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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways, 'where silent graffiti haunts the/ midday breeze where spring/ rain cuts through the sun and/ a rottweiler sleeps outside the/ doors of the supermarket'. These Australian scenes are set against their various European counterparts, with rhapsodies on the Parisian banlieues during Advent and Lent, to a series of Venetian 'postcards', and list-poems set in Barcelona. The poems describe the suburban landscape in a remarkably clear way, finding grace in those parts of them that are often overlooked or derided. Lachlan Brown was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize and is a recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways. Brown is at Charles Sturt, Wagga Wagga. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch. Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Read the full article in the The New York Times. In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but in other ways a magical place 'beyond the imagination', populated by symbolic presences and scenes of ritual and commemoration. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The narrator of the lead story in this collection occupies an 'unclaimed terrain', as do many of Ajay Navaria's characters. Journeying from a Dantewada village in India's east to the town of Nagpur and from there to Mumbai, the Byronic protagonist is raped, works as a masseur and then as a gigolo even while pursuing his education. The city teaches him the many meanings of labour, and he is freed if ultimately destroyed by its infinite possibilities for self-invention.As complex as they are political, Navaria's characters ranging from a brahmin labourer to a dalit male prostitute are neither black nor white, neither clearly good nor evil. They inhabit a grey zone; they linger in the transitional space between past object and future subject, between caste and democracy.Unclaimed Terrain represents Giramondo's commitment to South Asian literature and to writing which explores social difference and inequality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Zara Hagopian is size 22. She has a secret crush on the hottest boy in school, Pablo Fernandez, who has a skinny girlfriend named Holly. Zara hangs out with her best friends Carmelina and Max. They go window shopping in Parramatta and drink hot chocolate in Stockland Mall. Zara learns some of life's hard lessons when she puts these friendships on the line and goes on a diet to win the boy of her dreams.Tamar Chnorhokian is a vital new voice from Western Sydney. Her first novel speaks to young Australians with double servings of humour and heart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves experiences of imprisonment, violence and misrecognition, of disempowerment and underprivilege.Pip Adams uncategorisable new novel, part science fiction, part social realism, asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room about how we imagine new forms of justice, and how we transcend the bodies and selves we are given.Pip Adam is one of my favourite authors and Audition is my new favourite book. Hurtling through space and time with three giants who immediately gripped my heart is the place I want to be in literature. A powerful work of social commentary, a bodily exploration and a feat of imagination, all written with Adams trademark poise: this is the genre-bending book of the year. Laura Jean McKayUncanny and astoundingin parts sci-fi, absurdist, fabulist, social realistreaders may find themselves equal parts unmoored and floored by this thrilling novel. I havent stopped thinking about it. Deborah Crabtree, Books+PublishingA blend of space opera and social realism, [Audition] is a fine example of Pip Adams ingenuity and imagination. Angelique Kasmara, Aotearoa New Zealand Review of BooksAudacious, inventive and radicalA fearsome intellect underpins Pips work, and Audition is threaded with astute psychological insights, but there is also absurdism and humour, erotica and brain candy, and pop culture references aplenty. Sarah Laing, Newsroom'Her work is daring, clever, and imaginatively dazzling, but none of those back-cover words seem to fit; they are too shallow, too performative, for Adams project, which is really and here, perhaps, most pronouncedly about justice.' Jennifer Mills, Australian Book Review'Every now and then, you are lucky enough to come across a book so inventive, so thrillingly odd, that you struggle to stop thinking about it. Audition did that for me.' Sian Cain, the Guardian'The pure imagination and craft that have gone into producing this work are truly awe-inspiring.' Seth Robinson, Kill Your Darlings'Extraordinary, genre-defyingAdam expertly and surreally explores colonisation, power structures, free will and the consequences of taking up too much space. This is an astonishing novel by a brave and inventive author.' Danielle Bagnato, The Big Issue Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A nice, clean copy. ; B&W Illustrations and photographs; 9.20 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 447 pages; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir is Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. It is peppered with irreverent anecdotes and details their publication of the best-selling manual All About Grass, the purchase of decommissioned panel vans for 'urgent book deliveries', accounts of long and boozy book launches and with vivid portraits of some of the most important literary figures of the time. Novelist and critic Michael Wilding's rollicking account of the heady bohemian days in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the decline of an innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Weinberger's essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction. No field of human knowledge is too remote, no fact too fanciful for his purpose, which is to lay before you the world of these animals and the minds of the humans who imagine them. Weinberger's previous collection An Elemental