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dotdotdash07: sacred
‘This is a local project worth keeping an eye on.’
The West Australian’I think it is the best looking magazine I have ever seen in Perth. Really professionally done, and gives that kind of synergy that comes from, you know, perfect text with perfect illustrations.’ Professor Brian Dibble
dotdotdash07 is about personal experiences…Read more »
Price $12.00
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The Argument
by Tracy Ryan
Dennis Haskell calls Tracy Ryan’s sixth volume of poetry ‘an extraordinarily sophisticated, thoughtful book’. Alison Croggon says Ryan is ‘writing at the height of her powers’.
The unknowable is Ryan’s terrain; these are poems of keen appraisal and survival demonstrating an extraordinary range and held tight by a cohesive vision. Each poem makes…Read more »
Price $24.95
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The Moving World
by Michael Heald
Robert Gray calls The Moving World ‘a remarkable and original book’ while Tim Park calls it ‘hugely ambitious and admirably modest’. In his third collection of poetry Michael Heald turns away from the imaginative world to explore that of meditative contemplation. Departing from traditional poetic composition, Heald draws on the practice of Vipassana…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Indigo volume 6
Volume 6 is edited by Mark Tredinnick, John Kinsella and Cate Kennedy.
This volume features nature writing as a form and has an essay from Nicolas Rothwell, the winning essay from the Nature Conservancy’s inaugural Prize for Nature Writing and a collection of nature writing from the Busselton Jetty Project.
Cate Kennedy has selected…Read more »
Price $25.00
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Sand
by Robert Drewe & John Kinsella
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. The Australian Way Magazine calls it ‘evocative writing’ while Bookseller+Publisher calls it ‘excellent summer beach reading’.
Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is…Read more »
Price $27.95
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The West
by John Mateer
The West represents twenty years of work by internationally renowned poet John Mateer.
Mateer’s poetry was described as ‘powerfully intense’ by The Japan Times. Antipodes said it was ‘risky and experimental’ while the Australian Book Review noted his ‘force and directness’. The Weekend Australian said Mateer was a poet ‘brilliantly…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Burning Bright
by Caroline Caddy
Award-winning poet Caroline Caddy’s latest collection is an acutely observed meditation on her encounters with the world.
The Australian Book Review said Caddy’s ‘carefully crafted poems are refreshing journeys of discovery which open up unfamiliar places, bringing them potently alive.’ Quadrant praised her ‘stunningly original descriptions’…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets
by Scott-Patrick Mitchell, J.P. Quinton & Emma Rooksby edited by Tracy Ryan
New Poets is a celebration of three distinct new voices.
Editor and award-winning poet, Tracy Ryan, said the book combines ‘three quite different works, extremely diverse in tone and approach’.
The volume showcases the considerable talents of emerging poets Emma Rooksby, J.P. Quinton and Scott-Patrick Mitchell.
In Emma Rooksby’s ‘Time…Read more »
Price $24.95
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indigo volume 5
Volume 5 is edited by Carmen Lawrence, Caroline Caddy and Ray Coffey.
This volume features an opening interview by Delys Bird with celebrated Western Australian author Tim Winton. In this in-depth interview, Winton discusses everything from the position of the novel in Australia today to the way that writing can be considered a trade. indigo volume…Read more »
Price $25.00
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Piano Hill
by Ross Bolleter
Ross Bolleter is an avant-garde composer and impresario of ruined piano players. In Piano Hill he expands his creative territory with a striking new collection of original poetry.
Meditations on the big themes of desire, love, death, and the passing of time, these are poems of celebration and regret, intimacy and broad sympathyRead more »
Price $24.95
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
