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Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection, written over a twenty-five-year period, speaks about the perplexity of simple things: love, death, longing, friendship, hope. Its voice is human, fallible, and incomplete. It's about the journey and the dreaming; it's about lives as precious and fragile as fine china.
Christopher Nailer was born in New Zealand. He is married to Helen,...
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In this wise, witty and moving story, fifteen-year-old Lucy arrives from inner-city Melbourne to live on a farm in the early 1980s. Wandong hosts the second largest truck and country music festival in the southern hemisphere…and nothing else.
'It is rare to find a story that takes us into that liminal territory of adolescence with such force and such heart. Desire, disappointment, betrayal and forgiveness written in libretto, an ode to the tumult...
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Relationships with people, places, objects and the self are at the heart of poet James Milenkovic's latest collection, Eternity or Equivalent. Through fragmented moments and more studied reflections, these poems give glimpses into 'the intricacies and circulatory entanglements we share'. As in his earlier volume, Salt and Petals, visions of nature are both vivid and vital, yet equally strong are the more introspective pieces that investigate identity...
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Life is simple and I strongly believe the most worthwhile things in life are free. An emotional person with a passionate love for nature, a keen sense of adventure and a zest for life, living most of the time in a self-confessed dream world, I have recorded impressions of a few of my thoughts and reactions to life around me.
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'Pat Lee's poetry often reflects her respect and reverence for the things of the natural world. She has an artist's eye for landscape and a Wordsworthian ability to paint it in lyric poetry. Many of her images and word choices have an inevitability about them, a surety that is enviable. Hers is a poetic voice that is true and trustworthy.' – Louise Nicholas
'Pat Lee's Nudge the Morning is a collection of poetry I found to be the work of the natural...
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Dissent can be a good thing, unless you are killed for it. We live in a world of social fissuring and disruption, where families and nations are stressed by the contexts we live in. Globally, we are witnessing the biggest population movement ever known. This is interlinked with the causes and effects of massive changes in climate, which is causing unresolvable tensions around water and land access, citizenship and poverty. Armed conflict, fear, persecution...
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In Montparnasse between the wars, Kiki, 'Queen of Montparnasse', danced and sang; Prévert created Baptiste there; Desnos traveled astrally, then woke to harvest the crop; painters- Kisling, Pascin, Foujita, Modigliani, Derain and others, labored and partied there; Bronia came from Holland, destined to meet Radiguet, Cocteau's Boy Wonder; later she would, marry René Clair; Satie opened umbrellas there, always hoping for rain. There are triumphs,...
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"If stillness can be tasted, precious memories will return, such as poetry once learned by heart, which in Maurice Whelan's case told of King Arthur receiving his sword Excalibur from the maiden in the lake. If silence can be heard, a poetry in life will breathe, as in this poet's observation about a dawn which '…holds / its perfection/as long/as you hold your breath'. As contrast to a hurried world, Maurice finds a treasury in stillness – Gaelic...
12) The Lilac Bow
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The Lilac Bow is the first book of poetry by the author of the collections Excalibur's Return, A Season and a Time and, most recently, Spirit Eyes. Maurice Whelan is also the author of the acclaimed novel Boat People.
13) Extravagance
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Extravagance is Irene Wilkie's second collection. Throughout, she demonstrates a delight in the natural world and its inhabitants. At the same time, she treats, often with a wry humor, the more serious aspects of growing older, loss and environmental concerns. There is strong enquiry with empathy into the dilemma of humankind in the face of a vast and mindless universe, a question lightened by colour in the visual and the aural image...
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The earliest poems I produced were fierce jabs at the many things that irritated me about the world in which I now lived. Some of them have survived in the section of this volume that I've called Aspirational Lifestyles. Others (Nacht und Nebel) were responses to the harsh beauty of the upper Blue Mountains, where my wife and I have lived for the past seventeen years. An increasing number (Dream Country) took their inspiration from the cinema of the...
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Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave, the flight of cockatoos 'yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers' ('Black Cockatoos'). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging, 'my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound healed up' ('The Bridge at Csíkrákos') and presents them to the reader with wonder, honesty and freshness.
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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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"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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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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'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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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....
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