 | 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...
 |  | 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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|  | The Well Mouth
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Showcasing a unique voice of Australian poetry, this moody unraveling of prose is an evocative exploration of spirituality and the afterlife. At the bottom of an abandoned well, a woman murdered and dumped there by corrupt police dreams the voices of people who have died but do not yet know it. Deep underground, she is silent witness and narrator of their earth poems—as she drifts in artesian streams towards the coast. One by one the newly dead replace each other in her imagination. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Water Over Stone
Publication Date: October 15, 2011Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths.Uncaged by calendars and watches, one character retreats into rainforests; A twelve-year-old shoots a rattlesnake, an octogenarian pulls vines in the public park. Wolves travel in a van inspiring dreams of the boundless rush and yap of belonging; and a whale offers solace on a balmy night on the Coral Sea.These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world. ...
|  | 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...
|  | What Can Be Proven
Publication Date: December 27, 2007Winner, Best Poetry, IP Picks 2007. Australia Council Supported Title.An ambitious, assured, mature poetic voice, Mark O Flynn sifts through memories and sensations in his exploration of life s anomalies. The title of the collection is ironic, he says. I m more interested in doubt, in what cannot be proven, in questions rather than answers, in mystery and confusion. The poems wander between the urban and the rural, childhood and adulthood, the mundane and the bizarre, holding up shards of memory to the light for inspection. Intelligent, searching, poignant,...
|  | 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 Way Back: Beyond Suburbia
Publication Date: August 7, 2005From the underbelly of the world, poems of a nurse, a trekker and a traveller."Nana's poetry is perceptive of human nature, the land she has come to love, its shores and its wildlife. Her poems say 'take a closer look, adopt a sharper angle' - an angle that gives her work strength and insight." Ron Wiseman"A collection of gentle, reflective poems that explore aspects of the poet's life, work and everyday environment. They reveal an eye for detail, as well as great sensitivity to the subject. Her use of imagery delights.." Helen Gould ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Waltzing Matilda: The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song
Publication Date: June 1, 2012An expose of two cover-ups: one the death of a swagman by a billabong; the other, a torrid affair between Banjo Paterson and his fiancee's best friend, and how the two events come together in Australia's best-loved national song. Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by their most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as their most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's history, Waltzing Matild...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Warbat: Magic Love Songs of the Tolais (Papua Pocket Poets, 23)
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|  | Weather Report
Publication Date: March 24, 2000Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to stormy seas of absence, from brilliant love-strewn sunshowers to dark moments of loss and bitter nights upon the shore. In three sections, "Backbone of the Moon", "Ghostly Dialogues" and "Still Breathing", Batchelor explores the fleeting forever trilogy of expectations, unions and releases that comprise the tidelike phases of a lover's cycle. Dedicated to respected Canadian ...
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| | Water Mirrors
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0702249351 | ISBN-13: 978-0702249358Drawing inspiration from Nicholas Powell’s enchanting and disorientating experience of moving to Helsinki, Finland, his poems are concerned with fluctuating perceptions, and with the relationship of language to meaning and aesthetics. Subjects range from the personal to the political, to art, nature, and love. Tonally, it takes in the stark, playful, tender, and ironic. This collection will dazzle and delight with its stylistic experiments and depth of insight. ...
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