Thing was named by Village Voice one of the '20 Best Books of the Year' and his book What I Heard About Iraq is regarded as an antiwar classic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Evelyn Juers's study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens's character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. It was said that she had been jilted at the altar and become a recluse, wearing her wedding dress and keeping her wedding banquet set until the day she died. But who was she? The Recluse is the story of Juers' quest to find the elusive Eliza Donnithorne, who was born in South Africa, and lived in India, England and Australia. Like House of Exile it features a cast of colourful historical characters, authors, convicts, sailors and servants, journalists and bloggers, and makes a powerful case for solitude as a dignified way of life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult FictionMichael's older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests The Incredible Here and Now is a tale of wonder, not of tragedy. Presented as a series of vignettes, in the tradition of Sandra Cisneros' Young Adult classic The House on Mango Street, it tells of Michael's coming of age in a year which brings him grief and romance; and of the place he lives in Western Sydney where 'those who don't know any better drive through the neighbourhood and lock their car doors', and those who do, flourish in its mix of cultures. Through his perceptions, the reader becomes familiar with Michael's community and its surroundings, the unsettled life of his family, the girl he meets at the local pool, the friends that gather in the McDonalds parking lot at night, the white Pontiac Trans Am that lights up his life like a magical talisman. Teacher's resources can be found here: Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell, she says. Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die. She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they dont actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigles novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.'Written in a fragmentary form reminiscent of Renata Adler, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McCunningles deadpan fiction debut, documents an unnamed young protagonists listless existence in an unnamed city. The books droll dispatches from daily life under late capitalism recall the writing of the authors New Zealand contemporaries Hera Lindsay Bird and Eamonn Marra, but Butcher-McCunnigles distinctive voice is her own. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life is a grimly funny rendering of the absurdity of life in the 2020san era in which, with nowhere to turn, the hopeless millennial turns in on herself.' Kelsey Oldham, Books+PublishingPraise for Autobiography of a Marguerite:Workbook for surviving illness, guide to familial dysfunction and an intersection between fact and fictionone of the most innovative New Zealand books published in recent years. Booknotes Books of the YearThe writing goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repairButcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards. takahe magazine Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. These poems question notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real. These poems question notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thetitle of Joanne Burns' new collection brushhighlights the reader's first experience of a poem, its initialelectricity; and the way the poem offers a surface of words that proceeds to reveal their possibilities orintentions. The central sequence 'road' is an animated display of the fashionsof being in contemporary life these poems are cheeky, playful, mercurial,surreal. Then there is the sequence called 'bluff', which excoriates twenty-firstcentury financial culture with bite, hilarity and a sense of the absurd. Thereis a section devoted to personal memoir, including a five-part poem featuring Bondibeach, and a suite of memory fragments depicting twentieth-century modes of travel. Thefinal group of poems, 'wooing the owl (or the great sleep forward)', explores the night, sleep and dreams, with their strangetones and surprising perspectives. There are 80 poems in the collection, most ofthem short, stressing the compressed pleasure that only poetry can offer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wright's previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning best-seller. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the wild energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations; and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements, drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. AntigoneKefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for theintensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small numberof poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing inits effects. Fragments is her firstcollection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of New and Selected Poems in 1998, andpossibly her last. It follows her prose work Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, 'Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leavesone almost singing with the pleasure of it'. This skill in capturing the momentis just as evident in Fragments,though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminalspaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there.And such energies! "Up, in the blue depth / a bird cut with its wings / thelight / such silk, that fell / and rose, heavily, / singing through the air.'AntigoneKefala has written four works of fiction, including The First Journey,The Island and Summer Visit, and four poetrycollections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebookand Absence: New and Selected Poems as well as the non-fiction work Sydney Journals. Born in Romania ofGreek parents, she lived in Greece and New Zealand before coming to Sydney. