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The President of Earth
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Synopsis The President of Earth gathers the best and most exciting of David Kennedy’s poetry from the mid-1980s onwards. Ranging from graceful, evocative lyrics and mysterious dream-like narratives through alert...
Bestiary
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Synopsis Reviews of this Book ‘These poems are both imaginative and polemical – and are impossible to deflect …’ —Dorothy Porter ‘Coral Hull has found a unique and idiosyncratic voice...
American Incident
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Synopsis ‘Composed of a scattered novella (“Patricide in C Minor”), a performance text (“Resistance”), lyric poems, anti-lyrics, verse essays, prose poems and their de-formed counterparts, short fictions, hybrids, parodies, dramatic...
A Belonging Field
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Synopsis ‘Andrew Grace leads us back into the heartland, where things still grow, where locusts tear at the edges, where “the corn outgrew us, clogging our horizon / until all...
Attempts at Being
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Synopsis Often shifting and allusive, Croggon’s poems can convey the ‘strangeness of dream’.… The ‘stubborn voice’ is restless, impatient, exploratory – attuned to bedrock reality. Her poems are often carried...
The Garden
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Synopsis “Cool, postmodern,” in the words of Kevin Hart. Armand’s first published volume of prose explores – by means of a rigorous experimentation – the relations between “psycho-geography” and “geo-psychology”;...
Effigies Against the Light
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Synopsis ‘The poems in Effigies Against the Light have the qualities of improvising with materials at hand and of formal complexity which also might distinguish cultures dispersing and re-resolving through...
Source Codes
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Synopsis Source Codes is a collection about how we represent the world to ourselves and to each other in an era when the images and words we receive are often...
Unsung
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Synopsis “Sculpture is a part of the space around it.” This statement by Katarzyna Kobro reflects Mengham’s sense of how he wants the poetic text to relate to the languages...
Rehearsal in Black
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Synopsis In a review of Paul Hoover’s work, poet and critic Gillian Conoley refers to its “appetitive inclusionary impulse,” Writing on Viridian, Mary Jo Bang commented: “There is a cool...
World
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Synopsis “World”, Maxine Chernoff’s first full-length collection of poetry in ten years, explores the borders of personal and group experience, public and private language. From brief riffs on jazz to...
Heart Print
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Synopsis A fresh collection of energetic and engaging writing. These poems focus sharply on the contemporary world, from the political to the religious, from the public arena to the deeply...
The Damage
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Synopsis The Damage: New and Selected Poems offers an up-beat selection from Milne’s emerging oeuvre. Along with excerpts from the earlier works Sheet Mettle and Bench Marks, this edition offers...
The Inland Sea
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Synopsis Reviews of this Book ‘Hill’s moving love poem is also a work of spiritual convergence, the mystic marriage of two desert traditions, the Song of Solomon and an even...
Anxiety Before Entering a Room
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Synopsis It’s the tail end of the Seventies, the severity of hypothetical Marxism has given way to the anti-humanism of punk. In a province, someone anglophobe and technophile is attempting...
Vacation of a Lifetime
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Synopsis ‘This volume gathers poems from Brady’s sequence, Liberties, with many singular works published in journals or previously uncollected. It presents the first opportunity to survey the territory of her...
Chekhov’s Mongoose
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Synopsis ‘Chekhov’s Mongoose is Tom Shapcott’s 15th collection, here are poems rich, mannered and varied, full of energy that comes from being conscious of the hourglass, and loving the pressure...
Aleatory Allegories
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Synopsis The poems gathered in Aleatory Allegories confront a world marked both by chance and by meaning – or, meaning in the chance events that play themselves out in language....
Fragmenting Body etc
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Synopsis This is a selection of poetry sequences by well-known poet and critic Douglas Barbour. Many of the sequences in Fragmenting Body etc were written in response to particular events...
Odalisque
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Synopsis Odalisque employs the lyric poem to achieve a complicated and layered narrative. It is, on the surface, the story of an L.A.P.D. bomb squad detective who falls for a...
