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Stitching Things Together
$12.00 (GST-inc)This collection travels well, from the author’s engagement with science as a medical practitioner to her appreciation and penetration of the Holocaust, to the issues facing contemporary Jews and the State of Israel and her experiences as a migrant to Australia.
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Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky
$13.00 (GST-inc)Written over seven years, Jules Leigh Koch’s latest collection depicts people living between pension day and charity. Fringe dwellers whose lives are constructed like origami cranes: defiant, yet quite fragile.
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The Accidental Cage
$25.00 (GST-inc)The Accidental Cage explores the perceptual and emotional experience of entrapment in its many forms.
Exile, asylum, desire, love and motherhood all enter the speaker’s imagination, often transformed by the force of resistance.
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The Dark Cracks of Kemang
$16.00 (GST-inc)That old childhood saying ‘pick what you want from the tree of life’ simply not working anymore? Becoming a foreigner in Indonesia might be as good a stab at something new and rewarding, as anything…
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The Divining Rod
$13.00 (GST-inc)An earthy second collection from Andrew Hubbard, whose work divines the poetic from things ordinary, recalling the lyrical mastery of Frost. His words trill with birdsong and sparkle with the first touch of sunrise on a waking forest.
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The Face of the Other
$13.00 (GST-inc)An evocative and thought-provoking collection of poetry that reveals more to the reader with each reread. Clara Joseph covers a wide range of themes and ideas whilst tying them all together under the repeating image of the face, seen from many different angles and in different guises.
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The Fickle Pendulum
$13.00 (GST-inc)The Fickle Pendulum assays belief and doubt through three historical figures – St. Thomas the Apostle, Galileo Galilei and Laura (Riding) Jackson – and uses them to pivot into wider thematic worlds The writing is thoughtful, exploratory and never weighed down by its subject matter, and the language vibrant and rich in metaphor.
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The gleaming clouds
$12.00 (GST-inc)Murray Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This harmonises with his Buddhist outlook on life.
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The Moorings: a poetry workshop collection
$13.00 (GST-inc)Together, they have explored forms and themes and triggered ideas for each other. You will find poems following the unusual Golden Shovel form through to three on tomatoes … and much else beside.
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The Possibility of Winds
$25.00 (GST-inc)“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
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The Postcult Heart
$13.00 (GST-inc)On the eve of her wedding, a mother hands her daughter an unpublished manuscript—a collection of love poems—written by the famous writer and matriarch of the family, Booker Makepeace. Booker had bequeathed the manuscript to her own daughter three decades earlier on the eve of her wedding before she disappeared. What do they mean, these snapshots of love? Are the poems instructions? Warnings? Documentaries? Clues? Lies? Revelations? Lovesongs?
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The Power of Women
$13.00 (GST-inc)While women account for 50% of the population they only occupy around 0.5% of recorded history. When pre-history turned into history, and, as new civilisations expanded, society became more militarised, and the story of “humanity” was often filtered through male perspectives. So the tales of many strong and powerful women became stifled and forgotten.
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The Screaming Middle: a memoir in verse of a very strange year
$13.00 (GST-inc)The Screaming Middle is a memoir of a very strange year, the year of turning 50 for one woman who forgot to have a party. This confessional verse novel takes you on road trips, into psych wards, into the chambers of marriage and through epic failures, brilliant ideas and back to kingdoms of chaos and castles of hilarity.
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The Snow in Us (2nd ed)
$13.00 (GST-inc)In 1984, David Reiter began a journey of discovery well above the Arctic Circle. Rather than an expedition requiring physical strength and endurance, this was one of artistic exploration. David lived for several weeks with one of Canada’s First People, the Inuit, well before their sovereignty was recognised by the federal government.
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The Stars Like Sand
$13.00 (GST-inc)Highly Commended, 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, Best Poetry Book.
Following up on our award-winning Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, IP has released an anthology of even wider scope showcasing the best in Australian speculative poetry from early times to the present.
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The Taste of Apple
$11.99 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2010
Pedro Jones is lost. Abandoned by his father and forced into commission housing with his Filipino immigrant mother, the future seems bleak.
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Things That Get You
$12.00 (GST-inc)Things That Get You is a philosophical approach to the essential questions of life. It dives into ideas of life and mortality and muses on the connections between humanity and nature.
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Thirsting for Lemonade
$12.00 (GST-inc)In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures – the neither here nor there, the neither in nor out. It is indeed a world where ‘Home is a relative term’.
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Time Lords Remixed: a Dr Who Poetical
$13.00 (GST-inc)Arguably the most literary of science fiction shows, Dr Who has adapted its time lords and cast of companions and alien threats to audiences across the globe for more than 50 years.
In Time Lords Remixed unapologetic Whovian and digital artist David P. Reiter reimagines the voices of time lords, especially Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker, through a poetic and image remix that spans 50 episodes and includes associative internet links that build on his Western Australian Premier’s Award-winning title Timelord Dreaming.
