 | Untreated: Poems by Black Writers
Publication Date: January 1, 2001This anthology of poetry brings together all the big names in Aboriginal writing and features a wide array of styles and topics. With a foreword by Kim Scott – joint winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000, for his novel Benang. Poets include Lisa Bellear, John Muk Muk Burke, Graeme Dixon, Anita Heiss, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ken Laughton, Melissa Lucashenko, Romaine Moreton, Bruce Pascoe, Boori Monty Pryor, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Alf Taylor, Pat Mamanjun Torres and Samuel Wagan Watson. ...
 |  | Villon in Millerton
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14th-century French poet François Villon stranded in the isolated and semideserted coal-mining town of Millerton; another vividly evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick; and the final one turns its focus on Samuel Marsden, the 19th-century missionary whose character is intriguingly contradictory. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Vanilla Wine
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0864734719 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734716Featuring a sequence of poems on the life of eccentric French composer Erik Satie, this collection confidently builds on the poet's earlier efforts. Still present, however, are the lush and unsettling lyrics for which Cochrane is best known as well as spare and precise language that fixes on a melancholy mood and doggedly stays with it through complex shifts of thought and imagery. ...
|  | Vanishing Point (UQP Poetry Series)
Publication Date: May 14, 2010| Series: UQP Poetry Series A surreal vision of creativity and mourning opens this collection of original poetry, returning to such human themes as desire, memory, and dreams. Exhibiting a dynamic range, the author traces the currents of eroticism and imagination, while charting the skeleton of feeling and the blood of beginnings. Using her voice as a guide through light and dark, chaos and order, the poise and passion of the pieces are striking, as they counterbalance a lyrical grace with a wild formalism. ...
|  | 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....
|  | Valence: Considering War Through Poetry and Theory
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1876756985 | ISBN-13: 978-1876756987In this remarkable annotated poem, Susan Hawthorne commits to words the horrors of war and dares to draw links between militarism, fundamentalism, and the sex industry. Shattering the conspiracy of silence, she rails against the violence of war and contemplates the link between place and the history of war that is infused into the earth. It is a work that looks at how war is generated and what keeps it going, asking important questions about what’s in it for those who go to war. This fresh examination t...
|  | Under the Coolabah Tree
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Fun, sometimes rowdy and always delightfully full of Australian colour, this collection of Australian Bush poems by Wendy Laing is sure to amuse. Ream 'em aloud if you dare to try an Aussie accent! ...
|  | 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.. ...
|  | The Unfortunate Singer
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0864734360 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734365This collection extends the themes of the poet's acclaimed debut. The poems represent acts of love for something known or something dreamed about and reflect the obsessions of the poet. ...
|  | The Victims of Lightning
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0864736223 | ISBN-13: 978-0864736222Building on previous themes and introducing some new techniques, this collection reveals a respected poet at the height of his powers. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, a bracket of songs, and complex emotions—all tempered by the use of humor. ...
|  | Valparaiso
Publication Date: September 1, 2002In this collection, Orr captures the essence of present-day Auckland and of his own rural Waikato childhood. His verse, containing a wide range of literary allusions, from Rimbaud to Pasternak to Neruda, locates the poet within a particular local and international context, and reflects such diverse settings as the Chilean coast, Waiheke Island, and Ponsonby. ...
|  | Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry
Publication Date: July 2004| ISBN-10: 1877276405 | ISBN-13: 978-1877276408The poems in this collection spiral outwards from the heart of the Octagon with its Robbie Burns statue: to pubs, student flats, the university, beaches, hilltops, the harbour and beyond. This intimate mapping features works by some of New Zealand's best-loved poets, including James K. Baxter, Ruth Dallas, Janet Frame, Cilla McQueen, J.C. Sturm and Hone Tuwhare, as well as some newer voices. ...
|  | Valley Verse: A collection of poems from Arra Warra Farm (Volume 1)
Publication Date: February 28, 2012A collections of poems inspired by the beautiful surroundings and entertaining life of Arra Warra Farm. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Views of the Hudson
Publication Date: July 15, 2009'Views of the Hudson', written during a visit to New York in 2008, explores ideas of belonging and displacement. In a flood of images from this overcrowded information-rich city it weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. Views of the Hudson shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both sacred and profane. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | The Unforgiving Poem
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|  | The Unhaunting (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Publication Date: July 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 1844713482 | ISBN-13: 978-1844713486"The unhaunting" has great variety of tone, preoccupation, style and form, ranging across countries and situations with an ear for the music of language and the harmonies and dissonances of human experience. Taylor's Collected Poems showed him as a poet of ceaseless experiment and continual relevance, and this new collection reinforces his reputation as both a consolidator and innovator. ...
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