Author: B. N. Oakman
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Poetry. B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humor complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favor of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion. You'll be drawn into topics ranging from the socio-economic to the personal--the ekphrastic to football--the political to the historical.
In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts
Author: B. N. Oakman
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Poetry. B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humor complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favor of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion. You'll be drawn into topics ranging from the socio-economic to the personal--the ekphrastic to football--the political to the historical.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Poetry. B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humor complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favor of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion. You'll be drawn into topics ranging from the socio-economic to the personal--the ekphrastic to football--the political to the historical.
Second Thoughts
Author: B N Oakman
Publisher: Interactive Publications Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922120987
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood.
Publisher: Interactive Publications Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922120987
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood.
Ruin
Author: Roberta Lowing
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479434
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Poetry. RUIN is one of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War (2003--20 ). Using four distinctive voices, and constructed almost as a thriller, Roberta Lowing's 55 poems re-create the devastating invasion and years of betrayal and heartbreak--and moments of hope and illumination--endured by Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. RUIN pays tribute to the Twentieth Century's greatest humanist poets and resonates with the influences of Neruda, Levertov, Celan and more. This work is of our time for our time, a collection which expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479434
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Poetry. RUIN is one of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War (2003--20 ). Using four distinctive voices, and constructed almost as a thriller, Roberta Lowing's 55 poems re-create the devastating invasion and years of betrayal and heartbreak--and moments of hope and illumination--endured by Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. RUIN pays tribute to the Twentieth Century's greatest humanist poets and resonates with the influences of Neruda, Levertov, Celan and more. This work is of our time for our time, a collection which expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world.
Men Briefly Explained
Author: Tim Jones
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general. Thought provoking, impertinent, irreverent, witty, startling, this collection will have you mesmerised from start to finish.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general. Thought provoking, impertinent, irreverent, witty, startling, this collection will have you mesmerised from start to finish.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Author: Amelia Fielden
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869097
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The book-length tanka collaboration, by Kathy Kituai and Amelia Fielden, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human experiences and our wider, more tenuous, though no less ambiguous experiences of life. These are poems to be savoured in the mouth and tanka to listen to: they demand to be read aloud, sung.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869097
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The book-length tanka collaboration, by Kathy Kituai and Amelia Fielden, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human experiences and our wider, more tenuous, though no less ambiguous experiences of life. These are poems to be savoured in the mouth and tanka to listen to: they demand to be read aloud, sung.
Just Off Message
Author: Dr David P Reiter
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1925231607
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP. Now, 20 years on, more than forty creators return to celebrate the survival of this maverick venture with the very best of work past, current and future. Their message to you is that independent publishing houses like IP are, and always will be, an essential part of the cultural landscape even in the face of globalisation and aspiring robots. Who are these daring writers whose work is Just off Message? You know how to find them.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1925231607
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP. Now, 20 years on, more than forty creators return to celebrate the survival of this maverick venture with the very best of work past, current and future. Their message to you is that independent publishing houses like IP are, and always will be, an essential part of the cultural landscape even in the face of globalisation and aspiring robots. Who are these daring writers whose work is Just off Message? You know how to find them.
