John Leonard Press
Collected Poems
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This harvesting of Vincent Buckley’s work is a long overdue moment in Australian poetry. Not only was Buckley a profoundly original, steadily changing poet; he was also an intellectual leader in our culture during the po... Buy or find out more →
White Knight With Beebox
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
This collection begins with 82 pages of new poems, then goes back through a rich selection from Peter Steele's earlier books. Working in traditional forms, he early on perfected his own stress metre, unrhymed and alterna... Buy or find out more →
Growing Up With Mr Menzies
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catalogue
Julian Croft: Ocean Island
Claire Gaskin: A Bud
Aileen Kelly: The Passion Paintings: Poems 1983-2006
Paul Magee: Cube Root of Book
Jordie Albiston: Vertigo (a cantata)
Petra White: The Incoming Tide
LK Holt: Ma... Buy or find out more →
Letters To The Tremulous Hand
$23.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
Elizabeth Campbell’s poems always seem diamonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free-verse line... Buy or find out more →
The Incoming Tide
$26.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
Thinking – joyous and sly – is the mark of these poems by Petra White.
They are odes, elegies, lyric sequences and compact near-sonnets – classical forms of a strong verbal music: a chiming among consonants and sylla... Buy or find out more →
Cube Root Of Book
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Read this sequence through from page one, or start at any point and let its circles widen, or perhaps go to the lovely, light-syllabled final lyric and discover interesting ways back. The poems themselves breach back and... Buy or find out more →
Man Wolf Man
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LK Holt’s poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns fo... Buy or find out more →
Ocean Island
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Julian Croft’s imaginative territory will be familiar to many from his earlier collections of poetry – a swathe of the NSW coast and hinterland, and its people. The intensity of the meditation of self into society and pl... Buy or find out more →
Vertigo: A Cantata
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Jordie Albiston’s poetry is known for its rhythmic power, buoying a sharp and often dark intelligence. Vertigo invokes her background in music, using elastically spaced bar-lines to punctuate its energetic cadences. And,... Buy or find out more →
A Bud
$21.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic.
The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its... Buy or find out more →
Poems Jan Owen
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Jan Owen was born in Adelaide in 1940, and lives nearby at Aldinga Beach. She has worked as a librarian, editor and teacher and has been a writer in residence in Venice, Rome, Paris and Malaysia. Awards for her poetry in... Buy or find out more →
Therapy Like Fish New And Selected Poems
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A full-length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions.
Her lines in those earlier book... Buy or find out more →
The Passion Paintings: Poems 1983-2006
$27.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
The Passion Paintings gathers – thus far – an oeuvre. Here is 'Book Three', a full-length collection of new poems by Aileen Kelly; and alongside it is most of the poetry that appeared in her earlier two books.
The en... Buy or find out more →