Borderlands Riding the Slipstream by Paul Collins (ed.)
29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
A smorgasbord of original stories, poems and art by leading Australian authors, poets and illustrators Age range 11+Borderlands — Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old.Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia’s best-loved authors — including Ursula Dubo ...Show more
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry by John; Ryan Kinsella
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
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 def ...Show more
Axolotl Waltz by Nathan Shepherdson
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
i’d be lying if i was telling the truth In axolotl waltz, Nathan Shepherdson steers a rusty trolley with its wobbly wheel as he haunts the aisles in the Supermarket of Casual Koans (SOCK). What he can’t find, he invents, or at other times puts items back he bought months ago, on their same shelf, unopen ...Show more
Circadia by Judith Bishop
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Perched on a tablecloth with glassesfor a summer drink- life, on its hauncheslike a kitten, thoughtful.Extending a paw- What happens if?Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve t ...Show more
If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears by Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears is the second full-length collection from award-winning poet Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon.Exploring one the most personal and politically charged experiences in many women’s lives — motherhood — this collection of poems was born within the vortex of America’s ch ...Show more
Song in the Grass by Kate Fagan
27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
New collection by prize-winning singer, songwriter and poet Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan’s most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives ...Show more
Stradbroke Dreamtime: Deluxe Edition by Oodgeroo Nunukul, B Bancroft
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Stradbroke Dreamtime is a collection of 27 short stories, ideal for reading in class, from acclaimed Aboriginal author Oodgeroo. the stories are traditional Aboriginal tales from Stradbroke Island, the tambourine Mountains and from the Old and New dreamtime. A bright, beautiful and unique colour illustr ...Show more
Birds by Judith Wright
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Judith Wright (1915—2000) was one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel prize. Her volume Birds was first published in 1962, and 60 years on the National Library of Australia is proud to be bringing this precious collection to today’s audience in this m ...Show more
Frank by Jordie Albiston
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Frank, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albisto ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...Show more
Exactly As I Am by Rae White
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, discrimination, and euphoria. Let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways. Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Th ...Show more
Nothing to Declare by Mags Webster
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Alive, passionate and on the move - these poems range through words of wide reading, inner and outer journeying, through both the historic and the personal past and present, the fleshly and the vegetal. Always alert to "terrible Aphrodite" in their swing between blazon and contreblazon, they make "pause ...Show more