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    The Tide Will Take It
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    The Tide Will Take It

    This collection of poems is both celebration and elegy, paying homage to the everyday beauty of the natural world and documenting and protesting its degradation and neglect. The poems move through distinct threads: poems of ocean and river; poems that...
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    Near Believing
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    Near Believing

    This is a selection from a poet who believes that Australia still has countless stories to tell, re-tell and imagine. These are works by someone intrigued by the varieties of poetic forms, who is a lover of verse satire and a believer in the...
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    Journal of the First Step
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    Journal of the First Step

    These poems seek to evoke the often subtle yet ultimately profound shifts in awareness which occur during meditation and in daily life, as the non-dual perspective enables a seeing through, or past, the formulations of experience which a dualistic...
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    Book of Mother
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    Book of Mother

    Book of Mother is an exploration of mother/son relationship and of language and consciousness (as these are entered and left). This book is an intimate encounter with dementia as lived experience. Words are an important way into the world and when we...
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    The Boy from the War Veterans' Home
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    The Boy from the War Veterans' Home

    Recent books from Martin Langford have addressed specific themes: Ground explored the evolution of Australian spaces, while Eardrum focused on music. The Boy from the War Veterans' Home, however, represents a return to the miscellaneous sources from...
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    Fantastic Day
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    Fantastic Day

    Known for their allusiveness and indirection, Bolton's poems can also be jaw-droppingly direct, as they make their way towards resolutions never clearly within their sights, achieved rather than aimed for. Fantastic Day performs philosophy,...
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    Swimmer in the Dust
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    Swimmer in the Dust

    'This collection opens with a set of double-glazed windows, blasted by bushfire before they could even be installed, gazing only at "vistas of soil". The poems move through a series of landscapes, both internal and external, experiencing the elements in...
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    A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces
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    A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces

    Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn't belong but must write his kind of oral poetry that mixes politics with sex and transcends them, with a...
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    Living in Seclusion
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    Living in Seclusion

    A multiple-award winner, widely published at home and abroad, and translated into many languages, Xiao Xiao is known for her sharp take on China's human rights record with a poetry as piercingly penetrating as personal, with vignettes of life portrayed...
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    Home Is Further Away than the Lightning
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    Home Is Further Away than the Lightning

    A long civilisation produces poets and entrepreneurs alike. But a long civilisation like China produces poet-entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-poets, or even entrepoetreneurs. That's a major difference between China and Australia. Zhang Chunhua is...
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    This Gift, This Poem
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    This Gift, This Poem

    The motivation behind this anthology is to create a collection of poems and reflections which serve as a gift for people in hospital, and for their loved ones and staff who may be supporting them during the anxieties of illness. The anthology is also...
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    Spirit Level
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    Spirit Level

    Geologists and archaeologists use spirit level tools to find horizontal levels in ground or rock. Similarly, the poems in Spirit Level search for elusive balance points between memory and lived terrain, between past and present lives, between grief and...
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    Glass Flowers
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    Glass Flowers

    In Glass Flowers, Diane Fahey explores many kinds of space - the enclosed spaces of rooms, art galleries, hospital wards, prehistoric caves, the airy, flowing spaces of gardens, and the sky's infinite life. Her intense engagement with the...
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    The Birthday Scrolls
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    The Birthday Scrolls

    What's a life look like when the reader only gets to see the birthdays? The Birthday Scrolls is a memoir of Newcastle bohemian Geoff Nicholls' birthdays between the ages of 21 and 60. Pre-gentrification Newcastle, bands and parties mingle with visits to...
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    Save As
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    Save As

    'Martin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what / do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' Save As works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics and a feeling for earth. Its poems are...
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    Sea Scale
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    Sea Scale

    Sea Scale comprises thirty new poems and a generous selection from Brook Emery's previous five volumes. From and dug my fingers in the sand, his first book, to Have Been and Are, his most recent, reviewers have noted the fluency and tactility of his...
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    Hear the Art
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    Hear the Art

    Hear the Art is the essential poetry-as-art collection, loaded with Richard Tipping's elegant, wry and telling concrete poems made as sculpture and as picture. He is fascinated by words found within words, and articulating their iterations.Tipping works...
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    Fifteeners
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    Fifteeners

    The sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu...
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    Being Prepared
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    Being Prepared

    Why is dress so much more than draping ourselves with the nearest piece of material we can find? And why does being dressed change us into creatures that seem so separate from the rest of nature? Being Prepared explores several ways these transformations...
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    Contemporary Australian Poetry
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    Contemporary Australian Poetry

    The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater.A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century. Over ten years...
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    Bunratty

    Duncan Hose is from the softslang line of of the chansonnier, whose reference points range between Trefoil Island, Melbourne and Coney Island. He is the author of Rathaus and One Und Bacchus.
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    House By the River

    A House by the River journeys through the six years Diane Fahey lived with her mother, Patricia, as her carer, and ends at a point five years after her death. Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given...
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    New Year's Day at the Hotel Australia
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    New Year's Day at the Hotel Australia

    In the late 1930s an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young work mates to meet up on New Year's Day, in the year 2000, in the famous Long Bar of the Hotel Australia. But the reunion never took place because, while sixty years later...
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    Caterpillar on a Leaf

    Rae Desmond Jones' poetry specialises in precisely observed social and political phenomena. People and their often anti-social impulses, as acted out in tension with their social context, give his poetry the power to unsettle and disturb, while...
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    Australian Ravens

