| The Whispering Gallery: Art Into Poetry Publication Date: January 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 1876832851 | ISBN-13: 978-1876832858This new book contains 55 poems, each prompted by a work of art drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The art works are reproduced alongside the peoms for immediate reference and enjoyment. While Plenty: Art into Poetry is a work of beauty and distinction, critics already consider The Whispering Gallery to be an exciting successor in which the author expands and deepens his imaginative exploration of words and images. ...
| | Words of Love Publication Date: November 11, 2010Author and painter Carma Jewell shares words that are both beautiful and sad in this confessional series of poems relating to love. Each poem is coupled with artwork that speaks poignantly to the message behind the words. Words of Love is a collection of poetry that heals broken hearts and reminds people not to stop believing in true love.About the Author: Carma Jewell grew up in South Africa and now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She is working on two more poetry collections related to love.Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/titl...
| | A Wind Harp Publication Date: November 2005When leading New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen reads her work audiences are captivated not only by her accessible and wide ranging poems, but also by the drama and musicality of her performance. This strong performance is encapsulated in a new sound recording. "A Wind Harp" features the voice and lyrics of Cilla McQueen, supported by original music from Dunedin musicians, The Blue Neutrinos. The approximate running time is 45 minutes. ...
| | Wings of the Same Bird Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1921479353 | ISBN-13: 978-1921479359| Edition: 1st Wings of the Same Bird is an impressive collection grown from the mythological idea linking birds and the human world with divine realms just beyond ordinary experience.The collection was the Winner of the IP Picks 09 Best Poetry Award. The poems connect birds with the journey of the human soul after death, representing them as primeval, cosmic, legendary, as messengers of the deities, symbols of war, death and misfortune, but also as profound harbingers of strength, love and wisdom.The poetry ...
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| | Words for Trees Publication Date: January 1, 2007In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of coursecatalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks. There is music, tooawhorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is reenacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction. ...
| | The World's Fastest Flower Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0864735766 | ISBN-13: 978-0864735768In this provocative collection of poetry, the issue of mental illness is dealt with frankly through pieces that are at once confrontational and refreshing. Written with a dramatic edge that showcases the author’s background in theater, the urgency of the bloom of the world’s fastest flower—the Canadian Bunchberry Dogwood—is combined with the suspended time of the lyric poem, resulting in the introduction of a courageous and innovative new voice in poetry....
| | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Publication Date: March 21, 2011Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine tanka poets, Amelia Fielden and Kathy Kituai.This is a tanka diary, extending over one calendar year, where the two poets interact and respond to each other's reflections as the days pass.It is thus creative and personal, with many opportunities for contrast and agreement. ...
| | The Willing Eye Publication Date: May 22, 2000In these powerful poems, the nettle sting, the splinter, the milk tooth and the love bite, the acts of translation, are borderline experiences that become sacramental, while physical states-myopia, childbirth, speed, and prostration-create their own knowledge, as vital as what the eye takes in and the heart grieves over. This is a book open to the shocks and pleasures of seeing and daily life, driven by a fascination with the shifting and precarious boundaries between self and world. ...
| | With One Brush Publication Date: May 15, 2008Winner, Best First Book, IP Picks 2007. With One Brush showcases Dean s previously published and awarded work. She uses visual art as a departure point for creative exploration of experience, memory, sensation, and imagination. Her passion for art and her innate, vibrant sense of colour and texture bursts forth from the page in visually sumptuous passages. The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is a sensuously layered and intriguing meditation on the past tha...
| | Wild Bees (University of Western Australia Press New Writing) Publication Date: June 2, 2008| Series: University of Western Australia Press New Writing Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works. ...
| | The Year of Adverbs Publication Date: October 1, 2007Arriving eight years after the poet's last prize-winning offering, this collection explores the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities and alive with incidents. Traveling from New Zealand to Paris and back again, the poems trace a wedding, a birth, and several deaths, and offer revealing glimpses of Fats Waller, Eliza Bennet, Dorothy Parker, John Steinbeck, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Featuring such imagery as a horse playing an accordion, the compendium adeptly showcases the poet's verbal playfulness, dist...
| | The Worm in the Tequila Publication Date: August 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0864736207 | ISBN-13: 978-0864736208A bracing distillation of this poet's distinctive talent, these verses address everyday topics such as alcoholism, ill health, and growing old and avoid traditional poetic forms. Often the poems are tiny fragmentsembellished with asterisks, dashes, and dotted linesthat describe a brief encounter, as in "On the Bus" and "Some Last Words." ...
| | The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness Publication Date: May 1, 2005Plumbing the depths of human experience in her journey into madness, Sandy Jeffs shares her experience in this collection of poetry reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. With stark dignity and intense fear, these poems cross into a realm where nightmares wrestle with dreams, death by devouring is a way station, and the underworld becomes a tourist destination. In the midst of this darkness, Jeffs's leavening sense of humor peoples her descent with the sirens of the supermarket, a high-tech, technicolor Armageddon, and a modern Cerberus with three heads: Ke...
| | With a Smile and a Song Publication Date: July 1, 2011Adventures in light rhyming verse and matters grammatical.This book contains mostly light rhyming verse, but there is also some equally lighthearted prose. The prose consists mostly of comments on what the author feels is a misuse of the English language; for example, our present-day reluctance to use commas before conjunctions such as ‘and’ and ‘but’, even when a pause is obviously needed.With the verse, like Ogden Nash, whom he greatly admires, he is not afraid to modify, even mangle, words to fit in with his rhyming scheme. Many of...
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| | The Word Went Round Publication Date: July 2006Powerful historical poems about nineteenth-century Irish emigration to New Zealand, the colonial wars, Von Tempsky and Te Kooti, moving elegies for poet/painter Joanna Margaret Paul, the artist Reiko Kunimatsu and the poet's late father, love poems, and meditations on the nature of spiritual existence in the intellectual pressure-cooker of the twenty-first century. Howard's poems are accompanied by a selection of haunting images by the painter Garry Currin, produced to accompany the long title-poem which is the central feature of the book. ...
| | Wild Publication Date: April 1, 2004The poems in this sixth collection from a celebrated poet explore the nature of the unknown and the uncultivated, from the oceans and the bush to the emotional realities of the distant past and powerful passion. Travel anecdotes from England link these Antipodean landscapes to family stories and describe the changing shape of relationships. These verses reveal the paradox of the urban and civilized world through a mature and polished language. ...
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| | Whirling (Oxford Poets) Publication Date: July 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0192880810 | ISBN-13: 978-0192880819Whirling is a new collection of poems by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who is much-traveled, and read, and admired equally in America, Britain, and his home country, Australia.He was awarded the distinguished Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award in 1995.His versatile use of language, including vivid Australian slang, is energetic and attractive, sometimes almost distracting his readers from a deeper seriousness and sadness.Whirling offers readers a glimpse into the world of a profound, wide-ranging, and eloquent poet. ...
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