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "An impressive and engaging collectionthe poems are assured yetthey also bring out the often conflicted feelings that places can evoke:strangeness, beauty, loss, violence, distance, closeness, intimacy andindifference" - Judith BeveridgePowerfuldebut collection by a young Western Australian poet.ShevaunCooley was born and raised in the south west of Western Australia, but has beendrawn ceaselessly to the landscapes of North Wales, where she lived for a timein her early twenties. The poems are written out of the questions this dividedorientation raises about what constitutes a home, and how we might find ourway there. Animals have an ability to home that seems both biological andintuitive. Do we have this compass too? In the poems it is the suddenappearance of wild creatures, the shifting waters of sea or lake or river, theway light falls over the scene, which points to what we are driven to hold, butwhich ultimately evades us. Other material, from the poet's own life -including, inevitably, heartbreak - makes its way into the poems as well, sincemany of these emotions arise from a sense of being unhomed or unsettled. Thereis also a fine intelligence at work, calling in mythical resonances, thetestimony of poets and scientists, and the resources of language, to sharpenthe poet's alertness to her surroundings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. MichaelFarrell is the most adventurous andexperimental of contemporary Australianpoets, continually pushing the boundaries ofwhat poetry can do. Highlyregarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntaxand punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination,for punning and the letter in both its verbal and visual aspects gives hispoetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like 'AC/DC As First Emu Prime Minister', 'Sheep, Golden Syrup, ElizabethBishop', and 'Cate Blanchett And The Difficult Poem', I Love Poetry scrambles a landscape ofcolloquial and obscure images.Michael Farrell'scollections include living at the z, ode ode (shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award), BREAK ME OUCH, a raiders guide (published by Giramondo in 2008), thempark and thou sand. His second collection with Giramondo, Open Sesame (2011) was shortlisted forthe NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. Cocky'sJoy (Giramondo 2015) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's LiteraryAward for Poetry. He was the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Heis the author of a work of literary criticism, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 17961945(Palgrave Macmillan). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Powerfulfirst collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poetIn Flood Damages Andrada explores themesassociated with immigration and inheritance, through the figure of a young AustralianFilipina woman, whose family has been irreparably damaged by deportation,violence and illness. The wounds inflicted by these events, political andpersonal, are felt most keenly in and through her body 'your blood sings ofthe scattered histories/ that left you here' and in a dramatic use of language,influenced by the rhythms of prayer, which expresses pain and anger withpassionate intensity. A performance poet, Andrada combines the theatricalqualities of voice and image in this, her first published collection, affirmingthe female body as a site of vulnerability and power. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Debutcollection by a young Western Sydney poet, focussed on the hijab, and exploring the complexities of growing upMuslim in AustraliaMaryam Azam's poems take the mysteriesof the hijab as their object of scrutiny. Though shamed and angered by theprejudice towards Muslims the scarf arouses, Azam is also aware of its sensualityand allure, and the power and protection it offers. In 'ABrief Guide to Hijab Fashion', 'Miss Khan Takes off her Hijab' and 'Places I'vePrayed', she reflects on the rich possibilities of the scarf, the moral valuesit embodies, and the commitment required to maintain these values in a secular society.In another section, 'Wallah Bro', she examines the tensions young Muslims experiencewhen negotiating the technology of modern dating. Azam's style is simple anddirect, and informed with humour: it frames as it reveals, showing how ritual confersdignity on gestures and objects. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. GeraldMurnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarmingpoems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush'Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth year,began his writing career as a poet. After many years as a writer of fiction, heonly returned to poetry a few years ago when he moved to Goroke, in the WesternDistricts of Victoria, after the death of his wife. The forty-five poems collectedhere are in a strikingly different mode to his fiction without framing ordigressions, and with very few images, they speak openly to the reader of theauthor's memories, beliefs and experiences. They are for this reason animportant addition to his internationally recognised body of fiction, mostrecently Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction, published byGiramondo.The poems include tributes to his motherand father and to his family, and to places that have played a formative rolein his life, like Gippsland, Bendigo, Warrnambool, the Western Districts, andof course Goroke. Especially moving are his poems dedicated to authors who haveinfluenced him Lesbia Harford and Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, HenryHandel Richardson, Marcel Proust, and with particular force, theeighteenth-century poet John Clare, who gives the collection its title, revered'not only for his writings / but for his losing his reason when / he was forcedfrom the district he had wanted as his for life.'Praise for Gerald Murnane:'A strong case could be made for Murnaneas the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of.' New York Times'No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.' Sydney Morning Herald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "His is either a well-oiled universe or a chaos huddled togetherhe's a mannish character, unanimal, counterfeit, scurrilous."Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection of poems that loosely channels the dynamic of desire and inhibition in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice. The poems follows the trajectory of the ageing Aschenbach's pursuit of youth and beauty, transmuting his yearning and resistance into jittery flirtations with longing, decay and abandonment against a backdrop of political violence. The poems have an exuberant candour, formed by polyphonic allusions which enact the intersectionality of the speaker; by turns melodramatic, flirtatious, satirical. Like the tragic protagonist of Death in Venice,Cayanan's collection manifests a longing for extroversion sabotaged by its own will. It is a queer performance of anxiety and abeyance, in which the poems' speakers obsessively rehearse who they are, and what they may be if finally spoken to.'An effusive yet metaphysical performance of 'unfinishable selves'with deft use of allusion, allegory and mythic structures, Cayanan's prepossessing new book is frequently revelatory: In truth, when life happens, it happens in the fourth person.' Toby Fitch Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that the present and the past are intertwined. At the heart of the collection is a series of poems about the poets father, a Melbournian who travelled and worked in Asia as a young man, who married the poets mother in Bangkok, and whose life and death are commemorated here. The poems have settings in Asia, Australia, Hawaii, and France, which has become the authors second home. They reflect on the legacy of colonialism, not as theory, but as inherited experience. In them the poet himself may be thought of as a revenant, sharing his awareness of secret histories and local knowledge, stories of migration, the vestiges of forgotten people and places.'The reader is drawn into the palimpsests of hybrid lives and texts by Aitkens weaving of droll sentiment, unsentimental political awareness, and tender observations of passing humanity and nature.' Shirley Geok-lin Lim Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australias richest lyrical poets.Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between observation and imagination. At the heart of Potters poetry is a keen awareness of the power of transformation, which brings the celestial and the physical, the imagined and the real closer to hand.The poems hold an ear to those wandering figures who, like Icarus, search the peripheries of those adjoining worlds for a way through, but instead often fall against the clockwork of the ordinary. Surreal gardens, repetitive geometry, rooms of clouds, witches and monsters, lie not outside the natural world but directly within it, mixing poetry and quotation, dream with prose. Each poem coexist at an angle to the next, sitting as if within the net of a wider page, seeking to embody the dramatic sense of reading and of falling right through its spaces. 'Acanthus combines dream-like clarity with sudden violent metamorphosis. The title recalls a story from Vitruvius: how, in spring, an acanthus plant flowered through a childs grave; how this inspired Callimachus to carve the Corinthian capital. Potter quotes Derrida: everything will flower at the edge of a desolate tomb. Grief and remembering, flowering greenness and carved stone: the poetry is shaped by such elemental forces. The poems of childhood, of elegy, of lovers meetings and separations are everywhere subject to a mythical vision of human encounters.' Lisa Gorton Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we must all answer for. Poems from Ireland, Switzerland and Australia consider life at home in the personal sense: through the body, childhood memories and family houses, a room within a dream. Wherever home lies, its always on borrowed time. The collection turns inward to ponder human transience. Yet theres also the wider sense of our place in the world, where the natural environment requires our closer attention, especially the things we ignore or devalue when we put self at the centre. Against the background of the global pandemic and ongoing climate change, the books last section deals with experiences of home education during lockdowns, for better and for worse. It calls for more kindness not only to ourselves, but to younger generations and our future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. **Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection****Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize****Shortlisted, Prime Minsters Literary Awards, Poetry 2023**Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australias foremost poets, and this collection displays all of the urgency, energy and linguistic audacity for which Fogarty is known.At the centre of the collection is a series of poems written in India. Deeply empathetic, these poems are remarkable for the connections they draw between the social problems the poet encounters in this country poverty, class division, corruption and those he sees in contemporary Australia, besetting his own people.Other poems tell of encounters between people and between cultures, address historical and cultural issues and political events, and pay tribute to important Indigenous figures. There are intensely felt lyrics of personal experience, and poems which contemplate Fogartys own position as a poet and an activist, speaking with and for his community.Fogartys poems are bold and fierce, at times challenging and confronting, moved by strong rhythms and a remarkable freedom with language. They are an expression of the harvest lingo which gives the collection its title. