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23,700원  | 20251101  | 9781764106832

A woman recedes in her kitchen when her adult adopted son shows up on the street. A daughter furtively watches as her mother finds bliss. Memories assemble, then unravel. Women love and are loved, are betrayed and betray, choose to stay, sometimes riddled with indecision, and leave-wondering if they should they cut the ivy before they go.The fox traces a spectral presence-vanishing, returning, delivering messages, wreaking carnage, inspiring love and heralding transformation.

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23,700원  | 20251001  | 9781763670167

Paul Munden checks into the suite of rooms in the Murray Hotel, Livingston, Montana, once occupied by Sam Peckinpah, legendary director of?The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and other notorious classics. For the poet, it is an act of homage and immersion, not without risk. Addressing Peckinpah directly, he reflects on the films - and the turmoil of their making - in poems both personal and finely attuned to Peckinpah's own experience.

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25,530원  | 20250901  | 9781764106825

In this volume of prose poetry, five poets approach grief in different ways; the emotion sometimes recognisable, sometimes disguised. Their works grieve for those who are gone while they traverse the idea of the abiding presence of loss. If a melancholy sense of absence is occasionally registered in these poems, there is humour too. And, more generally, there are many salutary expressions of grief-inflected yet powerfully present feelings of love and desire.

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36,480원  | 20250901  | 9781764106818

Paolo Totaro's Collected Poems were published in 2012. Taken together, the Collected Poems constituted the work of more than sixty years, spanning the period from 1950 to 2011-'all my adult life,' as Totaro wrote in his foreword. Except that there was, and there is, more life to come, and with it a startling concentration of poems. In the thirteen years since his Collected Poems, Totaro has written as much poetry as he did in the sixty preceding years.

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23,700원  | 20250801  | 9781763670198

Maggie Shapley's new collection, Fruits of Exile, explores issues of personal identity and self-realisation as it dramatises a fictional book club's discussions of the work of Australian poets Gwen Harwood and Margaret Scott-'exiles' in the male-dominated spaces of twentieth-century Australian poetry.

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29,180원  | 20250801  | 9781764106801

It is 1924, near Queenstown on the west coast of Tasmania. A?boy holds a double-barrelled gun with a?bright-eyed?black cockatoo perched?on the barrel.?A young woman with short curly hair stands beside him in the button grass, a dead black cockatoo dangling from each hand.When artist?and poet Jacqui Malins saw this arresting image in a photograph, she was captivated by the woman's face and intrigued by the scene.

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25,530원  | 20250701  | 9781763670136

What if Feels Like brings together poems published over the past twenty-five years from Brendan Ryan's seven poetry collections, as well as introducing thirty new poems. Ryan's poetry has long been recognised for its varied use of poetic forms, the laconic musicality of its language, its incisive clarity and direct address to a reader. Rural life, in particular dairy farming, has never been written about with such a critical and memorable style.

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23,700원  | 20250501  | 9781763670129

Temporal, spiritual, elemental: this book is Blakean. It reads like Ross Donlon's combination of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The poems create a 'path made by words' sometimes spoken in the voice of a child, sometimes the voice of a man, that attempt to come to terms with life's voyage over the surface tension of water, that separates today from yesterday and the living from the dead.

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23,700원  | 20250501  | 9781763670181

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25,530원  | 20231001  | 9780645651317

?On the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island there is a town called Timaru. The name derives from the M?ori phrase te-tihi-o-maru meaning 'a place of shelter'. It's place of shipwrecks and cabbage trees, smoky pubs and volcanic shores, and it's where Brent Cantwell's first collection of poetry begins.Tether takes its inspiration from this shaken landscape, exploring the fault lines that rumble between friends and family as they move and migrate, as they tether vast distances small.

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25,530원  | 20230901  | 9780645651270

Feldspar, the new collection of poetry from Brendan Ryan, is unflinching in its focus on rural landscapes, the treatment of farm animals and the humble lives of people often missing from poetry. There are odes to invigilators, truck drivers, a family member who took to walking, laments for dogs and the hardened realities of country living.

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23,700원  | 20230901  | 9780645651287

You lead me through strange geographies.You say, up here the tidecannot drown our sandwiches.Es Foong's debut collection explores the strange geographies of belonging: to family, gender, culture and oneself. It ponders boundaries; the predicament of?needing to assert them even as they cause pain and separation. It explores influences on identity and the fault-lines of trauma, how these?are woven into our bodies.

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23,700원  | 20230401  | 9780645356380

being one too law-abiding to smash windowsbeing free with spray can and ready-made slogan politicsthere is a line-my body is on the lineat risk and on fileIt's the 1970s and 1980s, and Sandra Renew, a young lesbian activist in Far North Queensland, is involved in some of the most politically charged moments in Australian history.

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21,880원  | 20221101  | 9780645356366

Like much else that finds its way onto the internet, the poetry in 'I saw the best memes of my generation'?is fleeting, reactionary and selective with its facts-only ever tangentially concerned with the 'real' world. Somehow this book skewers SS utes, flower arrangement, the antiquated forms of Italian Opera, the emerging politics of the climate crisis and the misogynist underbelly of rock and roll with one flukey shot of an arrow.

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25,530원  | 20210201  | 9780648936787

In his teens, Ross Donlon had?poems?published in?The Bulletin, Australia's iconic journal, and in 1965, the literary editor predicted 'an exciting future' for the young poet. Donlon's next poem was published thirty-three years later.?In a 'second budding' he has had many poems published across Australia and overseas and read at festivals both at home and in Europe.