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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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100 Poems
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been...
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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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Rumi
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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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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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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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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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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Ariel
Includes many of the author's best-known poems such as: 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', that were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
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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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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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The Future Keepers
The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies.
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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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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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Sea of Strangers
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books, and sets sail for a grand new adventure.
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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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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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Knuckled
The first collection of poetry by award-winning young Sydney poet, poetry activist andeditor Fiona Wright, whose work satirises the pretensions and aspirations of young Australian city-dwellers
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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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An Open Book
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young, unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text in this volume that...
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
'This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star.' Terrance Hayes Morgan Parker's highly anticipated, fierce new collection of poetry uses political and...
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