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Phil
Brown brings a sharp journalistic eye to subjects ranging from his childhood
in Hong Kong to Brisbane. Streetwise and accessible, these are poems confronting
everyday experience with insight and enticing wit. “An idiosyncratic
and engaging collection of poems that is fresh and wonderfully liberating.”
— Ross Fitzgerald |
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“Alive
with wisecracks, broad jokes, puns, (‘making his bed out of procrustination’)
as it moves through rhetorical high and low styles to portray mood
swings between ‘negative optimism’ and cheerful melancholic
openness to life.” – Michael Sharkey |
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On Reflection, David Musgrave,
IP, 2005.
PB: ISBN 1876819278
88 pp., $23. |
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Jack performs the classic bush poems of greats like Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, Will Ogilvie, and C J Dennis. An excellent reference work for schools and to be enjoyed by lovers of bush poetry everywhere. |
Australian Bush Poetry Classics, Jack Drake
ed., Restless Music 2010. ISBN 9780957847767,
Audio
CD, $25. |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2002, Best Poetry by a Queensland Author. “Brett Dionysius
has chronicled urban and rural life, aligning myth and truth with an uncompromising
lyrical seriousness.” — Anthony Lawrence |
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Gauguin
and van Gogh reflect on their stormy relationship at Arles, which may
have contributed to Vincent's suicide. A multimedia production based
on the sell-out Brisbane live performance. |
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Paul and Vincent,
David P Reiter, IPD, 2004. CD:
ISBN 1876819588 $25. |
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The
third CD from the star of the Tamworth Music Festival’s annual Sex,
Lies and Bush Poetry event. “Whoever
it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have
had Jack Drake in mind.” — Bruce Simpson |
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Rowbotham
has continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that
transcends single continents and cultures. This book is certain to earn
him that elusive literary Oscar. “Should
be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.”
— David
Gilbey |
Bronco Harry’s Last Ride,
Jack Drake, IPS, 2005. Audio CD: ISBN 0957847750, $25.
iTunes Store samples |
Poems for America, David
Rowbotham, IP, 2002.
PB:
ISBN 1876819111
96 pp., $22. |
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Commended,
Best Poetry, IP Picks 2003. Jenni Nixon’s
book is a journey of salvage through some hard lessons and difficult times,
told in a way that is atmospheric and immediate, often with a wry twist.
— Jill
Jones |
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Almost
in the same breath, poet Liam Ferney tackles the legend of Babe Ruth,
the neon jungle of Surfer's Paradise, and the pathos of Monet. |
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Popular Mechanics, Liam
Ferney, IP, 2004. PB:
ISBN 1876819219
80 pp., $23. |
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“These are poems that engage the senses, challenge the intellect, and
fire the imagination. They explore the mystery of what we are and our perpetual
quest for communion.”
— Alex Skovron |
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The Best of IP 10th Anniversary Celebration CD, with nearly
400 pages of fiction, poetry, multimedia, podcasts, even a movie trailer
from some of the finest authors working in Australia today. |
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Rainshadows, David P Reiter,
ed., IP Digital, 2007.
Mac/Windows
CD-ROM, $27. |
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“A
wild ride of angels, monsters, slapstick and pop. In this not so divine comedy
actress Isabella Rosselini becomes Leggett’s post-modern Beatrice. A
book that begins and ends with angels and recalls the spirit of Yeats’ Crazy
Jane.”
– Craig Powell. |
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One of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War. ITold from the perspectives of Iraquis and Americans alike, it's a collection that expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world. |
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Ruin, Roberta Lowing, IP, 2010.
PB:
ISBN 9781921479434
120 pp, $25 |
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A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the FourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight.
David Gilbey's poetry mines a rich seam of wit—something increasingly rare in Australian verse.
– Peter Kirkpatrick |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2004, Best Poetry.
“With
great sensitivity and compassion Nora Krouk faces and speaks of the
personal demons of her
Russian-Jewish background.” — Peter
Boyle |
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Skin for Comfort, Nora
Krouk, IP, 2004. PB: ISBN 1876819235
136 pp., $24 |
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Dinkum
performance verse from a country Queensland legend. “Whoever
it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have
had Jack Drake in mind.” — Bruce Simpson |
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Commended,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry.
Judge takes the reader through a whirlwind of contradictions and chaos, and then suddenly slows to embrace life’s quieter moments. The effect is powerful, chilling and unforgettable. |
Dinkum Poetry, Jack Drake,
IPS, 2002. Audio CD:
ISBN 0957847726, $25
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Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish,
Hal Judge, 2007.
PB: ISBN 9781876819712
78 pp., $24. Release date: 15 November 2007. |
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Jocelyn
is a poet’s poet – a true singer steeped in mysticism and literature.
In creative abandonment she lives in the language that grows in silence
and she also knows the Dark Night.
