Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2012 Poetry Shortlist
The Wing Collection: New And Selected Poems
$28.95 – Paperback book / Puncher And Wattmann
The Wing Collection presents a broad overview of the distinctive contribution Diane Fahey has made to Australian poetry over the course of thirty years. It offers extensive selections from her work on birds and insects, ... Buy or find out more →
Taller When Prone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacul... Buy or find out more →
The Simplified World
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
Like Petra White’s applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour th... Buy or find out more →
Phantom Limb
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
David Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual - with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satir... Buy or find out more →
The Argument
$24.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Dennis Haskell calls Tracy Ryan’s sixth volume of poetry ‘an extraordinarily sophisticated, thoughtful book’. Alison Croggon says Ryan is ‘writing at the height of her powers’.
The unknowable is Ryan’s terrain;... Buy or find out more →