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Super Modern Prayer Book

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 life, a source of comfort, and a prayer for protection from the woes of every day life.

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The Age Book of the Year Poetry Shortlist 2011

Super Modern Prayer Book
Susan Bradley Smith

$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
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$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
John Tranter

$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 


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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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NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011: Poetry Shortlist

Pirate Rain
Jennifer Maiden

$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 


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Andy Kissane

$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
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$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
Andy Jackson

$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
Susan Bradley Smith

$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 


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$19.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press

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