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Flaubert’s Drum
$11.99 (GST-inc)Sugu Pillay’s thought provoking work shifts effortlessly between New Zealand – with a seamless integration of Maori themes – and Asian locales, especially India, but is also informed by classical thinkers and artists. A challenging read, with its allusiveness, but one with rewards for those open to its startling juxtapositions and time warps.
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Fresh News from the Arctic
$24.00 (GST-inc)Highly Commended, IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry.
Resonant and delicate, Fresh News from the Arctic offers a finely wrought sensibility which elevates the subtle topography of life’s quiet events. 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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Furniture Is Disappearing
$13.00 (GST-inc)Starkly unaware of herself and struggling to make the passage from child to adult, the narrator in this collection points the finger, repeatedly exposes her heart and wonders why things just never seem to work out. Join her flirtations with strangers, intoxicating relationships and explorations to the edge of the void.
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Harmonic
$25.00 (GST-inc)Harmonic brings together the strengths of Oliver’s poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic expression. Yet in many respects he is the philosopher-poet. In this book, Oliver displays a depth of thought, and a range of perception rarely found in contemporary Australasian poetry.
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Hemingway in Spain (2nd ed)
$12.00 (GST-inc)The source book for the film Hemingway in Spain, this hybrid work melds several Hemingway “voices”, the author, the “Hemingway Hero”, and the author projecting the Hemingway consciousness and aesthetic on a contemporary Spanish landscape.
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In Between the Dancing
$12.00 (GST-inc)This 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 on the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. In Between the Dancing was the winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award.”
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In My Days and In My Sleep
$12.00 (GST-inc)Rebecca Kylie Law’s poems reflect her views as a practising Catholic while contemplating subjects ranging from nature and love to philosophy and social history. She captures elements of the creation — flowers, animals, birds, trees — so their beauty can be brought to the ecstatic in accordance with the unity of the Trinity.
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Invaders of the Heart
$25.00 (GST-inc)What happens when people are called to follow new and unusual tracks, whether physical or in the mind? The secrets and motives behind the story are what interest Lee Knowles.
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Jest the Funny Bits
$16.00 (GST-inc)Jest the Funny Bits is a collection of Bill’s comic poems, plays and short stories. He had a lot of fun writing them and he really hopes you have fun reading them. However, spoiler alert, they’re not for everyone. If you’re a humourless sour grumpy-pants, whose face would split in two if you attempted to smile or laugh, then, whatever you do, don’t read this book!
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Just Off Message: a 20th Anniversary Anthology
$16.00 (GST-inc)From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP.
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Kiss and Tell
$26.00 (GST-inc)Much awaited Selected and New from one of Australiaâ’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.
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Leaving New Jersey
$12.00 (GST-inc)This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not plan to stay. It is a tale of unsettling and resettling, of leaving as an ongoing process. Each micro-scene is a snapshot of time and place — spanning decades and moments, continents and conversations, wars, dreams and kitchen tables — to capture the psychological and spatial tensions between “here” and “there”. Leaving New Jersey is a lyrical re-experiencing of putting down roots and tearing them up, an extraordinary poetic account of an ordinary woman’s quest for home.
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Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town
$12.00 (GST-inc)Heather Taylor Johnson’s poetry captures the immediacy of a crisp Rocky Mountains landscape and the moments of intimacy we wish we could freeze-frame.
This is a celebration of clean air, snow and sunflowers, and a home divided between two continents, but it’s mostly about the vibrancy and transforming power of love. -
Letters We Never Sent
$25.00 (GST-inc)In this collection, Reiter extends his experiments with “fusion poetry” to focus on Paul Gauguin, who spent years in Tahiti musing on the fate of artists, especially Vincent Van Gogh, with whom he’d had a stormy relationship at Arles, France.
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Liquefaction
$25.00 (GST-inc)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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Maisie and The Black Cat Band
$12.00 (GST-inc)E. A. Gleeson has that rare talent of lifting a moment of intimacy into the realm of universal truth, of capturing instances of recollection and infusing them with emotion and thoughtful language where every word gleams.
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Men Briefly Explained
$12.00 (GST-inc)Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general.
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minorphysics
$25.00 (GST-inc)This collection of poems delivers astute social commentary on contemporary Australian life that’s compelling, insightful and funny all at the same time.
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Moonrise over the siding
$13.00 (GST-inc)This masterful collection of tanka features the work of Hazel Hall in collaboration with other leading practitioners of the form: Beverley George, Carole Harrison, Carol Judkins, Mary Kendall, Kathy Kituai and David Terelinck. Sit back, breathe slowly in and out, sip your cup of green tea… and enjoy!
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More Lies
$13.00 (GST-inc)More Lies is a highly referential comedy thriller about a writer being held hostage in their own apartment and forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big time ambitions.
