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Brush by Joanne Burns
24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
The title of Joanne Burns' new collection brush highlights the reader's first experience of a poem, its initial electricity; and the way the poem offers a surface of words that proceeds to reveal their possibilities or intentions. The central sequence 'road' is an animated display of the fashions of bei ...Show more
Devadatta's Poems by Judith Beveridge
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
Devadatta's Poems complements the sequence 'Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree', published in Beveridge's earlier collection Wolf Notes, which followed the travels of Siddhattha Gotama before he became the Buddha, and portrayed the world from his disciplined and ascetic point of view. These new poems ...Show more
Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
Final Theory is a long poem told in episodes, combining two fragmentary story lines a the one following a couple as they travel through landscapes which are at different times pristine and ravaged by progress; the other portraying the sensations of a child tumbling through the ocean, encountering eviden ...Show more
Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gortons new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. It is a baroque collect ...Show more
Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
'...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My ...Show more
Knuckled by Fiona Wright
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
This is a first collection of poetry by award-winning young Sydney poet, poetry activist and editor Fiona Wright. As the title suggests, the poems in Knuckled are themselves bony and assertive, stripped down to the essential details, which appeal in their physical quality and the manner in which they ar ...Show more
PRESS RELEASE by GORTON LISA
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Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
At the heart of Lisa Gorton's first collection of poems is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria in the last years of World War II. A meditation on ambition, patience and waste, it explores the experience of first settlement through elegy, dramatic monologue, the portrait poem and the short ...Show more
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