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$16.00 (GST-inc)Basil Eliades is an everyman of art — poet, painter,
performer, and teacher. In his second collection from
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Backtrack
$13.00 (GST-inc)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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Dandelions for Bhabha
$13.00 (GST-inc)Ranging from satire to meditation to philosophy to the comic, Clara Joseph’s second book of poetry, Dandelions for Bhabha, is an intense engagement with philosophers and literary/cultural theorists and their controversial positions. Her poems reflect on the postmodern condition when “The screaming begins at the wall / when one chick is taken” and “Universal Justice is dragged / to Auschwitz.”
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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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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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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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Shades of Exodus
$15.00 (GST-inc)Shades of Exodus, a novel by Barry Levy, Interactive Press, an imprint of IP (Interactive Publications)
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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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Speaking in Tongues
$15.00 (GST-inc)Basil Eliades may have travelled this world, but he has seen other worlds within it. In his travel fiction, we see worlds of profound love, of incredible cities, inhabited by shamans, gods, where physics becomes elastic, where time travels uphill and humans are re-formed.
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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 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 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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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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Unbounded Air: A Collection About Birds and their world
$13.00 (GST-inc)The poems are presented in a loose semblance of order beginning with the signifier poem, Unbounded Air, followed by the shorebird poems noting the urgent need to address their threatened habitat. This environmental theme continues in many of the poems.
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Water Over Stone
$12.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks 2011, Best Poetry.
Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world.
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What did I know
$9.00 (GST-inc)Ranging from the philosophical title piece of the anthology, through medical associations in “Neurosurgery”, to wartime reflections in “Ypres on Boxing Day” to the personal family pieces like “A Note for My Daughter”, this selection of the author’s best work is certain to please the ear.
