Trace Poetry and the Trace is a compelling collection of critical essays by poets and scholars, offering fresh and teasing reflections on the art of contemporary poetry. As the volume's title declares, poetry is enmeshed with 'the trace', Derrida's 'mark of... RRP: $59.95 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Xn Xn might be the shortest poem possible between two letters, a mathematical metaphor for poetry, shorthand for a process that takes something specific and transforms it into something more intensely itself. Jenkins' second collection begins pre-big bang,... RRP: $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ringing World This engaging collection charts a wild ride, from the language of the laboratory to the surprises of hetero-sex to the yearnings of the about-to-be-cannibalised. The writing is at times provocative and sensual, at others slyly meditative, but always... RRP: $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Terra Bravura Terra Bravura, began as short text messages sent to David Musgrave from the desert on the way to Broken Hill. He later described their poetic form thuis:'The poems are terrific. Vox clamantis in desierto. The lines are dense and staccato, with a kind of... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rawshock Using the Rorschach inkblots as metaphors, conjuring the wondrous and the monstrous in his poems, Toby Fitch brings a new vision and shape to Australian poetry. Old modes of expression, such as the mythic, the romantic, the symbolic and the surreal, are... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Certain Fathoms Bonny Cassidy's first book, Certain Fathoms, glimmers with precisely observed moments that make a strange place of the familiar. These poems speak not only to each other but to and of other writers: Eve Langley, John Berryman, JS Harry. Cassidy knits... RRP: $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sly Mongoose In Sly Mongoose the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and time-frame from the point of view of an 'ordinary punter', a... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ghost Poetry Project Ten nights. Ten haunted locations. One terrifying adventure across Australia.From a gaol cell to a lunatic asylum to a night in a haunted hearse, The Ghost Poetry Project is one poet's attempt to find a language of guts and daring. A unique exploration... RRP: $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added First Names Intensely observant, gravely acute, these poems are a true achievement. In Simon West we have a poet who knows how to weight a line, how to savour a phrase. But he also proffers the nimble wit of the title poem, and of "Faute de mieux". West is a... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Concrete Tuesday Concrete Tuesday contains two new sequences including the stunning Grace , which won the Josephine Ulrick Prize in 2008 and tells the story, backwards, of a man who loses his soul. In addition to these there are several new poems, some on the familiar... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mishearing Mishearing is a companion volume to Musgrave's 2016 vers libre collection Anatomy of Voice. In it, he details the compositional method of these poems as 'mishearings' of poems via Microsoft Word 2003's in-built speech recognition function. The... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Pocketful of Kindness Age range 8 to 11Featuring a foreword by chartered psychologist, author and yoga teacher, Suzy Reading.If you can be anything - BE KIND! A helpful guide to keep those caring and sharing vibes going strong.Dip into A Pocketful of Kindness for a motivating... RRP: $17.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Growing up with Grammar Book 2 Books one to four in this carefully researched series cover the development of the necessary grammatical knowledge, from the early years to the end of junior school in a practical and readily accessible form. These contain write-in activities.The Growing... RRP: $13.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added On this Ground Many of us gain inspiration, solace, beauty and a sense of wonder from our interactions with nature, and writers have long plumbed and explored these depths.At the same time as many of us tune in to natural landscapes, our environment is imperilled as... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Charities & Politics Charities play an outsize role in the social, cultural and economic life of the nation, delivering goods and services on which lives depend. To effectively serve their communities, charities also participate in politics: campaigning for changes to law... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Long March In 1975, as Gough Whitlam's government hurtled towards its demise, a nineteen-year-old arts student at the University of Melbourne, Kim Carr, began a long march.Raised in an avowedly blue-collar household headed by his boilermaker father, Carr eschewed... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added et al. This publication accompanies New Zealand collective et al.'s first Australian survey exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). The exhibition marks the largest presentation of the artists' work outside New Zealand since representing the... RRP: $60.00 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Our National Crisis Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first declared a national emergency in 2015, and yet communities are still taking to the streets to demand greater leadership and action, and... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Retelling Australia's Water Story Successive governments have claimed that despite (or because of) Australia's 'droughts and flooding rains', we are a world leader in water management. They have highlighted such successes as the 2004 National Water Initiative, robust water rights,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added No One Knows Their Destiny Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys but who were the real men who sailed on the infamous ship, and how did the voyage transform their lives?Art historian Tonia Eckfeld draws on a deeply personal history to tell the story of her father and... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cathy Goes to Canberra Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 'I Wonder' Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach - summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' - won him a large... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dunera Lives: Profiles The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the historyof Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these2000 men suffered through British internment in camps at Hay, Tatura and Orangeis well known. Less familiar is... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's greatest livinghistorian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about thecountry's past as The Tyranny of Distanceand Triumph of the Nomads.However, Blainey has also been a... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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