Five Islands Press are proud to announce the arrival of a new book: 'POSSESSION: Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771' by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson.
This is Anna’s second book and in it she explores colonial appropriation. To quote Phillip Salom: "these poems, about the voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour between 1768 and 1771, are modern artefacts; permeable and sophisticated — they examine how language, history and time serve to sift and subvert knowing."
NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011: Poetry Shortlist
Pirate Rain
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Pirate Rain explores arbitrary power, as delivered by piratical, natural and human forces. Greed and ambition cause disasters in the poems, in complex sequences – featuring Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Out To Lunch
$24.00 – Paperback book / Puncher And Wattmann
"This is generous poetry. Out to Lunch is a book of sustenance, pleasure and tender anatomies of living. These poems have conscience and gratitude; a sense of the momentous in ordinary things. Feast and savour. Delicaci...
Possession
$19.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
Five Islands Press are proud to announce the arrival of a new book: 'POSSESSION: Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771' by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson.
This is Anna’s second book and in it she exp... Buy or find out more →
Among The Regulars
$26.95 – Paperback book / Paper Tiger
Since the mid-1990s, Andy Jackson has published poems in a wide variety of print and online journals, featured at dozens of literary events (including The Age Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian Poetry Festival, Newca... Buy or find out more →
Super Modern Prayer Book
$24.95 – Paperback book / Salt Publishing
The poems in this collection audit modern day dilemmas ranging from suburban dreaming to how to barter with the devil. Despite the horror of love and failures that this collection documents, each poem is an 'amen' to lif... Buy or find out more →
Dark Bright Doors
$19.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
This latest book by award-winning poet Jill Jones raises questions of the self, as well as the ecology of place and language. This is Jones at her most versatile and idiosyncratic, at times a little wild and dark. The po... Buy or find out more →
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010 Winners
Truth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... Buy or find out more →
Possession
$19.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
Five Islands Press are proud to announce the arrival of a new book: 'POSSESSION: Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771' by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson.
This is Anna’s second book and in it she exp... Buy or find out more →
Legacy
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A groundbreaking novel about fathers and daughters, the history we can't change and the future that we can.
Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her ... Buy or find out more →
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem 1919-1939
$65.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency f... Buy or find out more →
