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The Best Australian Poems 2010

Author : Robert Adamson

Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 21,20 MB

Release : 2015-01-29

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1458798666

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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.



The ABC Book of Australian Poetry

Author : Libby Hathorn

Publisher :

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 38,67 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Australia

ISBN : 9780733320194

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Follow a river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day, and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. Age 10-14. 'I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux) Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. In this beautiful collection of poems for children, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others. Exquisite illustrations by Cassandra Allan make this a collection to treasure. Age 10-14.



The Summer King

Author : Joanna Preston

Publisher :

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 33,55 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Poetry

ISBN :

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The Summer King a book of poetry tells stories exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, sport all are featured in this 'fine and fierce first collection' (Gillian Clark). The book contains two sequences: Cowarral, about poet Joanna Preston's family farm in the Forbes Valley of New South Wales (Australia), and Venery, which was inspired by the collective nouns that first appeared in the Book of St. Albans. Joanna Preston, an exciting new Australasian voice, was the inaugural winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, which is New Zealand's richest poetry prize. Her warm, accessible, and moving poetry shows technical skill, originality, verve, wit, and humanity.



The Best Australian Poems 2011

Author : John Tranter

Publisher : Black Inc.

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 15,11 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1921870451

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'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...



The Best Australian Stories 2012

Author : Sonya Hartnett

Publisher : Black Inc.

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 44,19 MB

Release : 2012-11-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1921870818

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These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next. -Sonya Hartnett The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country's premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees Sonya Hartnett select thirty-two remarkable stories that roam widely in subject and style, but share "a delicate complexity and a vibrant cleverness." A travelling scout for a modern-day freak show meets a girl with a strange and wonderful gift. A winning lottery ticket tests the bonds of three mismatched siblings. A beast of burden offers an alternative account of Australian settlement. There is dark humour, stealthy and unsettling, and moments of terror, whimsy, romance and surprise. What unites them is a steadfast commitment to the storyteller's art - the art of making the reader want to turn the page. 'Almost all the stories curated by Hartnett were new to me and reading them was a treat ... As with the poems, this outstanding collection confirms the robust health of the Australian short story.' -the Australian 'You'd be hard to please if you found nothing in this collection to make you want to linger and relish what you'd discovered.' -Sydney Morning Herald Sonya Hartnett is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels. In 2003, her adult novel, Of a Boy, won the Age Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.



The Best Australian Poems 2015

Author : Geoff Page

Publisher : Black Inc.

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 40,36 MB

Release : 2015-11-02

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1863957790

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The human desire for patterned language is as strong as the need for narrative.—Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who’s who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page’s selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry scene. Robert Adamson • Jordie Albiston • Judith Beveridge • Eileen Chong • Joe Dolce • Lin Van Hek • Nigel Roberts • Robyn Rowland • Jennifer Compton • Kevin Hart • Lisa Gorton • Clive James • Rozanna Lilley • Tony Page • Michael Sharkey • Chris Wallace-Crabbe • Fiona Wright • Jakob Ziguras • Les Murray • Fay Zwicky • Jamie Grant • Lucy Dougan • Ali Cobby Eckermann • Kevin Brophy • Billy Marshall Stoneking • Bruce Dawe • Anne Elvey • Geoff Goodfellow • Jennifer Maiden • AND MANY MORE . . .



Happiness

Author : Martin Harrison

Publisher : Apollo Books

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 38,32 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781742586861

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Martin Harrison (1949-2014) prepared and delivered this final manuscript at the end of a prolific creative life. With the vulnerability of a lover, the poet peels back one cover of truth after another; reckless for the evidence of the senses, he sifts light, sound, and smell. Poems like the skin of a world: breathing, walking, touching. Martin Harrison's culminating poetic achievement is a crossing over - stylistically, thematically, emotionally. Mapping the tragic chiasmus of love and death, it finally asserts the transcendent power of poetry to bear witness, to join us in a greater communion. Cosmopolitan and local, these triumphs of a 'late style' remind us what poetry is when its mastery allows the irony of existence to walk naked and to exult. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Poetry]



The Best Australian Stories 2010

Author : Cate Kennedy

Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 27,71 MB

Release : 2015-01-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1458798658

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There is little to match the pleasurable, exhilarating rush when we know we are in the hands of a writer with authority. Their power is like a kind of charisma - we allow ourselves to be willingly, absolutely persuaded.' - Cate Kennedy In The Best Australian Stories 2010, Cate Kennedy presents a seductive line - up of the year's most exciting short fiction, featuring the best work from publications around the country alongside pieces published here for the first time. A literary feud unfolds, blow by comical blow, in the books pages of a Sydney newspaper. Ned Kelly's mother has her day in court. And as flood waters slowly rise in a small Australian town, a woman quietly watches and waits. By turns playful, heart - wrenching, intimate and exuberant, these twenty - nine stories reveal the strength and variety of Australian fiction today. The authors include first - timers as well as established masters, and the result is a stimulatingly diverse collection. Contributors include: Robert Drewe, Nam Le, Karen Hitchcock, Paddy O'Reilly, John Kinsella, Anna Krien, David Francis, Chris Womersley, Ryan O'Neill, Dorothy Simmons, Louise D'Arcy, Joshua Lobb, Tim Herbert, Michael Sala, Sherryl Clarke, A.S. Patric, Josephine Rowe, Mike Ladd, Meg Mundell, David Mence, Fiona McFarlane, Cory Taylor, Antonia Baldo, Suvi Mahonen, David Kelly, Joanne Riccioni, Stephanie Buckle, Gillian Essex, Michael McGirr.



Crimson Crop

Author : Peter Rose

Publisher : UWA Publishing

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 50,29 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781742583907

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Peter Rose's fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several abut his late father, thus continuing the themes of his memoir Rose Boys.



Burning Bright

Author : Caroline Caddy

Publisher :

Page : 103 pages

File Size : 15,54 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781921361876

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Award-winning poet Caroline Caddy's latest collection is an acutely observed meditation on her encounters with the world. From the south coast of Western Australia to China, her poems chart a breathtaking journey across landscapes, punctuated by departure and return. From these poems, the reader may be rewarded with 'that human thrill / of sensing a pattern beginning to form / the delight at finding it doesn't' ('Shanghai renga'). The Australian Book Review said Caddy's 'carefully crafted poems are refreshing journeys of discovery which open up unfamiliar places, bring them potently alive.' Quadrant praised her 'stunningly original descriptions' while The West Australian said Caddy 'is to be hailed as a master poet with a style and panache all of her own'.