Backtrack
Author: BN Oakman
Publisher: Interactive Publications Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922830445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Backtrack, BN Oakman’s third full-length collection, is a suite of poems created in response to an observed, often baffling, world. Oakman writes with conviction in a direct and lively style, while employing various poetic forms to explore a wide range of emotions and experiences. He gives us poems crafted with empathy and humour about transient joys, abiding sadnesses, persistent injustices, fleeting triumphs and unassuageable grief – the whole exasperating mess and muddle of it all. Here are poems to engage the mind, touch the heart, nudge us to laughter, and occasionally, move us to tears. BN Oakman’s first book with IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) was In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (2006). This was followed by Second Thoughts and the audiobook What Did I Know. Reviews From Madrid to Finisterre by way of a morning chorus of magpies Oakman’s poetry speaks with grace and power to the insistence of history and memory but above all to the crucial importance of love. – Valerie Krips, author, The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Postwar Britain Eschewing the ‘contorted subject matters’ and ‘tortured’ language of his former academic colleagues ¬– as well as of many of his fellow poets writing today – Bruce Oakman is not afraid of being comprehensible. Yet there’s nothing clichéd, simplistic or predictable about his poems. They invest all kinds of everyday themes with a wry subtlety of perception, and a voice as elegant as it’s earthy. Enjoy their ‘expansive splendour’. – Ian Britain, The Making of Donald Friend: Life & Art The poetry in Backtrack is wonderfully unflinching in its focus on loss, injustice and the pain of living our mortal, loving lives. Humour and tenderness are in steady attendance, but it is the poet’s commitment to the truly well-made poem which is the fundamental source of delight. Rich imagery and a narrative skill supported by a beautifully subtle syntactical flare are the bedrock qualities at work here. To read through this deeply moving collection is to experience the unique Oakman blend of intelligence, craftmanship and compassion ‘burning away the dark’. – Ross Gillett, Swimmer in the Dust
Publisher: Interactive Publications Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922830445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Backtrack, BN Oakman’s third full-length collection, is a suite of poems created in response to an observed, often baffling, world. Oakman writes with conviction in a direct and lively style, while employing various poetic forms to explore a wide range of emotions and experiences. He gives us poems crafted with empathy and humour about transient joys, abiding sadnesses, persistent injustices, fleeting triumphs and unassuageable grief – the whole exasperating mess and muddle of it all. Here are poems to engage the mind, touch the heart, nudge us to laughter, and occasionally, move us to tears. BN Oakman’s first book with IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) was In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (2006). This was followed by Second Thoughts and the audiobook What Did I Know. Reviews From Madrid to Finisterre by way of a morning chorus of magpies Oakman’s poetry speaks with grace and power to the insistence of history and memory but above all to the crucial importance of love. – Valerie Krips, author, The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Postwar Britain Eschewing the ‘contorted subject matters’ and ‘tortured’ language of his former academic colleagues ¬– as well as of many of his fellow poets writing today – Bruce Oakman is not afraid of being comprehensible. Yet there’s nothing clichéd, simplistic or predictable about his poems. They invest all kinds of everyday themes with a wry subtlety of perception, and a voice as elegant as it’s earthy. Enjoy their ‘expansive splendour’. – Ian Britain, The Making of Donald Friend: Life & Art The poetry in Backtrack is wonderfully unflinching in its focus on loss, injustice and the pain of living our mortal, loving lives. Humour and tenderness are in steady attendance, but it is the poet’s commitment to the truly well-made poem which is the fundamental source of delight. Rich imagery and a narrative skill supported by a beautifully subtle syntactical flare are the bedrock qualities at work here. To read through this deeply moving collection is to experience the unique Oakman blend of intelligence, craftmanship and compassion ‘burning away the dark’. – Ross Gillett, Swimmer in the Dust
Water Over Stone
Author: Laura Jan Shore
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869291
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869291
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world.
Tongues of Ash
Author: Keith Westwater
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869267
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Tongues of Ash is a literal exploration of the New Zealand landscape through memory, emotion, and spirituality. With passages of wry humour, raw imagery, and insightful observations, Westwater extracts insights from a mysterious landscape.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869267
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Tongues of Ash is a literal exploration of the New Zealand landscape through memory, emotion, and spirituality. With passages of wry humour, raw imagery, and insightful observations, Westwater extracts insights from a mysterious landscape.
In My Defence I have no defence
Author: Sinéad Stubbins
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922626015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Sinéad Stubbins has always known that there was a better version of herself lying just outside of her grasp. That if she listened to the right song or won the right (any) award or knew about whisky or followed the right Instagram psychologist or drank kombucha, ever, or enacted the correct 70-step Korean skincare regime, she would become her 'best self'. In My Defence, I Have No Defence raises the white flag on trying to live up to impossible standards. Wild and funny and wickedly relatable, it is one woman's reckoning with her complete inability to self-improve and a hilarious reprieve for anyone who has ever struggled to be better. This is the comfort read of the year from Australia's most exciting new comedy writer.
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922626015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Sinéad Stubbins has always known that there was a better version of herself lying just outside of her grasp. That if she listened to the right song or won the right (any) award or knew about whisky or followed the right Instagram psychologist or drank kombucha, ever, or enacted the correct 70-step Korean skincare regime, she would become her 'best self'. In My Defence, I Have No Defence raises the white flag on trying to live up to impossible standards. Wild and funny and wickedly relatable, it is one woman's reckoning with her complete inability to self-improve and a hilarious reprieve for anyone who has ever struggled to be better. This is the comfort read of the year from Australia's most exciting new comedy writer.