Books »Poetry
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Unearthed
by Tracy Ryan
‘Once again, Ryan reveals herself as poet with both a clear sense of tradition — and a contemporary understanding of Ezra Pound’s old injunction to “Make it new!”’ Geoff Page
‘An achievement of the highest order from one of Australia’s most gifted poets.’ Marion M Campbell
‘An astonishing work; nothing less than a poetry of life and…Read more »
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Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets
by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
‘… a poetry collection that celebrates words as living forces, flowing communally between and through us.’ Rebecca Giggs
In Fremantle Poets 3, editor Scott-Patrick Mitchell brings together the work of twelve performance poets from the west coast. These poems exist in the mediated tension between the page and their other, electric, life when…Read more »
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Internal Monologues
by Danijela Kambaskovic
In this book of poems, characters from old myths speak to the reader in modern voices and in internal monologue to themselves.
Arranged in four cycles, the poems’ speakers are archetypal lovers who speak of great love gone wrong: Minerva addresses Jupiter; Iseult speaks to Tristan; Cupid longs for Psyche. Elsewhere Hamlet speaks to Ophelia; Venus…Read more »
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Two with Nature
by John Ryan with illustrations by Ellen Hickman
Ellen Hickman is an illustrator and botanical scientist who captures the natural world in layers of fine detail and colour.
John Ryan is a writer whose botanical poetry explores what he calls the inherently mysterious nature of the plant world.
Fusing art and science, words and images, Two with Nature stimulates new ways of knowing the greeRead more »
Price $35.00
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Looking out from Bashan: the republic of Og
by Mark Reid
Og is the last survivor of the giant races of the Old Testament, doomed to conquest by God’s chosen people on their way to the Promised Land. Og is not only the king of the last of his people but, as a giant amongst ordinary sized humans, he also represents the monster within.
An exciting new collection of poems linked by a strong narrative into…Read more »Price $24.95
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The Land's Meaning
by Randolph Stow edited by John Kinsella
Alternately prolific and silent, Randolph Stow won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1958 and the Patrick White Award in 1979.
In The Land’s Meaning, John Kinsella brings together selected works of one of Australia’s finest poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume’s wide ranging introduction provides a rich context for…Read more »
Price $27.95
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The Ballad of Moondyne Joe
by Niall Lucy & John Kinsella
Moondyne Joe was colonial Australia’s ultimate escape artist. His daring and repeated breakouts drove the Governor to build him a special cellRead more »
Price $27.95
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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
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things