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    Good for the Soul
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    Good for the Soul

    In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed...
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  • Time alone on a quiet path
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    Time alone on a quiet path

    'This substantial collection holds the reader with its unique voice and finely crafted language. In each section, the poems build on and inform each other, while their major themes thread throughout with compassion and wry humour. Whether as flaneur or...
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    i-Tjuma
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    i-Tjuma

    Between 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra...
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    Not Always Diplomatic
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    Not Always Diplomatic

    A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effective diplomats and real pathfinder in leading our...
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    In the Time of Their Lives
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    In the Time of Their Lives

    'It is important for us to read our own stories and to keep the tradition of our language for our future generations.' - Dereck Harris, Chairman, Ngaanyatjarra Council'In the Time of their Lives is a wonderful book that honours the extraordinary...
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  • Anh and Lucien
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    Anh and Lucien

    'Anh and Lucien is a compelling celebration of male desire and intimacy   and also a gripping clash of cultures and ideologies. Danger and death pervade Tony Page's sensuous and sensitive evocation of a risky love affair in an alluring,...
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  • Scratchland
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    Scratchland

    Scratchland is poetry with a performative tilt. A topography of voices, of casual and perhaps not so casual encounters. A car park attendant, a neglected child, a crow with a mordant sense of humour...a possible crime. Creatures and plants scratching an...
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  • A History of What I'll Become
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    A History of What I'll Become

    In the midst of change, this book comes with its own bewilderment, yielding, and accounting. Where does 'I' begin or where does 'I' become something else, as poet and poem constantly reshape each other? Jones speaks the world as she sees it, with a...
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  • Infernal Topographies
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    Infernal Topographies

    The infernal topographies of the title are more psychological than geographical, though physical travel and the infusing of the past into the present are also at issue. Driven in part by the anxieties of time and mortality that have always been at the...
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  • Case Notes
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    Case Notes

    * Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021: Prize for Poetry*The highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning collection The Special, this electric new body of work by poet David Stavanger is a mix tape of free verse, lyric...
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    War Time on Wadjemup
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    War Time on Wadjemup

    The internment camp on Rottnest Island, established for enemy aliens from Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, can be considered a historical oddity, not least because Indigenous prisoners were also held captive there by Australian soldiers...
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  • RedACT
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    RedACT

    A new volume for our UWAP Poetry series, RedACT is 40 or so remixes of redactions of extant texts. Gibson draws on many poets alongside texts such as legal judgements, films, paintings, art installations and occasional skeins of strange prose...
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  • Bone Ink
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    Bone Ink

    'These vivid poems meld wild energy with meticulous crafting. They trace the tactile, the remembered and the sensuous, tracking young lives as they unfold under a 'deadpan sky'. With their exquisite music, fresh and startling images, they are variously...
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  • Self.i.e
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    Self.i.e

    Self i.e. is a book-length study of identity, built upon the poet's professional & personal absorption of humanistic psychology, systemic theory & attachment styles within relationships.'Alice Savona is a distinctive voice in contemporary...
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    Coniston
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    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...
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    From the Bukarikara
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    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...
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  • The Other Flesh
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    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...
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    Campus
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    Campus

    University campuses are now a fixture of practically every major city in Australia but often go under-appreciated as built environments. This collaborative history sheds light on the origins and evolution of campus design from the Second World War to...
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    In Time With Water
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    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...
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    Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties
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    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...
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    Noongar Bush Tucker
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    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...
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    Randolph Stow
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    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...
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    Hearing Maud
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    Hearing Maud

    *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction*Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author'sexperiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as...
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  • The little book of sunlight and maggots
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    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...
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  • Vishvarupa
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    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...
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    Lyre
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    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...
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    That Was My Home
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    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...
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    The Age of Consent
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    The Age of Consent

    This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they have an...
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    A Fixed Place
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    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...
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    Stranded Nation
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    Stranded Nation

    'David Walker's Stranded Nation is a recommended read for anyone, politicians and students alike, seeking to know the history of Australia's agonising over Asia; how it began, how it evolved and the passionate and colourful characters involved. Stranded...
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    Survivor Memorials
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    Survivor Memorials

    This is a book about memorials - specifically about a new type of memorial that commemorates experiences of survivors. These new memorials acknowledge loss and trauma that people have lived through, rather than died because of. It is also a book about...
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    Tales From Boom Town
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    Tales From Boom Town

    Revised and Updated, with analysis by the ABC's Antony Green.Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy has spent nearly fifty years observing twelve Premiers of Western Australia, across an extraordinary period of change in Western Australia's history,...
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  • Keeper of the Ritual
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    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...
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  • Autobiochemistry
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    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...
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  • The short story of you and I
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    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...
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    Unravelling the Secret life of Plant Roots
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    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...
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    Unhallowed Arts
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    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...
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    Requiem with Yellow Butterflies
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    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...
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  • A Trillion Tiny Awakenings
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    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...
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    The Man on the Mantlepiece
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    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...
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    Visualising Human Rights
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    Visualising Human Rights

    When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, photography was considered a 'universal language' that would communicate across barriers of race and language. 70...
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  • Open Door
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    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...
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    The Old Greeks
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    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...
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    Dangerous Ideas About Mothers
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    Dangerous Ideas About Mothers

    This book is not a guide. It won't give advice on birth, breastfeeding, or bonding. And it's not aimed solely at parents. Dangerous Ideas about Mothers is a book about motherhood as a cultural construct.Mothers are a topic on which almost everybody has...
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    Freo Groove
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    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...
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  • Moonlight on Oleander
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    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...
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    The Coal Truth
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    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...
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