$24.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press / ISBN:9780734041999
This Floating World
This Floating World is presented in two parts. The first is a selection of four ‘overture’ poems that steady the reader and set the scene for the book’s title poem, a songline through the island of Ireland. The reader is guided through the songline by an omnipotent force who listens in on the intimate soliloquies of people, ghosts, birds and animals. Even the landscape and ocean have the opportunity to speak from time to time.
Both lyrical and narrative, This Floating World unfolds over a period of 24 hours and is dictated by the wind or rain. Fluid and transient in nature, it is full of rushed thoughts, forgotten histories and quiet contemplations. It is essentially a celebration of how, in some small way, we are connected to all things.
The Age Book of the Year Poetry Shortlist 2011
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 →
This Floating World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
This Floating World is presented in two parts. The first is a selection of four ‘overture’ poems that steady the reader and set the scene for the book’s title poem, a songline through the island of Ireland. The reader is... Buy or find out more →
Starlight
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
An outstanding new collection from one of Australia's most respected poets
With a celebrated fifty-year writing career behind him, John Tranter brings to Starlight the sophistication and ease of that experience, as well ... Buy or find out more →
Porch Music
$24.95 – Paperback book /
Reading a Cameron Lowe poem is a transporting experience I am taken by the unaffected rapture, Lowes slow, sly gaze, drenched as his poems are in the quality of starlight. His is a voice I look out for. - Bronwyn Lea
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Sly Mongoose
$25.00 – Paperback book / Anness Publishing
Sly Mongoose deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and time-frame from the point of view of an ordi... Buy or find out more →
