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1953 by Geoff Page
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
A moment in time, an Australian country town and characters to remember, all brought to life in engaging verse. 1953 is a unique verse narrative composed of monologues and verse portraits. Together, these build towards the story of an Australian town, Eurandangee, and its people on a particular summer's ...Show more
A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
Amnesia Findings by Anna Jacobson
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps - slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex - I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson's collection traces the skeins o ...Show more
Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future (which isn't what it used to be), dating apps, despair, Bonnie Tyler, Taylor Swift and the lesbian bachelorette, they are set in interstellar queer utopias, maternity wards and single beds. Jesse ...Show more
Cadaver Dog by Luke Best
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Be ...Show more
Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more
Milk Teeth by Rae White
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more
Revolving Days by David Malouf
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
Special The by David Stavanger
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
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