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Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
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Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'A book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn's range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her miniatures - often small masterpieces - are built around decept ...Show more
Charlie Twirl by Alan Gould
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From the intrigue of his earlier poetry in fatalism and the mysteries of character, Alan Gould's interest has moved to music. In many of the poems in this book, the folk songs or the homages to Vaughan Williams, his enquiry is one of synaesthesia: What is it we see when we hear? In meditating this the p ...Show more
Chromatic by Paul Munden
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Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
'Munden's vivid, well realised poems range across hemispheres and centuries, embracing music, art, film, historical events, and the potent catalysts of love, illness and death. In these pages our human frailties are apprehended with both a clear eye and a tender attentiveness.' Judy Johnson 'In Chromati ...Show more
Communists Like Us by John Falzon
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Communists Like Us is a simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love? And when isn't love a fragmented but tender dial ...Show more
Dark Convicts by Judy Johnson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears' lives, both before tra ...Show more
Fingertip of the Tongue by Sarah Rice
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Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
No longer knowing which is sweeter the cherry or the feel of the word in my mouth Fingertip of the Tongue explores the texture, tone, taste, and touch of language. These are poems that feel their way through word and world with tongue and ear and fingertip. 'In Fingertip of the Tongue we find a poetry o ...Show more
Flute of Milk by Susan Fealy
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry
Flute of Milk is Susan Fealy's first full-length collection of poems after years of publication in Australian and US journals and anthologies including Poetry (Chicago), Island, Cordite, Rabbit and in the Anthology of Australian Contemporary Feminist Poetry (Hunter, 2016). The collection is in two parts ...Show more
Hush: A Fugue by Dominique Hecq
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
"Dominique Hecq writes through dulled topographies of mourning, avowing death is a "singular fear of finitude against a background of black light". Autobiographical, and sharply particular, Hush takes readers into an abyss where "grief is a caesura" and loss means "being hostage to a ghost". But this bo ...Show more
Open Door by John Kinsella
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.
Preparations for Departure by Nathanael O'Reilly
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot-what must not-be forgotten, in rich and telling detail and ...Show more
Rallying by Quinn Eades
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Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Rallying was written alongside Quinn Eades's first book, all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and before he began transitioning from female to male. A collection very much concerned with the body, and the ways in which we create and write under, around, without, and with children, this ...Show more