sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Coniston 'Mowed them down wholesale!'With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia.Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri... 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 From the Bukarikara Butcher Joe Nangan was one of those charismatic people who exercised a most profound impact on all who met him.Having spent his life acquiring the ritual knowledge and lore, not only of his own Nyikina and Walmajarri forbears but also that pertaining to... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Other Flesh Robbie Coburn grew up in Woodstock, Victoria on his family's farm. The Other Flesh, his second volume, contains many poems whose texture sings of being alone under the stars. Coburn's world shimmers with light as much as it burns with ferocity... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added In Time With Water How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? This book captures... RRP: $60.00 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties The Shipwrecks of the Roaring 40s project was funded by the Australian Research Council to investigate some of the earliest and most important shipwrecks in Western Australia, including the four Dutch East Indiamen wrecked in the 17th and 18th centuries... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Noongar Bush Tucker Before the colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal Australians lived on a wonderful larder of fresh fruit,vegetables and lean meat, in a land largely free from disease, with more exercise, less stress andsupportive communities. Today, in Aboriginal... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Randolph Stow Randolph Stow (19352010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children's novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an accomplished and impressive literary legacy.The... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The little book of sunlight and maggots We are delighted to be following the successful publication of Satan Repentant last year with this new volume by Michael Aiken.'Everything is at once specific and imaginary in Michael Aiken's poetry. Its minute particulars serve to make strange the very... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Vishvarupa 'From the exploration of love myths to the celebration of Mumbai, from an extraordinary portrait poem like Sita to the humorous eroticism of Parvati in Darlinghurst, the poems in Vishvarupa show a breadth of human understanding and unassuming wisdom that... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Lyre Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of expression, each of which can each be translated into a different kind of... 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 That Was My Home That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps aroundFremantle, Swanbourne and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the SwanRiver. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a time when many Noongarpeople lived with their... RRP: $29.99 $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 A Fixed Place What was it like, living through the social, cultural and political upheaval of the last fifty years of the twentieth century in this Lucky Country? With life flying forward into the future, what could be held onto, and what self (that place which is... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Keeper of the Ritual Shey Marque's debut full collection is wonderfully responsive to the complexity and sensuality of ocean, bush, animals, art and human relationships. The poems are always wryly intelligent, self-aware and carefully crafted, across an impressive variety of... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Autobiochemistry 'A book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn's range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The short story of you and I 'From long narrative lines to fine-boned, lyrical loops and ties that bind these poems into place, Richard James Allen has taken risks with language that mark this as his most adventurous and significant book to date.' - Anthony Lawrence'Allen's subject... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Unravelling the Secret life of Plant Roots Roots are truly amazing structures. They show great flexibility when exploring and exploiting soil substrates of uneven penetrability and availability of water and nutrients, yet also possess highly ordered architectures and anatomical features which may... RRP: $55.00 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Unhallowed Arts Unhallowed Arts is part of a series of events and publications organised by SymbioticA to commemorate the bicentenary of Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern prometheus. The book contributes to the legacy... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Requiem with Yellow Butterflies An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other.Requiem with Yellow Butterflies is a love... RRP: $26.99 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Trillion Tiny Awakenings Listen to this non-prophet, This high priestess of poetry: No more hatred, just love, We are pure love, we are pure love. And this gathering, every gathering Is sacred. Listen.Candy Royalle was a spoken word poet par excellence, presenting her words and... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Man on the Mantlepiece During a 1952 electric storm off Wattamolla NSW a waterspout drew in the CSIRO Cloud Physics Dakota, atomising all those aboard, including the writer's father. Or did it? When his living body has disappeared, what to make of the uniformed man on the... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Open Door The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia."One of the most original and poignantly... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Old Greeks How should the people that initiated a journey be remembered? What obligations arise as a result of their passing away? What role do films and photographs play in the process of memorialisation?Drawing on the events surrounding the arrival of the... RRP: $24.99 $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 Freo Groove 'It's a bit of a haven. It's a paradise for sure. Close to utopia for me.' - Abbe MayFreo Groove is a window into the world of Fremantle musicians and the vibrant musical culture that has built up over generations.From blues musician Dave Brewer, The Jam... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Moonlight on Oleander Paul Hetherington has become a master of the prose poem form, creating intriguing yet hospitable pieces whose tonal, emotional and imaginative range are a delight. Each piece has been carefully wrought to become sharp and revelatory; his graceful... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Coal Truth Since 2012, the fight to stop the opening of the vast Galilee coal basin has emerged as an iconic pivot of the Australian climate and environment movement.The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Satan Repentant A violent epic leaping from the cosmological to the infinitesimal, Satan Repentant is a modern-day drama of revenge, resentment, and remorse, telling a new myth of what would happen if Satan tried to apologise and atone for all his crimes. Through that... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Aboriginal Country Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples as promised by Prime Minister... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dancing in Shadows Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Walking With Camels *Winner of the 2020 Chief Minister's NT Book Award for Best Fiction Book*Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fume Phillip Hall writes from the edge: the edge of language; the edge of mental illness; and, from the perspective of a non-Indigenous poet and teacher standing at the edge of Indigenous culture and community carrying generosity and love alongside the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Do Oysters Get Bored? A baby cries; a mother exits, leaving her family behind; a child finally begins to talk; a father stops breathing.Rozanna Lilley is a social anthropologist, autism researcher, and Oscar's mum. Oscar is on the autism spectrum, which means he has a... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Wildlife of Berlin 'Neilsen's intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Flaw in the Pattern Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Criminal Re-Register Here are scrummed gangs of criminals and police, with all their lurks, quirks and argots. The underworld and its overlords: how ingenious and energetic, how ardent both sides can be. What brutes they can be too, day after day, as they track and trick... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Afloat in Light "David Ads' luminous and honest collection, Afloat in Light, is chiefly a celebration of fatherhood and of paying attention, utilising Simone Weil's notion that 'attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity'. The collection extends to existence... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Preparations for Departure "Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Communists Like Us Communists like us is simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love?... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Personal History of Vision A Personal History of Vision expands on the concerns of Fischer's acclaimed first collection Paths of Flight and embodies what Judith Beveridge has described as his 'seemingly effortless ability to blend visual detail and imaginative vision.'... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky Zwicky is one of the world's finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the personal encounter with the weight of history and the obligation... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