— Margaret Diesendorf |
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Stepping over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook’, Capes argues that it’s much easier for great poets to romanticise the world’s most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown. |
Distant Horizons, Jocelyn Ortt-Saeed, Stillpoint
Books, 2004, HB, 216 pp, ISBN
9698812008, $35; PB, $24. |
Stepping Over Seasons, Ashley Capes, IP, 2009.
PB: ISBN 9781921479328
62 pp., $25. |
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This
is writing that celebrates the art in science and the science in art. Frankenstein's
bathtub will give you 'at last a word / for the thing [you] could
never name.’ “[Her] poems show us new ways of seeing ourselves
and the world.”
— Deb Westbury |
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Highly Commended,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. Kathy Kituai’s tanka journal steers the reader through joyful and sorrowful meditations on her life between two winters.The journal that emerges is drenched in a deep love of nature, and imbued with a searching, insightful sense of the human condition. |
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Straggling into Winter,
Kathy Kituai, 2007.
PB: ISBN 9781876819699
88 pp., $24. Release date: 15 November 2007. |
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Winner, Anne Elder Award; and Somerset Poetry Prize; Highly Commended, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2006. Resonant
and delicate, this
is a collection that investigates the human experience, parting the veil
of the mundane to reveal passion, beauty, myth and mystery. |
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Harmonic brings together the strengths of Oliver’s poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic expression.
In this book, Oliver displays a depth of thought, and a range of perception rarely found in contemporary Australasian poetry. |
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Two steamy collections from Queensland’s tropical
coast: Louise Waller’s Slipway and Kristin Hannaford’s Inhale.
“Their poetry shares a similar celebration of love and family, as
well as in detailed description and the joys of being immersed in nature.”
— Gig
Ryan. |
Harmonic, Stephen Oliver, IP, 2008.PB:ISBN 9781876819743 $24. |
Swelter, Louise Waller
and Kristin Hannaford, IP, 2003.
PB:
ISBN 1876819146
104 pp., $23; Audio
+ Text CD/CD-ROM,
ISBN 187681957X, 2004, $22. |
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Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. “The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging
just to trip you up if you become complacent.” — Bev Braune, Australian
Book Review. |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2006, Best First Book. “Elegant
meditations on freedom and entrapment, desire and restriction. They canvass
a broad geographical, intellectual and emotional range, and are memorable
for their resonant combinations of words.”— Michael Sharkey |
Hemingway in Spain: poems and images,
David P Reiter, IP, 2nd edition, 2007. ISBN 9781876819828 124pp,
$25. |
The Accidental
Cage,
Michelle Cahill, IP, 2006. New printing now available. PB:
ISBN 9781876819392
72 pp., $24. |
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In his first DVD, multi-award winning
author David P Reiter makes a time traveller of the legend. Hemingway’s
on a quest for his arch-enemy Franco, during the Spanish Civil War, but he
also meets up with famous people
from the past and future who have shocking things to say about war, love
and art. |
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Winner
of the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award. “Reiter's
line is smoothly flowing... [his] attitude is of confident external observation...[his]
voice is youthful and excited about the world.” — Ken Goodwin,
Australian Book Review. |
Hemingway in Spain, David P Reiter, IPD, 2006. DVD-R, 125 minutes. ISBN 9781876819866 Available in PAL or NTSC versions (please specify), $40. |
The Cave After Saltwater Tide,
David P Reiter. Penguin, 1994. Sold out, but a sizeable selection is now
available in Kiss and
Tell. |
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Performance poetry with a bite from
the Bush Poet of the Year 2001! His
love of words and verse started when his father gave him a copy of Banjo
Patterson’s verses when he was 10 years old. |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2003, Best Poetry. “Rich
with a sensuality and love of language that invests both myth and the modern
day with vibrancy and beauty.” — Peter McFarlane |
The Cattledog’s
Revenge, Jack Drake, IPS, 2001. Audio
CD, $25.
iTunes Store samples |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry.“Whether addressing issues
such as racism, homophobia and terrorism, or turning a wickedly
scathing eye on the failings of writers and other misfits, Paul
Dawson’s poems are angry and unforgettable.” — from
the Judges’ Report,
IP Picks 2006 |
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Mansell
is lively and very much her own poet, at her best when her observations
are sharpest, emotionally
frank and pungent enough to surprise. And that is often. — Philip Salom |
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The Fickle Brat,
Chris Mansell, IPD, 2002. Audio + Text CD-ROM/CD:
ISBN 1876819529 $22. |
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Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. |
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With a witty conversational tone and accessible verse, B N Oakman takes on topics ranging from Socio-economic to the personal – the ekphrastic to football – the political to the historical. |
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Highly Commended, 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Accomplished poetry from a veteran poet. Takes us to such diverse destinations as the Abrolhos Islands off WA, a coal mining region, the Hunter, NSW, and a remote New Zealand tidal river valley. This poetry looks at paths of human endeavour and its traps. |
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Reiter
completed this work while in residence at the prestigious Banff Centre
for the Arts. An adaptation of his poetry collection, Letters
We Never Sent, it's
a ground-breaking work of interactive, literary multimedia that will
shed new light on the possibilities for poetry. |
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The Gallery,
David P Reiter, IPD, 2000.
