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3rd i
“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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Backtrack
Backtrack, Victorian poet BN Oakman’s third full-length collection with Interactive Press, is a suite of poems created in response to an observed, often baffling, world.
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Coda for Shirley
Highly Commended in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! Coda for Shirley is the sardonic yet poignant sequel to Geoff Page’s successful 2006 verse novel, Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza. The earlier work presented an autumnal romance between an 82 year-old former ‘ladies’ man’ and a 70 year-old widow who attracts his undivided, and unprecedented, loyalty.
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Edge Music
Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes – be they geographical or historical.
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Even Grimmer Tales: Not for the faint-hearted
Adult fairy tales — not for the faint-hearted, indeed! Valerie Volk has transported and adapted many of the classic Brothers Grimm tales into a modern context, demonstrating that the “real” can sometimes be more bizarre and horrific than the imaginary. With witty prose pieces to set the scene and Leszek Hermanowicz’s clever drawings to enhance the mood, each poem becomes a tour de force, demonstrating how these tales still have relevance today. The Brothers would certainly approve!
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Fresh News from the Arctic
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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Hemingway in Spain (2nd ed)
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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Hemingway in Spain Film
In his first film, 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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Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town
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. -
Maisie and The Black Cat Band
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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musefood
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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On Reflection
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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Pentimento
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
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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Second Thoughts
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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Sound and Bundy
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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Stepping Over Seasons
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.