Four Early English-Language Poets of Australia
Author: Mary Gilmore & Lesbia Harford Francis MacNamara
The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fello ... |
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Author: Jill Jones
These poems are traces and markings through continuous topographies - streets, shores, bodies. They offer an experience of language underway, of jumping into the midst. Their shifts and discontinuities open up spaces thr ... |
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Author: Jessica Le Bas
Relaxed and intimate, engaging and wise, Incognito is Jessica Le Bas's first book. Her poems have been carefully collected but are wonderfully various. Themes, characters and voices come and go as the poet moves in and o ... |
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Author: Lizz Murphy
A new poetry collection by Canberra poet, Lizz Murphy. Share in Lizz Murphy's experiences on the shop floor, her frustrations with today's supermarket society, her perspectives on advertising and take a nostalgic trip ba ... |
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Author: David Brooks
This is a deeply sensual and lyrical collection from one of the quiet masters of poetry. The Balcony is a stunning collection by one of the Southern Hemisphere's quiet masters of poetry. On first impression it is a volum ... |
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Author: Elizabeth Hodgson
This collection of poetry considers the nature of memory and its historical and emotional significance. Hodgson's use of language is matched by the imagery and structure as she explores themes of art, identity, sexuality ... |
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Author: David Brooks
The Best Australian Poetry celebrates the vibrancy and force of contemporary poetry in Australia. Guest editor David Brooks, a much admired poet in his own right, has put together a rich selection of powerful poems - ele ... |
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Author: Anthony Lawrence
THE LATEST ADDITION TO UQP'S POETRY SERIES The poems in novelist and poet Anthony Lawrence's new volume Bark explore aspects of the Australian landscape, capturing the harshness of rural life. They also meditate on the ... |
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Author: David Beach
Abandoned Novel introduces a strikingly different new voice to New Zealand poetry. These sixty decasyllabic sonnets are formally rigorous and bracingly anti-poetic. David Beach takes ideas, information and units of langu ... |
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Author: Louis Armand
Composed between 1993 and 1997, Seances is the first full-length collection of poetry from Sydney-born Prague resident Louis Armand, who is the 1997 recipient of the Max Harris award for poetry. Armand currently teaches ... |
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Author: Jamie Grant
This collection ranges from the early nineteenth century of Francis MacNamara and Charles Harpur, through the later years of C J Dennis and Henry Lawson, right up to the present day of Gig Ryan, David Malouf, Stephen McI ... |
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Author: C.K. Stead
This Collected Poems includes the work of fourteen volumes of poetry, from Stead's first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition, it reprints 22 early previously uncollected poems th ... |
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Author: Sam Sampson
Everything Talks is AUP's first collection of poetry by up-and-coming Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Organised in sections ('An Arena of Reflected Caches', 'Mirror Mirror', 'Orpheus at Whatipu', 'Frisson', 'The Dirty Monk', ... |
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Author: Katherine Liddy & Reihana Robinson Janis Freegard
This is the third book in AUP's New Poets series, which began in 1999 and has launched an oustanding range of poets. The new poets in this third volume, Janis Freegard, Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson, all have vas ... |
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Author: Chris Price
Bursting with musical elements from bells, nursery rhymes and traditional ballads to Chaplin and Einstein playing string quartets and the Tubists' Universal Brotherhood Association, The Blind Singer is a luminous perform ... |
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Author: Bob Orr
Following his very popular collection, Valparaiso, poet Bob Orr presents his new book Calypso. Orr's poems have a wistful yet forceful beauty, presenting images with depth, colour, light, and the narrative drive and cade ... |
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Selected Poems
Author: Janet Frame
Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film An Angel at My Table. Ja ... |
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Author: Sarah Holland-Batt
Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is an impressive addition to this award winning series. |
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Author: Barbara Temperton
In this collection of three long narrative poems, Temperton conjures up the highs and lows of the coastal environment to explore the effects of nature's 'Powerful forces at work' on human existence. An impressive third c ... |
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Author: Lee Knowles
What happens when people are called to follow new and unusual tracks, whether physical or in the mind? The secrets and motives behind the story are what interest Lee Knowles. Invaders of the Heart takes us to such divers ... |
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