The Best Australian Poetry 2009
Author : Robert Adamson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 1458742474
The Best Australian Poems 2009
Author : Robert Adamson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 1458742466
Book Description
When Australian poetry soars to new heights, it's usually because poets open up to the whole place ... they take risks and write from the core of our culture.' ---ROBERT ADAMSON. By turns playful and topical, intimate and engaged, this vibrant collection gathers voices from all across the country from cities and coastal towns to the very heart o...
The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author :
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1458742563
Book Description
The Striped World
Author : Emma Jones
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571263135
Book Description
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.' The same might be said of the poems themselves in this restless and memorable search for belonging.
The Best Australian Poems 2010
Author : Robert Adamson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1458798666
Book Description
The Best Australian Poems 2010 vibrates with correspondences. The images in some poems are reflected in others … until the individual poems begin to read like stanzas in some epic story of this country.' - Robert Adamson Selected by one of Australia's most acclaimed poets, this inspired collection captures the richness and scope of present - day Australian verse. It features innovative and exciting poems - many published here for the first time - from our best - known poets as well as daring and insightful works from rising stars. Together they create a lively sense of conversation, of voices criss - crossing the continent, exploring the many themes that animated and inspired the nation's poets in 2010. Contributors include: Chris Andrews, Judith Beveridge, Ken Bolton, Peter Boyle, David Brooks, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, Elizabeth Campbell, Justin Clemens, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Luke Davies, Bruce Dawe, Laurie Duggan, Stephen Edgar, Anne Elvey, Lionel Fogarty, Lisa Gorton, Robert Gray, Martin Harrison, Kevin Hart, Barry Hill, Sarah Holland - Batt, L.K. Holt, Lisa Jacobson, John Kinsella, Anna Krien, Anthony Lawrence, Geoffrey Lehmann, Kate Lilley, Astrid Lorange, Roberta Lowing, Rhyll McMaster, Jennifer Maiden, Kate Middleton, Peter Minter, Derek Motion, Les Murray, Geoff Page, Peter Rose, Gig Ryan, Jaya Savige, Craig Sherborne, Vivian Smith, Peter Steele, John Tranter, Chris Wallace - Crabbe, Petra White and many more.
Better Than God
Author : Peter Porter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780330460675
Book Description
"Peter Porter is one of the pre-eminent Australian poets of his generation and a major figure in the landscape of British poetry. The publication of Better Than God will coincide with his 80th birthday. He has received the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry and innumerable other awards. A previous collection for Picador, Max Is Missing, won the Forward Prize for best collection. Porter's new collection refines the ideas of his last few books, returning to the themes of history, art and mortality. Many of the poems are reminiscent of Wallace Steven's final book The Rock in their magisterial late-life perspective. This is an important work from a highly respected poet."--Publisher's website.
The Best Australian Poems 2011
Author : John Tranter
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1921870451
Book Description
'What a rich, strange and diverse lot these poems turned out to be ... I suspect that these baroque and potent imaginings can only have come into existence as fragments of dreams or nightmares.' - John Tranter In "The Best Australian Poems 2011," celebrated poet John Tranter selects the most vigorous, varied and interesting poems of the last year. This sparkling collection shines a light on the phantasmagorical nature of poetry, evoking images, transformations and events that range from the playful to the melancholy by way of exuberance and satire. Featuring award-winning poems alongside brand-new works, as well as a mix of emerging and renowned poets, this is a volume of surreal beauty and emotional resonance. Poets include: Robert Adamson, Ali Alizadeh, Jude Aquilina, Ken Bolton, Pam Brown, joanne burns, Sarah Day, Bruce Dawe, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Angela Gardner, Geoff Goodfellow, Lisa Gorton, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Holland-Batt, Jill Jones, Cate Kennedy, Andy Kissane, Mike Ladd, Kate Lilley, Jennifer Maiden, David McCooey, Les Murray, Ouyang Yu, Felicity Plunkett, Peter Rose, Gig Ryan, Jaya Savige, Thomas Shapcott, Craig Sherborne, Pete Spence, Peter Steele, Maria Takolander, Andrew Taylor, Tim Thorne, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Alan Wearne and many more...
Inside My Mother
Author : Ali Cobby Eckermann
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1925818349
Book Description
‘...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.’ Judges’ citation, 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality – qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as ‘Inside My Mother’ and ‘Lament’. There is defiance and protest in ‘Clapsticks’ and ‘I Tell You True’. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch.
Human Looking
Author : Andy Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 9781925818857
Book Description
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 Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry
Author : John Kinsella
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 192516473X
Book Description
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and defined the ways that Western Australians see themselves.