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This selection collects some of the most influential and moving work of the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, who spent nearly a decade at the beginning of the century working in the newly created factories and warehouses in what has become one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world, southern China. Her poetry is full of the dramatic details of days and nights spent in physical labor, the din of the workshops, the acute dangers associated with working with heavy machinery, and the exploitation, abuse, and indignity workers are subject to given the pressures of global capitalism and a lack of oversight and protection. But the poems also speak of pleasure and of love, memories of the ancestors, the natural environment of southern China and her native Huangma Mountains in central Sichuan. Zheng writes moving portraits of her fellow workers, voices the rarely addressed issues facing women workers in particular, and paints a vivid picture of the vast population of migrant labourers, displaced from their homes and desperately seeking ways to express their experiences. She is a poet of this century, speaking to a community which consumes the products of this labour: from iPhones to Christmas decorations to the components of machinery used across the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the worlds most-trafficked mammal implicated, some say, in the evolution of coronavirus.Written in Fibonacci syllabics, it is also a reflection on Marianne Moores poem The Pangolin with its sense of natures perpetuity lost in the years since her poem was written. The final sequence Great World Atlas tracks the destructive extent of nuclear testing across the world in the 1960s. It was written for Izabela Plutas artists book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation. The sequence Tongue reflects on da Vincis 1478 painting The Benois Madonna, including the circumstances of its creation in the Pazzi conspiracy and the life of Fioretta del Cittadino perhaps the paintings model who gave birth to the child of the murdered man. Her child was taken; she was written out of the record. In other poems too, Gorton reflects on the experience of the female muse, wife, or mother. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "a deep meditation on fractured origins and the process of remaking" Eileen Chong"Brown's postcardssing crisp Guangzhou mornings and hints of dry Australian sunsets"Sam Wagan WatsonA hoarding Chinesegrandmother fills her home with objects, unable to distinguish between thevalue of things. Meanwhile, her Asian-Australian grandson travels to China forthe first time, wary of the revelations that the trip might offer, as he triesto make sense of his own Chinese and Anglo-Australian background. In Guangzhou,Kaiping, Shanghai, and Beijing, amidst the incessant construction andconsumption of twenty-first-century China, a shadowy heritage reveals andwithholds itself, while the suburbs he knows from back home are threaded into thecities he visits, forming an intricately braided Chinese-Australianinheritance. LachlanBrown grew up in Macquarie Fields in South West Sydney. His first collection, Limited Cities (Giramondo, 2012), wascommended for the Mary Gilmore Award. His poems have been shortlisted andhighly commended for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Canberra Poetry Prize,the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the BlakePoetry Prize. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'Dougans elliptical work hints at a life that hovers just beyond our comprehension; in dreams, tales, the past, in the imagination of the poet. This other world surrounds even the most domestic of the poems.' Winners citation, West Australian Premiers Poetry AwardLucy Dougans new collection draws on and is alive to the mysterious zone that Surrealist artist Paul Nash called the Monster Field: the place glimpsed from a car at speed which cannot be found again easily, and which opens up a space between the everyday and the occult as it almost slides past your eyes. Like a monster, elusive and ubiquitous a poem is a showing of what is both unsettling and familiar. In the world of everyday perception, mundane or discarded objects, fleeting scenes and inconsequential places can become unexpectedly charged with momentary significance and rise up as weird extremities in the field of the ordinary. Dougans ongoing concerns the hidden or unperceived, things out of place, the intrusion of wildness into ordered spaces, in art and film, the shifting relationship between past and present are deepened in this new collection by the disorientations of middle age: in experiences of survival, difficulty, and failure; in the presence and pressure of mystery; and in her conviction of what is sustainable in the making of things and in living. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Intense, dramatic, theatrical an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning.As its title suggests, the poems in Autumn Royals The Drama Student explore theatrical responses to life. And in particular, the staging of the emotional life. The subject, a student of experience, and a writer with an uncertain future, feels her vulnerability and dependency. Grief is paramount among her emotional responses, provoked by hauntings of violence, the death of loved ones, the failure of relationships, the disappointment of her aspirations. The great fear: I am threatened / with an exceptional ability and no means / of expression. The theatre provides those means, the expressive gestures, the subversion of typecast roles, the transformation of domestic objects into props for the performance of self, and the richness of language. Royals use of the elegiac form offers no answers, only the hope of tearing open conventional understandings of loss and insecurity, as it invokes a tradition of women poets and thinkers.Autumn Royal is unafraid to spark light in the darkest of places. Maria TakolanderRoyal's actress-protagonist, who may or may not be a care-worker, a ghost, or Valerie Solanas, is lyrically, forensically exact as she stalks the crime scene of her own exclusionAnd yet, in the periphery, a femme, florid, floral alternative keeps edging impudently into view. Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.