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Time Is a Mother
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
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The Jaguar
A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets
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Rose Interior: New Poems
The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we must all answer for
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Cartwarra or What?: Selected Poems and Short Stories
Alf Taylor's stories and poems offer a vivid picture of the care, kindness and gentleness of Aboriginal families and communities and their enduring strength, resourcefulness and power.
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King.
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Birds (60th Anniversary Edition)
The poems in Birds commemorate Judith's love of birds, while on a deeper level exploring a gamut of very human experiences, from the delightful, to the humorous, to the sorrowful.
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Acanthus
New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.
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Continuous Creation
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureate
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The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005)
This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and memorising poetry
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And to Ecstasy
In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matching it with the belief we are also spirit beings.
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At the Altar of Touch
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
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Best of Australian Poems 2021
Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was
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Revenants
The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that the present and the past are intertwined.
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Call Us What We Carry
The breakout poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
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Poems: 1962-2020
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
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White Clouds Blue Rain
Told through a series triptychs White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail.
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Everything, All at Once
A vibrant and essential collection that celebrates the future of Australian writing
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How Decent Folk Behave
A vibrant, thought-provoking collection from the ABIA and Indie award-winning author of The Hate Race and Carrying the World.
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Memory Book
Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours shares and celebrates the fascinating life stories of everyday Australians.
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Human Looking
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender
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Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados.
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Take Care
The poems in Take Care explore what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness
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How to Make a Basket
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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Sweet River
'In Sweet River's wash of water and words, there's an implicit message. Humanity might be the great polluter, the river's enemy, but it will all live on, preserved in language OE But there's always the sweet river, pristine and...
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Tomorrow Is Beautiful
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The Inheritors
The inheritors are those who will suffer the ravages of climate change be they human, creature or plant. Compassion, anger and prophecy regarding the fate of our planet. These poems are reportage from the precipice.
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Beneath the Tree Line
Jane Gibian's poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life - whether in nature or in social routines
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Purgatorio Re-placed
Purgatorio Re-placed is a re-write of Dante's Purgatorio, the second book of his Divine Comedy.
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Vociferate
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A Fire in My Head
A collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak.
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Slug
The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award winning author of Nobody Told Me
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Dog Songs: Poems
In her collection Dog Songs, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates of the unique bond between human and dog. Published for the first time in the UK, this is an essential gift for dog lovers of all ages.
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Whisper Songs
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
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Trigger Warning
From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.
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Dropbear
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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I Said the Sea was Folded: Poems
Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer and screenwriter. These poems announce a new phase in his work. They are startling in their simplicity and their honesty
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
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Labour and Other Poems
This book is about relations and their ambiguous intimacies
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The Open
Van's poetry is an ongoing decolonial passage. Each opened space and time takes to task the one just left, then comes home to the poet, her self-reflexive though pointing to her own entanglement. She's inside and outside these...
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Homecoming
Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This...
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Living on Stolen Land
Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present'. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a highly...
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Late Murrumbidgee Poems
'My real life experiences are here - expressed guts and all - far more honestly than before, and hang the consequences in the open.' - John Mukky Burke
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Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt
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A Thousand Crimson Blooms
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet.
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Nganajungu Yagu
An award-winning work of poetry from Charmaine Papertalk Green.
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Carrying the World
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship with words.
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Comfort Food
Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection. Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food...
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The Lost Arabs
Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.
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Inside My Mother
In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but in other ways a magical place 'beyond...
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Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the...
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Towards the End
This collection of poems presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection may be described as a fusion of social satire, gothic dystopia...
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Sight Lines
Sze, in drawing connections between the pastoral and the catastrophic, speaks to a contemporary condition in which we are constantly fragmented and made whole again as we are presented with a saturation of narratives. In his...
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Ariel
Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.
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DKMH
Meditative, confronting, universally relatable. A collection of poetry written by spoken word poet and podcaster, Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery.
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Rumi: Poems
This volume draws on a wide variety of translations - from the early 20th century to the present - of Rumi's deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
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A Thousand Mornings
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates morning, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
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100 Poems
A singular, accessible selection of Heaney's work, for new and younger readers and for schools.
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Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly
A collection of more than 300 of Paul Kelly's favourite poems.
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Collected Poems
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.
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Hera Lindsay Bird
This impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. With themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is,...
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Milk and Honey
milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity.
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The Future Keepers
The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies.
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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Empirical
The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction.
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Green Shadows and other poems
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life.
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Blakwork
Alison Whittaker's Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.
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Evolution
A searing new collection of Eileen Myles' acclaimed poetry.
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False Claims of Colonial Thieves
From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tête-à-tête that is powerful, thought provoking, and challenges what we think we know about our country, colonisation, and how we...
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An Open Book
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