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21) Obliquity
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Obliquity embraces fathers and fishing, coastlines and Captain Cook. The imagery is arresting, avocados are "carved omens", beaches "white as hallucination" and closure always nuanced.
22) Original Clichés
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'If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He's been warned by the Speaker.' – Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RN's Poetica)
'Rob Walker's Original Clichés is a wry, sardonic, meta-poetic and often very funny exploration of politics, ageing, current affairs, fear, travel, human weaknesses, technology and much more....
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Why has poetry fallen so sadly by the literary wayside of our hectic digital age? An age, if ever there was one, needing the kind of humanizing empathy that readable (and quotable) poetry can provide. One of the central problems facing poetry today is that we seem to have forgotten (in some cases, perhaps deliberately) its link to the emotional cadence of music, and when that link is broken the light fails. These 'shapes of light' seek rediscovery,...
25) The Fortune Bird
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The Fortune Bird, the author's first book of poetry, is a collection of personal lyrics notable for their emotional maturity and their sparkling images. Reading these poems will take you around the world and into a deep well of feeling.
Ron Pretty
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'It is poetically satisfying, when gutsy is elegant and outspoken is gentle, when the snake nerve writhes with realization so that wonder is reborn accompanied by the music of new knowledge, by the rewards of a past paid for and a future fortified. The maturity of these poems, combined with the poet's belief in the redemptive power of poetry, is a cause for celebration.'
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These poems are, presented as entries in a prisoner's diary, one who is, by implication a prisoner of conscience. These entries, preceded by a brief prelude hinting at recurring themes, represent his thoughts and memories. He does not focus all the time on the daily realities of imprisonment, how could he, and remain sane? He looks back in time, remembering people and places, all the while visited, indeed, illuminated, by a white dove, whose presence...
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Some of these poems reflect the light caught in my daughter's camera during her work in a village community in the Ethiopian Afar. Others are more, random shafts of light caught in the prism of my mind and split into a rainbow of reflections about life and death and the half-world of hopes and dreams that lies between. As is the case with rainbows, they are composed both, of sunshine and drops of rain. I trust that somewhere amongst them you will...
29) The Beguilings
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Enter The Beguilings, a seductive world of striking poems that break through the confines of expectation in love, intimacy and identity. By turns illuminating and provocative, Jessica Raschke's second poetry collection reveals connections and collision points between sensual and spiritual needs. Raschke's writing is testimony to the beautiful truth of emotion and the pleasures of relinquishing control to find release.
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Daniel Neumann was born in England in 1951 of German-born parents, and has lived most of his life in Australia, in Canberra and then in Melbourne, where he works as a psychologist and as a musician. His poems respond to landscapes, texts, paintings, music, and conversations real or imaginary. They inhabit spaces from Australia to ancient Greece, and hear voices ranging from bush hermits to opera; and they speak with a feeling for distance and the...
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Traverse landscapes, ride in a race, cut skylines and paste metaphors on your lips. Melinda Jane's poetical words are as refreshing as a steaming cup. Sip, hold, taste, read these verses in this debut book Nature's Nuptials. And, may the earth suspend you in its net.
Melinda Jane is an Australian author of the children's book The Currawong and the Owl, and has forty individual written works published internationally in anthologies and literature journals....
34) Man Moon Earth
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This collection covers periods in Prithvindra Chakravarti's life and the reflections and insights he gained into the life of the village-dwelling peasants, artisans and entertainers in West Bengal, where he was born; and in his later periods in Kolkata, Chicago, Papua New Guinea, China and the Northern Territory in Australia. The title poem stands out as his signature poem: the juxtaposition of the often, terrible reality of man's earthly dilemma;...
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'Renowned songwriter Joe Dolce has long outgrown the pop lyric and moved into a risky domain where recitative, comedy, folk and slapstick build shelters for themselves among social commentary and the poetry of lists. He has a foot, or feet, in diverse realms serious and entertaining and has resolved that he will never record another song that has not, been first published as a stand-alone poem. No colleague to his knowledge has yet ventured into this...
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Kevin Densley's poetry has been, published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years, including Quadrant, The Adelaide Review, LiNQ, Muse, New England Review, Vernacular, Mattoid, Redoubt, Verandah, Tamba, Space, Other Poetry (UK), The Journal (UK), Cadenza (UK), Monkey Kettle (UK) and Buzzwords (UK). His work has also appeared in two UK anthologies, Miracle and Clockwork: the Best of Other Poetry Series 2 and Now That's What...
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With their seeking out of common ground between strangers, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers, Jane Williams's poems are full of warmth and delight in being alive. Bullies, funerals and 'business as usual' exist here, but so too does the possibility of being 'surprised by joy'. The language is beautifully sparse and understated, hitting home with sudden, images, which are startling and powerful. Begging the Question is a book to keep by the...
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"Whimsy and from the heart, Libby Goodsir's words reflect what is to be human and to be a mother. Madeleine's images perfectly counterpoint Libby's words, adding a thousand new dimensions to the meditation. What a gift!" - Chris Gallagher
"A collection of 'images and words playing with what it is to be human / they asked to be put together'. Blue Pollen Beautiful is the result of a serendipitous collaboration between mother and daughter. Overruling...
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'Jill Gower's poems take us on journeys, back into her own past; into foreign countries; into the natural world of the bush and her garden which she so obviously loves and into the lives of others. Jill can recount a memory, evoke sympathy or capture a particular moment in time with honesty, colorful description or deft haiku. Jill also takes us on trains, and it is within her observations of fellow travelers and travelling companions (the man who...
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