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Poor Man's Coat - Hardanger Poems by Kit Kelen
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Ålvik - setting for the poems in this book - is a sleepy little industrial town, set between the Hardanger Fjord and its own little mountain for climbing. Behind Ålvik the serious mountains go on forever, all the length of Norway, till there's almost no more north. The town is brightly painted and decor ...Show more
Preparations for Departure by Nathanael O'Reilly
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Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot-what must not-be forgotten, in rich and telling detail and ...Show more
Snake Like Charms by Joy, Amanda
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Amanda Joys first book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. Its grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the ...Show more
Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
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The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
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Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Short Story of You and I by Richard James Allen
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From long narrative lines to fine-boned, lyrical loops and ties that bind these poems into place, Richard James Allen has taken risks with language that mark this as his most adventurous and significant book to date. --Anthony Lawrence Allen's subject is being itself, and the way our biological and ment ...Show more
The Sky Runs Right Through Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp
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'This deeply personal book is also an important historical record. Written from the heart and covering a period of time working on Christmas Island with asylum seekers until her return to Australia with an urgency to bear witness, Pettitt-Schipp's steady eye is levelled at a facade of Australian inclusi ...Show more
Walking With Camels: The story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton
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Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband's achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the ...Show more
Wildlife of Berlin by Philip Neilsen
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"Neilsen's intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious a ...Show more