Author: Andrew Leggett
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819383
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Explores the duality of beauty and ugliness of creation and destruction. The title section addresses the beauty of the body subject to the ravages of passion, disease and death. The second section takes up the metaphor 'Prophecy'. Leggett: prize winner in the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award 2004.
Author: Michael Sariban
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819022
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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In Facing the Pacific, Michael Sariban explores the uniqueness of place and the possibilities of mystery. Whether exploring the glare and undertow of beaches, the stillness of country, or lovers contemplating the enigma of a clear night sky, Sariban's poetry invites us to explore the deeper currents of our experience. "Only those poets who value silence, who let their words grow out of it, can be 'intense with doubt and feeling', as poetry requires in its deepest levels. Michael Sariban is a meditative poet who writes with 'infinite attention' about landscape and mindscape." - Kevin Hart "Cold in the tropics, Sariban has made himself vulnerable to what the earth, sea and sky have to offer - the shivering wonder of it all." - Kate Llewellyn "His poems are urbane, skilful and various. So many here can be savoured again and again." - Judith Rodriguez "Sariban catches the unexpected moment in alert, memorable language." - Thomas Shapcott
Author: Ellen Mae Franklin
Publisher: Carol March
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Fantasy is a place not to escape from but to find refuge in. ‘Be not afraid of the dark for in that quiet our imagination is free’ This book of dark, short stories is a dedication to all who have the courage to look into the dark. Be not afraid. Be who you are and share the love of reading. Do you believe in happy endings? Is the hero always right? Explore the twists and turns of these twelve stand alone tales.
Author: Michelle Cahill
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in the afternoon heat.
Author: Libby Hart
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819340
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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'Resonant and delicate, Fresh News from the Arctic explores the physical and imaginary. This is a collection that investigates what it means to be human, probing into the meaning of life and questioning mortality, myth - both private and known - and the mysterious. At once atmospheric, with a surreal blend of emotion and memory, Fresh News is a fluid and ever-shifting landscape of possibilities. These poems are restless and inquisitive. They echo a desire to forge a voice that is as curious as it is distinctive. These are poems attuned to our tough yet fragile planet. Feelingly, they celebrate its loam and snow, travelled seas, and the inexhaustible theatre of sky.' - Chris Wallace-Crabbe 'These warm, spare poems move exquisitely between memory, imagination and history: from the Arctic Circle to Virginia Woolf, from two fruits and ice cream to kangaroos in Paris. Libby Hart understands that poetry is language on the point of evocation, intent on "murmuring the world, grasping it slowly". She is indeed a poet to watch.' - Lisa Jacobson 'Vivid, strong, sinuous, beautifully rendered. Highly memorable and compelling.' - Mikhail Iossel, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Author: Rosemary Huisman
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819332
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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Rosemary Huisman writes from where she is. This does not necessarily mean a romantic concern with self-expression, but it does mean paying attention to her surroundings-natural, social, political. It especially includes paying attention to the language used by other people. The accuracy and clarity of what she aims for is not some objective truth, but it is what is truthful for her, to her perception and understanding. "This is a world wonderfully changed by Rosemary Huisman's fine observation, playful intelligence and true feeling. Her poetry gives us what we need: it helps us recognise ourselves even as it constantly surprises us. A pleasure to read-and read again." - Noel Rowe "I felt a great admiration for how much of the world is lucidly present in Huisman's poetry. Places, characters and remembrances are all made vital and rich in these clear, shapely poems. Her clean approaches and her incisive, guiding voice make her a poet of power and authority. The delicacy and poise of her language is a delight, and her range of interests makes this a dynamic collection. Huisman's poems leap with life." - Judith Beveridge
Author: David Rowbotham
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819111
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Poetry. Back in 1994, when David Rowbotham released his New and Selected Poems, 1945-1993, a flurry of reviews appeared in the major newspapers and magazines remarking on how richly Rowbotham deserved more recognition as one of Australia's major poets of the past century. But if he is the most major of Australia's neglected poets, what is remarkable is that Rowbotham has continued to write sixty years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. POEMS FOR AMERICA is certain to earn Rowbotham that elusive literary Oscar.
Author: Mark O'Flynn
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1876819669
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A strange and compelling world is revealed in What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O'Flynn has an elevated poetic voice, but also the capacity for revealing familiar things in a strange new light. From the first poem, we are introduced to poetry with an almost physical presence because each word leaves a weight like the 'imprint of the iron ladder hard against shins'. The book is full of contrasts, there is poetry of great sadness and poetry with great humour. This is what I like about O'Flynn's work, though it makes it a difficult book to write about. If he says one thing, then something else applies too. It is not like Heaney or Muldoon. It is Australian, informed by many voices. - Tony Curtis, winner, Irish National Poetry Prize
Author: Sahar Mustafah
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Beauty of Your Face is “a story of outsiders coming together in surprising and uplifting ways” (New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice). The Beauty of Your Face tells a uniquely American story in powerful, evocative prose. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter—radicalized by the online alt-right—attacks the school. As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories, and into a profound and “moving” (Bustle) exploration of one woman’s life in a nation at odds with its ideals.
Author: Biltmore nursery, Biltmore, N.C.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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