This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwin’s life, is more a ‘portrait’ in verse of his inner and family life. In 1836, a twenty-six year old Charles Darwin stopped at Wentworth Falls en route to Bathurst, during the Beagle’s short stay in Australia. The walk Darwin took through the bush, along the creek to the falls, is the same one the poet now takes, with its plaque fastened to a rock: ‘Charles Darwin passed this way’. This was a young Darwin, his observations on the Beagle allowing his ideas on the origins of the species to first gestate; a highly sensitive man who loved Paradise Lost and Wordsworth’s Preludes; keenly aware that geological forces of time were ‘truly poetical’, carrying a flower painter’s colour samples around with him so that he might better describe his own collections; a man in love with the mysteries of the world, who believed that science and poetry were, after all, but a series of philosophical riddles to solve.
NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010: Poetry Shortlist
White Camel
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
This third book is a radical departure in Morgan Yasbincek’s poetry. A concentrated dialogue with the world around her, displayed in her first two books, gives way to poems that suggest aftermath and new beginning.
The... Buy or find out more →
The Striped World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her i... Buy or find out more →
The Darwin Poems
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwin’s life, is more a ‘portrait’ in verse of his inner and family life. In 1836, a twenty-six year old Charles Darwin stopped at Wentworth Falls en ... Buy or find out more →
Storm And Honey
$15.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
At the heart of Judith Beveridge’s new collection is a series of dramatic monologues and character studies centred on a young fisherman, and exploring landscape, character, narrative, imagination and the places they inte... Buy or find out more →
The Sonnet According To 'M'
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
The letter ‘m’ is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmot... Buy or find out more →
Emily Ballou
The Darwin Poems
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwin’s life, is more a ‘portrait’ in verse of his inner and family life. In 1836, a twenty-six year old Charles Darwin stopped at Wentworth Falls en ... Buy or find out more →
Aphelion
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Exiled by love, Hazel Rey moves to the historic town of old Adaminaby. A victim of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, the town now lurks, gone but not forgotten, under the waters of Lake Eucumbene. There, on the ... Buy or find out more →
One Blue Sock
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
Theo Leo is a normal boy... except he eats worms, and collects twigs and feathers, and hops around on his one blue sock. He's quite happy being different, if only his fluffy red arms didn't make him so clumsy. Then one d... Buy or find out more →
One Blue Sock
$16.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Theo Leo doesn’t want to get holes in his one blue sock . . . he hops and hops on his one bare foot all the way to school and all the way home again. Every day. Hop, hop, hop! Now in paperback.
Theo Leo is a normal boy... Buy or find out more →
