Best of Australian Poems 2021

Best of Australian Poems 2021 PDF Author: Ellen van Neerven
Publisher: Australian Poetry
ISBN: 9780992318925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
This is the first of a new series, offering a poetic snapshot of the year that was, 1 July 2020-30 June 2021--featuring 100 poets and 100 poems across an astonishing range of poetic voice, approaches and themes.

Best of Australian Poems 2021

Best of Australian Poems 2021 PDF Author: Ellen van Neerven
Publisher: Australian Poetry
ISBN: 9780992318925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
This is the first of a new series, offering a poetic snapshot of the year that was, 1 July 2020-30 June 2021--featuring 100 poets and 100 poems across an astonishing range of poetic voice, approaches and themes.

Sydney Spleen

Sydney Spleen PDF Author: Toby Fitch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925818758
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaire's concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything - and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony so as to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom: corporate rapacity, climate change, disaster capitalism, the plague, neo-colonialism, fake news, fascism, and how to raise kids in a world fast becoming obsolete. The backdrop of this collection of poems is sparkling Sydney and its screens, through which the poet mainlines global angst. Fitch's 'spleen poems', with their radical use of form and tone, are as much an aesthetic experience as a literary one - translation becomes homage becomes satire becomes song; essays become lyrics become rants become dreams. What is a poem when 'no one believes in the future now anyway'? Nor is the collection lacking in humour. Sydney Spleen mocks everything in its crystal glass, yet still finds real moments of connection to celebrate. 'Fitch's poems are not interested in slowly unfolding a metaphor or arriving at a singular meaning. Instead, they ask you to cling on for your life.' -- Sarah Holland-Batt

Heat and Light

Heat and Light PDF Author: Ellen van Neerven
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702267902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. Over three parts, van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In 'Heat', we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In 'Water', a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In 'Light', familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging. Heat and Light is an intriguing collection that heralded the arrival of a major new talent in Australian writing.

Arelhekenhe Angkentye: Women's Talk

Arelhekenhe Angkentye: Women's Talk PDF Author: Akeyulerre Healing Akeyulerre Healing Centre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648062950
Category : Aboriginal Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Arrernte women are constantly stretched across two incongruent worlds. The world of Arrernte language, culture, kinship, country and knowledge systems which they are striving to protect and maintain on a daily basis. The modern world with its ongoing colonisation and relentless pressures. Both of these worlds are captured in the poems" - Penny Drysdale

The Best Australian Poems 2017

The Best Australian Poems 2017 PDF Author: Sarah Holland-Batt
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863959629
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
The Best Australian Poemsreveal the impressive depth, diversity and boldness of this country's poetic talent. For the second year in a row, award-winning poet, critic and academic Sarah Holland-Batt selects Australia's finest poems, from both rising stars and well-known figures, presenting a dazzling array of themes and styles. Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy and Les Murray.

Human Looking

Human Looking PDF Author: Andy Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925818857
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to 'correct'. They range widely, finding figures to identify with in mythology and history, art and photography, poetry and fiction. A number of poems deal with unsettling extremes of embodiment, and with violence against disabled people. Others emerge out of everyday life, and the effects of illness, pain and prejudice. The strength of the speaking voice is remarkable, as is its capacity for empathy and love. 'I, this wonderful catastrophe', the poet has Mary Shelley's monstrous figure declare. The use of unusual and disjunctive - or 'deformed' - poetic forms, adds to the emotional impact of the poems.

The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry

The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry PDF Author: John Kinsella
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143008736
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Book Description
'A very fine anthology, with exemplary introductions. It is refreshing to see how much has been done so well.' - Peter Pierce Wide in scope and bold in ambition, this exciting anthology covers the range of Australian poetic achievement, from early colonial verse through to contemporary work, with a strong recognition of Indigenous voices. This collection brings together great and familiar names with those that deserve better recognition. Including valuable introductory essays by John Kinsella, and biographical notes for all the poets, The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry presents the full measure of Australian poetic talent in all its richness and diversity.

New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry

New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry PDF Author: Dan Disney
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030762874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Book Description
This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here—“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”—models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics of creative production in a place that continues to position capital over culture, property over community, each of the twenty essays in this anthology takes the subject of Australian poetry definitively beyond Eurocentrism and white privilege. By pushing back against nationalizing mythologies that have, over the last 200 years since colonization, not only narrativized the logic of instrumentalization but rendered our lands precarious, this book asserts new possibilities of creative responsiveness within the Australian sensorium.

The Lost Arabs

The Lost Arabs PDF Author: Omar Sakr
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524860476
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality. Visceral and energetic, Sakr’s poetry confronts the complicated notion of “belonging” when one’s family, culture, and country are at odds with one’s personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.

The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry

The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry PDF Author: Cassandra Atherton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780522874747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetryincludes numerous distinguished prose poets--Jordie Albiston, joanne burns, Gary Catalano, Anna Couani, Alex Skovron, Samuel Wagan Watson, Ania Walwicz and many moremdash;and documents prose poetry's growing appeal over recent decades, from the poetic margins to the mainstream. This collection reframes our understanding not only of this dynamic poetic form, but of Australian poetry as a whole.