    Australian ravens is a book of mourning, celebration, family, misgiving, lies and caution. The three long poems in this book, 'Broken', 'Not being in Kyoto' and 'The Blue Gum', each extend the questioning of memory, place and the past that featured in...
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    Embracing The Razor

    Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as a political fixer dismisses as out-of-date the instruments of torture in the Tower of London: John...
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    Towards the Equator
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    Towards the Equator

    This New & Selected Poems is a substantial and long-awaited compilation from one of Australia's most accomplished poets, a retrospective spanning more than thirty years. The New Poems section, 'Towards the Equator', represents Alex Skovron's sixth...
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    George Dyungayan's Bulu Line
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    George Dyungayan's Bulu Line

    George Dyugayan was a powerful Nyigina lawman from the Roebuck Plains (east of Broome). Over the course of a life spanning much of the twentieth century, the spirit of his late father visited him in dreams and gave him the seventeen verses of the The...
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    Palace of Culture

    Palace of Culture is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture. Like her previous work Red Roses, Palace is a freewheeling work drawing the reader in to...
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    Beautiful Anxiety

    The Beautiful Anxiety continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global in an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the...
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    Poetry and the Trace

    Poetry and the Trace is a compelling collection of critical essays by poets and scholars, offering fresh and teasing reflections on the art of contemporary poetry. As the volume's title declares, poetry is enmeshed with 'the trace', Derrida's 'mark of...
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    Xn

    Xn might be the shortest poem possible between two letters, a mathematical metaphor for poetry, shorthand for a process that takes something specific and transforms it into something more intensely itself. Jenkins' second collection begins pre-big bang,...
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    Ringing World

    This engaging collection charts a wild ride, from the language of the laboratory to the surprises of hetero-sex to the yearnings of the about-to-be-cannibalised. The writing is at times provocative and sensual, at others slyly meditative, but always...
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    Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
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    Contemporary Asian Australian Poets

    This ground-breaking anthology collects poems written by Australian poets who are migrants, their children, and refugees of Asian heritage, spanning work that covers over three decades of writing. Inclusive of hitherto marginalised voices, these poems...
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    Terra Bravura

    Terra Bravura, began as short text messages sent to David Musgrave from the desert on the way to Broken Hill. He later described their poetic form thuis:'The poems are terrific. Vox clamantis in desierto. The lines are dense and staccato, with a kind of...
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    Rawshock

    Using the Rorschach inkblots as metaphors, conjuring the wondrous and the monstrous in his poems, Toby Fitch brings a new vision and shape to Australian poetry. Old modes of expression, such as the mythic, the romantic, the symbolic and the surreal, are...
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    Certain Fathoms

    Bonny Cassidy's first book, Certain Fathoms, glimmers with precisely observed moments that make a strange place of the familiar. These poems speak not only to each other but to and of other writers: Eve Langley, John Berryman, JS Harry. Cassidy knits...
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    Sly Mongoose

    In Sly Mongoose the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and time-frame from the point of view of an 'ordinary punter', a...
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    Wing Collection

    The Wing Collection presents a broad overview of the distinctive contribution Diane Fahey has made to Australian poetry over the course of thirty years. It offers extensive selections from her work on birds and insects, on the worlds of myth and story,...
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    Ghost Poetry Project

    Ten nights. Ten haunted locations. One terrifying adventure across Australia.From a gaol cell to a lunatic asylum to a night in a haunted hearse, The Ghost Poetry Project is one poet's attempt to find a language of guts and daring. A unique exploration...
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    Best of Australian Poems 2023
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    Best of Australian Poems 2023

    Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry across a timeframe of 1 July...
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    First Names

    Intensely observant, gravely acute, these poems are a true achievement. In Simon West we have a poet who knows how to weight a line, how to savour a phrase. But he also proffers the nimble wit of the title poem, and of "Faute de mieux". West is a...
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    Concrete Tuesday

    Concrete Tuesday contains two new sequences including the stunning Grace , which won the Josephine Ulrick Prize in 2008 and tells the story, backwards, of a man who loses his soul. In addition to these there are several new poems, some on the familiar...
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    Mishearing
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    Mishearing

    Mishearing is a companion volume to Musgrave's 2016 vers libre collection Anatomy of Voice. In it, he details the compositional method of these poems as 'mishearings' of poems via Microsoft Word 2003's in-built speech recognition function. The...
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  • A Pocketful of Kindness
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    A Pocketful of Kindness

    Age range 8 to 11Featuring a foreword by chartered psychologist, author and yoga teacher, Suzy Reading.If you can be anything - BE KIND! A helpful guide to keep those caring and sharing vibes going strong.Dip into A Pocketful of Kindness for a motivating...
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  • Aussie Heroes Dame Nellie Melba
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    Aussie Heroes Dame Nellie Melba

    This Aussie Heroes series introduces primary-aged children to heroes who have made a contribution to Australian society. Each hero has helped others in need and in turn shaped history.Six-year-old Helen Porter just wanted to sing on stage. As a child,...
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  • Growing up with Grammar Book 2
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    Growing up with Grammar Book 2

    Books one to four in this carefully researched series cover the development of the necessary grammatical knowledge, from the early years to the end of junior school in a practical and readily accessible form. These contain write-in activities.The Growing...
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    On this Ground
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    On this Ground

    Many of us gain inspiration, solace, beauty and a sense of wonder from our interactions with nature, and writers have long plumbed and explored these depths.At the same time as many of us tune in to natural landscapes, our environment is imperilled as...
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