Books »Poetry
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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 »
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Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets
by J.P. Quinton, Emma Rooksby & Scott-Patrick Mitchell 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 »
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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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indigo volume 5
indigo journal, published by Tactile Books, is the only journal devoted solely to Western Australian writing.
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…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
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Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb (The Triffids)
by David McComb edited by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy
Brilliant songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids, David McComb, died in 1999 leaving behind a legacy of evocative music. Always more than a pop musician, McComb was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical.
Collected and published for the first time, this is the poetry McComb wrote…Read more »
Price $24.95
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indigo volume 4
indigo journal is devoted entirely to West Australian creative writing.
The short stories here were selected by award winning Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey and tell of a pool game at the Hyde Park Hotel, the inheritance of a broken limestone house in Fremantle, and how the colour of our skin protects us, or not, from inequity, injury and death…Read more »
Price $25.00
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indigo volume 3
indigo journal is the only journal devoted to West Australian creative writing.
This bumper edition, packed with short stories and poetry introduces a new section of creative non-fiction.
The opening interview with esteemed author and broadcaster Liz Byrski is followed with a passionate piece from Glyn Parry on the lost details of September…Read more »
Price $25.00
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Southern Edge
by Barbara Temperton
‘… these poems are alive in characterisation, imagery and sheer sound and they plunge on with their stories of love, madness, murder and mystery, all set in the booming sea-world of coastal south-western Western Australia and the Kimberley coast.’ — Julian Croft, Westerly v54:1
‘Verse narrative is easy to do badly and hard to do well - stories…Read more »
Price $24.95
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indigo volume 2
by Janet Blagg
indigo journal is the only journal devoted completely to West Australian creative writing.
This beautiful edition has a subtle focus on the poetry scene here in WA with the poems selected by guest editor Les Murray. This collection reflects Les Murray’s love of everything rural and Australian and yet there are moments of profound intimacy and deep…Read more »
Price $25.00
From the Catalogue
Book Launch
Fremantle Press and All Saints Literature Festival invite you to the launch of Beach Sports Car by Darlene Oxenham and Lilli and her Shadow by Laura and Pat Dudgeon.
noon, Friday 19 March 2010 at the Ampitheatre, Entry car park gate 3, All Saints College, Ewing Avenue, Bull Creek, WA 6149
RSVP: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
