Killernova (PB) by Omar Musa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
A collection of poetry and wood carvings that burns blindingly bright.The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in th ...Show more
Kindred (PB) by Kirli Saunders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the breaking, the shattering, the smattering of every limit ever accepted or imposed... Kindred, Kirli Saunders debut poetry collection, is a pleasure to lose yourself in. Kirli has a keen eye for observation, humour and big themes that surround Love/Connection/Loss in an engaging style, complem ...Show more
Knuckled by Fiona Wright
$24.00 AUD
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
Latecomers by SAVIGE
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige's Latecomersis a first collection of poems by one of Australia's most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent, Savige's poems show an awareness of place, of the inescapability of history, and a pers ...Show more
Leftovers by Cassandra Atherton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Atherton’s treatment of the prose poem in Leftovers creates a synæsthesia-like experience. Her inventive regard of ordinary things triggers a breadth of sensations and memories, blurring in and out of her real world and her other ‘real’ world of literary fiction.
Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land is a verse-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a ...Show more
Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the ALS Gold Medal 2020. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2020. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Women's Studies, Native Australian Studies. Forty years ago, letters, words and feelings flowed between a teenage daughter and her mother. Letters written by that teenage d ...Show more
On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren; Abby Strangward (Designed by, Cover Design by, Editor); Kyla Rain (Cover Design by, Editor); Lydia Stone (Illustrator); Ria Kealey (Editor)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
"On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinned knees and red wine, satin and switchblades, rosaries and Dionysian ecstasy. Her writings are haunted by the ghosts of girlhood, god/s, lovers and the landscape of childhood, but Warren is unflinching - s ...Show more
Poems That Do Not Sleep / قصائد لا ينام (Arabic/English) by Hassan al Nawwab
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, 'Tree Flyin ...Show more
Purgatorio Re-placed by Alex Selenitsch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
Purgatorio Re-placed is a re-write of Dante’s Purgatorio, the second book of his Divine Comedy. Using Dorothy Sayers’ translation as a guide, Alex Selenitsch keeps Dante’s overall and detail structure of 33 Cantos or chapters but rewrites the epic in modern Australian English. Dante’s medieval list of s ...Show more
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006-2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut, latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti. While many ...Show more