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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.
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musefood
$12.00 (GST-inc)Winner of the 2012 IP Picks Best Poetry Award, musefood is modern, savvy and sharp-tongued verse at its best.
Ruckert’s musings on women in contemporary life explore a subject not often visited through verse. What could have easily been flighty or frivolous is instead a witty and honest social commentary, intertwined with varying shades of comedy and poignancy.
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Never Good at Maths
$13.00 (GST-inc)Never Good at Maths is a collection of contrasts and voices, ruminating on the everyday, our global, and personal passions. Except Maths. (Spoiler Alert) Kate Maxwell’s passion for Maths is not a topic explored in any tangible way. But her poems are delicate and gritty, whimsical, sharp, even if decidedly unnumeric.
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Night’s Glass Table
$11.99 (GST-inc)The poems in Night’s Glass Table are tight and emotionally powerful, and deal with themes such as death, grief and love.
Zelas chooses her words with care, and her poems are always eloquent and evocative. She demonstrates a sound use of conventions, and her writing is well-crafted and technically excellent.
Night’s Glass Table won the 2012 IP Picks Best First Book Award.
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Oh My Rapture
$13.00 (GST-inc)In Oh My Rapture, Gemma White draws on her own lived experiences with bipolar, and her attempts to transcend it through the power of her imagination and the creation of art. Entwined throughout the poems in this collection are allusions to themes in The Red Hand Files, as every poem is a direct response to a different file.
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On Reflection
$25.00 (GST-inc)This evocative collection sets poems side by side with prose poems that help enlarge the frame of reference for the author’s subjects.
The collection follows a young poet through his daily life, and the poem’s subtitle of a Twenty-Twenty Vision is an apt description of the two sides of story we see – both the creative, poetic side and the prose poetry fact side.
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Outer Space, Inner Minds
$13.00 (GST-inc)Even more so, they have speculated on the celestial objects that we can see with a naked eye and those beyond the reach of our most powerful telescopes and space probes. We continue ask is there life beyond our fragile atmosphere, our solar system, our galaxy—or are we alone, a cosmic accident in an otherwise lifeless universe? And, if other lifeforms do exist on moons or distant exoplanets elsewhere, what form/s does it take? Is it intelligent, more or less so than we humans are?
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Pentimento
$13.00 (GST-inc)If you are the only one capable of saving the world, would a hedgehog be your go-to solution? Should you commit seppuku simply because you feel at home everywhere? How much trouble could you be in, if you imagine that most people you meet are your concubines? What if you find out that God occasionally indulges in writing dirty poems? These questions seem absurd. However, before passing judgment, you might discover the surprising poetic resolutions that Daniel Ionita proposes in this volume.
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Poems for America
$25.00 (GST-inc)One of the last key volumes from a major Australia poet, reflecting on time he spent in the USA. Rowbotham continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. “Should be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.” — David Gilbey
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Poetry Leaves
$13.00 (GST-inc)Japanese people cherish the tanka form as much now as they did in ancient times. And for English-speaking people, this anthology will provide an excellent way of experiencing tanka as English poetry.
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Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology
$15.00 (GST-inc)A new trilingual book brings together some of the most important and exciting Mapuche poets from Chile.
Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology is a remarkable collection of poetry in Mapudugun, Spanish and English that explores Mapuche culture and literature and negotiates its space in the national Chilean and global context.
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Rhymes and Reasons
$25.00 (GST-inc)Rhymes and Reasons is a collection of counterpointed prose reflections and poems by New Zealand author Yvonne Dinkelbach. Wide ranging in its subject matter and locality, Dinkelbach’s work is thought-provoking and always accessible.
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Rock at the Roadside
$13.00 (GST-inc)There is peace to be found in gardens and many tanka dotted throughout this collection illustrate how Saeko—who is living on the banks of a lake—is inspired by her environment.
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Ruin
$12.00 (GST-inc)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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Second Thoughts
$12.00 (GST-inc)B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood.
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Small Acts of Purpose
$13.00 (GST-inc)In her third collection from Interactive Press, E. A. Gleeson casts her poetic eye as far afield as Belfast or as close to home as her own mortality.
In an assured but always personal voice, she addresses the everyday, the exotic and even the taboo with immersive detail, challenging the reader to reflect on the elemental issues of modern existence.
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Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish
$24.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Sound and Bundy
$25.00 (GST-inc)Inspired by the Ern Malley affair, Sound and Bundy takes a new approach to the verse novel format. Presenting the works of four fictional poets in anthology form, it invites readers to draw together disparate accounts and to create their own conclusions as to what “really†happened.
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Staying Whole While Falling Apart
$13.00 (GST-inc)Staying Whole While Falling Apart celebrates troubled all-rounder, Aaron Auslander, as he strives to find meaning and shape his identity in the midst of too many influences. Love and parenthood complicate matters, and Aaron has to find creative ways to rally and stay whole.
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Stepping Over Seasons
$12.00 (GST-inc)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.