CD: ISBN 187681943X, $27.50.
Includes e-book of Letters
We Never Sent. |
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A brilliant collaboration of words and music between tanka artist Kathy Kituai and composer/musician Nitya Bernard Parker based on Kathy's poetry book Straggling into Winter. |
| The Heart Takes Wing, Kathy Kituai & Nitya Bernard Parker, IPD, 2008. DVD, ISBN 9781921479120 $25. |
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Mitchell
uses his formidable reading skills so that the listener is thirsting for
what comes next. Buttler employs music styles at times so familiar to us
they act as another image in the poem. — Garth
Madsen |
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Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Poetry at the cutting edge of contemporary writing. Works from ‘artesian memories of the Australian desert to the shifting territory of the gods in rural Pakistan’ |
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Lia Hills, IP, Release date: 30 November 2008.ISBN 9781921479076. 72 pp, $25 |
Jumbuktu, Paul Mitchell and
Bill Buttler, IPS, 2005. Spoken Word / Music CD: ISBN 9781876819873 $25.
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Commended,
IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry. “This
is a world wonderfully changed by Huisman’s
fine observation, playful intelligence and true feeling. Her poetry gives
us what we need: it helps us recognise ourselves even as it constantly
surprises us. A pleasure to read—and read again.” — Noel Rowe |
The Possibility of Winds,
Rosemary Huisman, IP, 2006.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819330
72 pp, $24. |
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“These are poems that go beyond the limits
of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd i, by engaging with them,
the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything.
This is heroic poetry.”
— John Marsden |
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Stephen Oliver’s voice resonates with strength and passion. With the highly original music of Matt Ottley this CD transports us across soundscapes of harmony and disharmony, life and death, peace and violence. |
| King Hit,Stephen Oliver (words), Matt Ottley (music), IPD, 2007.Audio + textCD-ROM/CD:ISBN 9781876819705 $25 |
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Much
awaited Selected and New from one of Australia’s most exciting and
innovative authors. His imagination resists
cultural razor wire by composing without a passport, accepting no subject
as off-limits. And this multi-award winning author more often sets the
trends these days rather than following them. |
3rd i.
Basil Eliades, IP, 2006.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819323
80 pp, $24, Audio + Text CD/CD-ROM: ISBN 9781876819644,
$25. |
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With heartbreaking clarity, and using grammar as her springboard, Waugh leaps between/into buildings, stops for the
death of a bee then soars over a fence and off the page before returning to a Lithgow childhood. Amidst the destruction, dignity and despair of our culpable world this book is a bell.
– Les Wicks |
towards a grammar of being,
Julie Waugh, IP, 2009.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819243
64 pp,
$25
Release date: 15 August, 2009. |
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Landscapes are created and figures emerge from those landscapes to inhabit them. They are meant to grow from inside and surface gradually. The life-force of the poems - the images, impressions, the archetypal moments - are left to sink even deeper into the unconsciousness. |
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Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world - as well as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction. |
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Voyagers, edited by Mark Pirie & Tim Jones, Interactive Press 2009.
PB:
ISBN 9781921479212
184 pp, $25.95
Release date: 15 May, 2009. |
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The
fourth collection by one of Queensland’s most respected poets. “There is real pleasure
here — these poems enjoy life but are astute to
its play of meanings. The poems grow on you...in their
surprising textual metaphysics.” — Philip
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Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. O’Flynn’s poems wander between the urban and the rural, childhood and adulthood, the mundane and the bizarre, holding up shards of memory to the light for inspection. Intelligent, searching, poignant, and frank, these poems make for compelling reading. |
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What Can Be Proven,
Mark O'Flynn, IP, 2007.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819668
72 pp, $24.
Release date: 15 November 2007 |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2003, Best Poetry. “If poems
were nails I would want Paul Mitchell to build my house. His poems are straight,
simple in design, gleaming with insight — and they’re sharp.” — Kevin
Brophy |
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Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best First Book. The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is a sensuously layered and intriguing meditation on the past that offers a sense of connectedness and hope for the future. |
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With One Brush,
Jan Dean, IP, 2007.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819675
72 pp, $24.
Release date: 15 November 2007 |
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Winner, IP Picks 2009, Best Poetry Award. Wings of the Same Bird is an impressive collection grown from the mythological idea linking birds and the human world with divine realms just beyond ordinary experience. |
Wings of the Same Bird,
Lorraine McGuigan, IP, 2009. PB:
ISBN 9781921479359
76 pp, $25. |
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