Dr. Mephisto
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Synopsis Dr. Mephisto is in the form of a long sequence of poems. It traces Mephistopheles as he ranges freely through time and space, at times a laconic observer, at...
Deception Island
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SynopsisWilliam Logan’s poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the work...
Dear Alice
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Synopsis Tom Pow’s powerful new collection of poetry explores the imaginative legacy of a nineteenth-century lunatic asylum, the Crichton, drawing on the richly-documented history of the site. This remarkable book...
Zoo
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SynopsisZoo is Tobias Hill’s third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its ‘grand...
Los Alamos Mon Amour
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of...
The Art of Keeping Quiet
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Synopsis The Art of Keeping Quiet is the first anthology in English translation by Rodolfo Alonso, one of today’s most renowned Argentine poets. As early as 1956, Raúl Gustavo Aguirre...
Home and Variations
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SynopsisIn one way or another most of the poems in Home and Variations are about displacement. Sometimes this is literal, but more often there is another kind of displacement at...
Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair
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Synopsis Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair explores the ‘furious stillness’ of love and art. From Chinese legends to scenes from artists’ studios, these poems open apertures on twilit worlds, where the ‘elastic...
Nowhere’s Far
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Synopsis Nowhere’s Far as its title suggests is both close to the heart, immediately approachable and inhabitable, but also right out there in the world of the imagination where all...
True Thoughts
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SynopsisTrue Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection Dear Deliria published in late 2002 and awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. This new work...
Ghostly Subjects
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Synopsis In Ghostly Subjects, Maria Takolander applies her unique and unflinching gaze to the earth, relationships, the body and art, revealing the exquisite strangeness that marks the world as fair...
Friday in Jerusalem and Other Poems
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SynopsisMarco Antonio Campos’s work can be considered a response to the dialogic poetry that arose in Latin America beginning in the 1950s. The latter is characterized by radical disregard for...
Evidence of Red
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SynopsisWinner Of The 2006 Oklahoma Book Awards Evidence of Red: Prose and Poems rails against lost lands and lovers, heralds death and mad warriors, and celebrates a doomed love affair...
The Long Moment
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SynopsisKate Fagan’s The Long Moment is a gorgeous and brilliant book, a work of complex sensuousness and deep intelligence. Fagan brings to her work the microcosmically precise insights of a...
Creature
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SynopsisThese poems function as experiments in epistemology. Attentive to the ways that sensory experiences coalesce into cognition and the ways cognition remains always thoroughly sensory, these poems experiment with the...
Boudicca & Co.
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SynopsisJane Holland’s second collection, Boudicca & Co., is a provocative and vibrant exploration of women and their roles in society. The perennial themes of motherhood, love and sex jostle for...
The Trees
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SynopsisWinner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring “La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos” (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation...
The Return
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SynopsisThe Return is Eleanor Cooke's first full length collection since The Secret Files (Jonathan Cape, 1994) a book-length narrative sequence that re-told The Annunciation as part feminist myth, part circus...
Squandermania
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SynopsisDon Share’s latest collection, Squandermania, is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology. It also revives a luminous,...
Ossabaw
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SynopsisBelieving in invention as the art of finding things, David Hamilton has been concerned with finding what, in memory, in nature, in his reading, and in daily events, suggests a...
The Fraud of Good Sleep
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SynopsisThe Fraud of Good Sleep is a book of “serious humanist” poems. Theis’s poems combine a stunning, classical rigor with a passionate madness that is utterly contemporary and surprising. Charting...
How the Songs Come Down
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SynopsisRevard’s poems are more like those of Seamus Heaney than those of Paul Muldoon – more like Robert Frost than Wallace Stevens, more like Mark Twain than Henry James. They...
Brother No One
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SynopsisWritten during the George W. Bush era, the poems in Brother No One take their bearings from our surveillance society, where no action or transaction goes unnoticed. Everything, from vacation...
Double Venus
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SynopsisStructured as a series of poetic arguments, essays, and visions, Double Venus seeks a suitable language for reconciling various styles of commitment. The collection is especially concerned with facing the...
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