Poetry
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Coast Road: Selected Poems by Robert Gray
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‘Journey, the North Coast’, ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’, ‘Harbour Dusk’, ‘Byron Bay:
Winter’, ‘Description of a Walk’, ‘24 Poems’Robert Gray is one of Australia’s most acclaimed poets. Among his many prizes are the Patrick White Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, and the Australia Council’s Writer’s Emeritus Award for lifetime achievement.
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Contemporary Asian Australian Poets by Adam Aitken (Editor), Kim Cheng Boey (Editor), Michelle Cahill (Editor)
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Merlinda Bobis, ‘This is where it begins’; Miriam Wei Wei Lo, ‘Home’; Ouyang Yu, ‘New
Accents’; Vuong Pham, ‘Mother’; Jaya Savige, ‘Circular Breathing’; Maureen Ten (Ten
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Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
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‘Trance’, ‘Unearth’, ‘Oombulgarri’, ‘Eyes’, ‘Leaves’, ‘Key’
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.
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Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
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‘Wild Grapes’, ‘Gulliver’, ‘Out of Time’, ‘Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden’,
‘William Street’, ‘Beach Burial’The definitive collection of work from one of Australia’s preeminent twentieth century poets, Kenneth Slessor, drawing from his acclaimed books, Earth Visitors (1926), Cuckooz Contrey (1932) and Five Bells (1939).
this selection was first published as One Hundred Poems in 1944 (with the addition of three further poems in 1957), and includes an introduction by Dennis Haskell and an Author’s Note.
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Rosemary Dobson Collected by Rosemary Dobson
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‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Over the Hill’, ‘Summer’s End’, ‘The Conversation’, ‘Cock Crow’,
‘Amy Caroline’, ‘Canberra Morning’The Collected Works of an Australian Literary Luminary Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most important poets. This volume celebrates her long and distinguished career, bringing together a vast and striking body of work.