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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Kalyakoorl, Ngalak Warangka Kalyakoorl, ngalak warangka, (Forever, we sing), is a celebration of rare Noongar language, and the things we share as community. Over many years, Noongar language has been reduced to a whisper, there are currently less than 400 fluent speakers.The... RRP: $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cartwarra or what? You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar manCartwarra or what? Selected poems and stories is a compendium of Alf's works that span several literary... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off! JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and easier to keep my life at camp separate to my life at home.'FIFO Fit In or F**k Off! explores... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Memoirs from the Corner Country 'Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet she remained the epitome of femininity and strength.' - Gail Hunt, youngest... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Growing up Wiradjuri Age range 7+'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' - Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added More Than These Bones More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author's journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings the bar, the beach, the bush and sometimes, the bedroom,... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Seafaring 'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not need modern scientific proof to have validity - the role of story in Indigenous... RRP: $35.00 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added She is the Earth **Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Book of the Year****Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Indigenous Writer's Prize**She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Traditional Healers of the Central Desert Traditional Healers of the Central Desertcontains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added My Longest Round I've been fighting since the day I was born. No, I've been fighting from the time I was curled up inside my mother's belly. The day my father shot himself in the head, that's when my fight started. - Wally CarrThe life story of Australian and... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added You call it desert - we used to live there The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her lifetime partner, Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike. While spending time in the red heart of country... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Last Truck Out WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Once in Broome In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after the war kids', Sally's lifestyle was embedded in the many cultural traditions of... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Home for Bilby A Home for Bilby is an engaging picture book that takes children on a journey through the Australian outback and the habitats of the animals that live there. Join Kangaroo, Emu, Platypus, Wombat and Koala as they find a home for their new friend Bilby. A... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Man From the Sunrise Side This is the autobiography of Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, a Kwini man from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Ambrose speaks out honestly, without malice or accusation, on a number of subjects including the appropriation of rock art, the... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Boy's Life Age range 12 to 17Autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book... RRP: $19.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added rock flight A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's... RRP: $27.00 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added John Berger and Me The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the... RRP: $32.95 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mourning a Breast In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Song in the Grass Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives begun in... RRP: $27.00 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tintinnabulum Judith Beveridge's much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, though you could say that the real subject matter is the... RRP: $27.00 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Naag Mountain Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and... RRP: $27.00 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Critic Swallows Book In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Monument An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy's fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past -... RRP: $32.95 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Cyprian Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various formsFrom poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added How to Be Between How to Be Between is a memoir about female facial hair, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and negotiating identity for those visibly between gender binaries. Young women's bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial... RRP: $32.95 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Late Journals The last work by Antigone Kefala, renowned for both her poetry and her prose, one of the first writers to open Australian literature to a diversity of voices, and of the most distinctive and powerful of those voices.Late Journals completes a trilogy of... RRP: $26.95 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Acanthus New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 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. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Last Letter to a Reader Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as 'a genius on the level of Beckett'.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane's... RRP: $26.95 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 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. The poetry's engagement is first and foremost with the natural environment, and with the... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Gleaner Song Song Lin is one of China's most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous "His is either a well-oiled universe or a chaos huddled together...he's a mannish character, unanimal, counterfeit, scurrilous."Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Earth Dwellers The crags do not notice if I have come from stone or am becoming stone or am merely part of the weather.The Anthropocene what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth's history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Antipodean China Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added No Document *Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize*No Documentis an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added J.S. Harry Selected Poems When J.S. Harry died in 2015 she was acknowledged as one of the great female poets of her generation, alongside Fay Zwicky, Antigone Kefala, Jennifer Maiden and Judith Rodriguez.This commemorative volume gathers poems from all her collections, as well as... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Homer Street Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.Laurie Duggan's new collection begins with poems written during his last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others written on a visit to Australia in 2016 and... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Towards the End Towards the End presents thecontemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversiblytowards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker'sdisillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic... RRP: $25.00 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Womerah Lane Carment is one of Australia's best-known plein air artists. It is his distinctive mark as a writer that he writes as he paints from life capturing the likeness of a particular place in time, remaining faithful to the moment when he sees... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Heide *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry*Heide is an epic poem about history,painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia -from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Intimate Antipathies IntimateAntipathiesis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
