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The Odyssey Complex
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Synopsis‘David Briggs’ new collection is a midlife corollary to the Oedipus Complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards...
Old Men
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SynopsisPeter Daniels has long demonstrated his skill as a poet who can write about being a gay man, and he now applies this to the experience of becoming older, finding...
Joyriding!
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SynopsisThe poems in Joyriding! celebrate the emotional and sexual experiences of falling in love. Using a wide variety of poetic forms and structures, rhymed and unrhymed verse, the collection is...
The Forgetting and Remembering of Air
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SynopsisIn this, her third collection, Sue Hubbard meditates on art and the natural world. By going to the extreme edge of western Ireland, to a Cornish beach, to the rim...
The Good News
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Synopsis“Today you turn up five habits to quit for happiness:criticism, control, complaint, excuses, expectations, without which you’d be happy, bland and unbearable.” (from ‘Thirteen’)Is the attempt to secure happiness worth...
Letters to the Sky
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SynopsisLetters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and change. These ethereal, romantic, and feminine poems draw on the...
Luxe
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SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
A Lost Expression
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SynopsisThis is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
Drawing in Ash
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SynopsisDrawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone’s second collection from Salt. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the...
The Tempest Prognosticator
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SynopsisIn The Tempest Prognosticator leeches warn of storms, whales blunder up the Thames, beetles tap out their courtship rituals, and women fall for deft cocktail makers and melancholy apes. With...
Rubber Orchestras
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SynopsisTaking its name from a poem by American surrealist Ted Joans, Rubber Orchestras is an energetic, sensuous and intriguing collection of poems, written over a period of four years with...
Imagined Rooms
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SynopsisThe poems in Imagined Rooms invite the reader in Philip Gross’s words ‘to take it all in’. Written between the 1970s and the start of the Clinton and Blair era,...
The Night Post
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SynopsisPart of the highly-accomplished second generation of postwar Irish writers that have gone on to achieve international prominence, Sweeney has come to signify a very different Irish sensibility. Looking east...
Restricted View
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SynopsisLike craning your neck from a seat in a theatre, looking at the glittering night city from a skyscraper, or watching Woody Allen filming across the street, Restricted View, sees...
Folk Tunes
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SynopsisThe title, Folk Tunes, arises from my appointment in 2003 as a ‘Poet-in-residence’ at The National Folk Festival in Canberra. I was struck by the immediacy, the lightness, of appeal...
How To Build A City
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SynopsisHow To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the...
The Opposite of Cabbage
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SynopsisThroughout this collection, opposites collide – reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until...
The Word for Sorrow
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SynopsisWorking on Ovid’s extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy’s faded name inked on its fly-leaf...
Like This
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SynopsisLike This ranges over a number of subjects and uses a variety of forms. There are poems about the Australian outback, visual art, London suburban life and the odd –...
The Ambulance Box
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and The Aldeburgh First Collection Prize The Ambulance Box heralds the arrival of a strong and passionate new voice. Striking a fine balance...
Unexpected Weather
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SynopsisAbi Curtis makes the familiar extraordinary, and the supernatural everyday. In poems about animals and clouds, scientists and circus performers, about love and bean-pods, about bruises and myths and the...
Folklore
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SynopsisStretching from Anglo-Saxon fragments, through the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night’s Dream, the ecstatic lyrics of John Clare, elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, and contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill Folklore is...
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 Brand New Dark
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SynopsisPoetry Bank Choice. Mark Waldron’s debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss...
Down to Earth
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SynopsisJohn Wilkinson’s Down to Earth is his darkest work to date: a disturbing road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of now-ubiquitous borders, and a...
Glaciation
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SynopsisWinner Glen Dimplex Poetry Award 2008 ‘Sometimes you read collections that in their ambition and concerns alert the mind to the possibility of obtaining a new perspective on what else...
It Feels Like Disbelief
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SynopsisIt Feels Like Disbelief is a remarkable book. Its poems are contemporary and engaged, sometimes edgy, yet they exhibit a skilled formal control and a marvellous capacity to make music...
The Harbour Beyond the Movie
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007. Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant teacher at the University of...
A Fold in the Map
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SynopsisA Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one’s native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father’s final...
Andraste’s Hair
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SynopsisShort-Listed For The Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize (Forward Prizes For Poetry 2007) Bridging the divide between experimental, performance and traditional poetries the poems in Andraste’s Hair draw on...
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 Hutton Inquiry
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SynopsisThe political events of Summer 2003 is the setting for the main sequence of poems in “The Hutton Inquiry.” The poems move quickly, as scraps of information, piecing together the...
Ghost Station
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SynopsisIn this long awaited second collection, Sue Hubbard gathers together five major sequences which combine to form in a journey of love, loss and redemption. The central theme is an...
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...
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...
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...
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