 | This Goes With That: Poems 1974-2001
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1903563127 | ISBN-13: 978-1903563120A poet at once serious and humorous, elegant and down to earth, Peter Goldsworthy offers rich rewards on every page of this selection, drawn from all of his books to date and including songs from his two acclaimed opera libretti, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Batavia. ...
 |  | This Healing Place: And Other Poems
Publication Date: November 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0920474845 | ISBN-13: 978-0920474846| Edition: 2nd Printing Peter Jailall, teacher, storyteller and poet, expresses great passion for the English language and for the quality of life of all Canadians. With this, his first published volume of poetry, he takes a much-deserved place alongside Canada's most significant writers of colour."Peter's poems told me stories or rather pulled me into scenes where I became the actor seeing Toronto and her people in a way new to me. Peter's empathy for people and his clear view of what deserves anger don't ...
|  | Surface to Air
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0702239135 | ISBN-13: 978-0702239137Divided into four sections, this poetry collection roams through the landscapes of Australia and Italy while navigating the interior typography of loss, memory, and desire. Drawing on the poet’s early life on Bribie Island, his time as writer-in-residence in Rome, and his current life in England, this compilation offers an unsettling vision of an ever-changing world and scrutinizes topics such as technology, consumerism, and violence with the same delicate eye as it explores the natural beauty of More...
|  | Two Poets: Fremantle Poets 2
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1921696605 | ISBN-13: 978-1921696602Written in a variety of free and traditional forms—including haiku, tanka, choka, and villanelle—this exciting collection contains the work of two award-winning Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam. Dealing with a variety of subjects relating to nature, family, and the human condition, this compilation offers insight into the state of poetry in contemporary Western Australia. ...
|  | Tongues of Ash
Publication Date: October 15, 2011Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history and spirituality.Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2011. ...
|  | Ultra Soundings
Publication Date: February 1, 2012Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra soundings... Duncan Richardson s poetry can be fanciful like this but also grounded. A speaker softens the terror of his son observing a sabre-toothed tiger in a museum. Another hears a Siren urging him to jump from Victoria Falls. Join in his discovery of ghosts in everyday highrises.. ...
|  | Two Kinds of Silence
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0702236128 | ISBN-13: 978-0702236129Bold and musical, this collection of poetry invokes the splendor of the Tasmanian coastline and high country. From a poet known for her intense and alluring examinations of the Australian landscape, this new work also concentrates on the fire and reach of imagination, the poignancy of parenthood, and the overwhelming force of adult love. ...
|  | Traditional Poems, Chants & Songs of Papua New Guinea (Papua Pocket Poets, 38)
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|  | True Thoughts (Salt Modern Poets)
Publication Date: October 2, 2008| Series: Salt Modern Poets "True Thoughts" follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection "Dear Deliria" awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. "True Thoughts" includes poems of sharply delineated streetscapes, imagined havens, distant places, encounters with friends, ideas, history, and a kind of fragmented urbanity. Brown’s writing is deftly ironic, and affects a sense of the ludicrous in the face of mortality, as the poems attempt to fathom the question ‘how to live?’ alongside the larger one ...
|  | Tributary
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0864735642 | ISBN-13: 978-0864735645Drawing upon the author's experiences as a doctor, this thoughtful collection of poems inspires calmness and personal reflection....
|  | Unanimous Night
Publication Date: June 5, 2009"Unanimous Night" is the second full-length collection from Tokyo-based poet Michael Brennan. "Unanimous Night" is an affirming elegy, a love song in recognition of an elsewhere that constantly evolves within and beyond the contemporary world--its horrors and hatreds, its fragility, uncertain truths and knowing--an elsewhere of moments and presence, of love and communion, where language and being, the living and the dead, the natural and the technological, the instant and endless converge, where longing turns through healing to the intimacy of experience, to the...
|  | This Country Anytime Anywhere
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1864651024 | ISBN-13: 978-1864651027Featuring poetry from new and emerging Aboriginal writers from the length of Australia’s Northern Territory, this compilation offers insight into the Indigenous way of life as well as into the dilemmas the community faces. Ranging from teenage poets to elders, the contributors come from diverse rural, urban, and remote backgrounds, giving their works a range of experience and depth. ...
|  | Tabapot: Poems & Designs (Papua Pocket Poets, 46)
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|  | towards a grammar of being
Publication Date: July 15, 2009In the tradition of Dickinson s letter to the world, Julie Waugh has dedicated herself to the poet s scrupulous custom of reflection and self-examination. The result is this poetic self-portrait. What towards a grammar of being delivers, in its high intelligence and tender sensuality, and in its inventive stream-of-verse episodes, is, quite simply, psychology, or what we used to call intuition. This is poetry for poetry lovers who remember when poetry had something to tell us about ourselves and about living the good life, and when reading poetry meant enjoying...
|  | Thirty Australian Poets
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0702239143 | ISBN-13: 978-0702239144In celebrating a burgeoning, vibrant, and talented group of Australian poets born after 1968, this anthology comprehensively details a groundbreaking generation that renewed and reinvigorated poetry in Australia. Exploring a 40-year body of work that has pushed the boundaries, it showcases a wonderful diversity of voices and styles, from reimagined versions of traditional forms to the experimental and avant-garde. ...
|  | The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1869404300 | ISBN-13: 978-1869404307Featuring a variety of lyrical poems, this remarkable new collection illustrates the allegorical and philosophical while still gesturing towards the ecstatic. Constantly finding new ways to express wonder, this anthology begins with a springtime “shout of green” and ends with an “invisible reader.” Traveling from Athens to Mexico and dictating the thoughts of Marco Polo and Emily Dickinson, each piece underscores the imaginary, cultivating patience, anticipation, and even regret. Fans and ...
|  | Time of the Icebergs: Poems
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1877578029 | ISBN-13: 978-1877578021Time of the Icebergs is a collection of poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present "hurtling globalization's highway" where "Google tells Google that Google saves." As poet David Eggleton says, "I think of it as a collection for browsing and discovering things: soundscapes, seascapes, landscapes, contemporary politics and contemporary people, histories, traditions, and other things besides." Titles of poems reflect the absurdities of 21st-century existence: Kate Winslet Promotes a Credit Ca...
|  | Taking Off
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0864734239 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734235"Beneath the wit, the no-nonsense honesty, the rigorous clarity of sense and the sinewy rhythmic energy of the poems' surfaces runs the craft of a sophisticated, confident and well-read poet." (The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature) ...
|  | This City
Publication Date: July 22, 2011| ISBN-10: 187757810X | ISBN-13: 978-1877578106Born in New Zealand, resident in Australia, with literary achievements in both countries, poet Jennifer Compton is truly a trans-Tasman writer. Two recent residencies in New Zealand have enabled her to spend time in her home city of Wellington, to find out new things about her homeland, to examine her roots, and to reflect on life. Two previous residencies in Italy produced another kind of reflection on time and place. This collection of poetry is the result of Compton's experiences. The book won the Kathleen G...
|  | Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Celebrating common household objects as well as fine-grained Australian landscapes, this emotionally engaged collection of poetry harvests the author’s wisdom, maturity, and interest in nearly everything. Exploring diverse topics—including a bush-entangled island, a bionic elephant, and Anne Boleyn’s ghost—each work uses a mixture of humor and gravity to scrutinize the meaning in our world, through the richly orchestrated language of one of Australia’s most significant poets. ...
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