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3rd i
$24.00 (GST-inc)“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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$16.00 (GST-inc)Basil Eliades is an everyman of art — poet, painter,
performer, and teacher. In his second collection from
IP, he exerts his creative talents with dazzling scope
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A world without maps
$13.00 (GST-inc)In poems that range from the minimalist to the theatrical, Jane Simpson evokes the fascinatingly unfamiliar world of the Arabian Peninsula, where she found her preconceptions about Muslim women completely shattered. She writes of home and family with great tenderness.
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Afterglow
$13.00 (GST-inc)Afterglow is a poetry of love born, lost and then regained. With meticulous and lyric detail, Laura Jan Shore examines her relationship with her husband from a myriad of angles like a painter contemplating the lifelines of her subject, conveying deeply felt emotion but without the shorthand of sentimentality. This is about love that endures beyond the confines of mortal time. By the author of Water Over Stone.
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Amethysts and Emeralds
$13.00 (GST-inc)Amethysts and Emeralds is a selection of Daniel King’s award-winning poetry, much of which has been published in journals around the world. The poems embrace a wide variety of forms, from free verse to sonnet, roundel, villanelle, and sestina.
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Cards on the Table
$13.00 (GST-inc)Ranging from quick-fire questions for us to ponder to provocative longer works drawing on classical themes, this highly entertaining collection will surprise and inspire with its wit and honesty.
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Convent Mermaid
$12.00 (GST-inc)Rod Usher’s third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
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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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Dark Sky Dreamings: an Inland Skywriters Anthology
$16.01 (GST-inc)When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? You might be situated in a city, or its sprawling suburbs, where the ever-present urban glow tends to keep your gaze horizontal, missing out on the beckoning mysteries of the Universe.
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Days Like These
$12.00 (GST-inc)From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams’ keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
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Death and the Motorway
$12.00 (GST-inc)A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the fourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight.
Several poems deal with David’s experiences of life in Japan and the tensions between a busy academic life and the urge to create poetry.
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Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls
$13.00 (GST-inc)What do a poet and a potter have in common?
Isn’t the daily task of working with clay, be it plugging, glazing or trimming pots ready to be fired in the kiln much the same as writing zero drafts in a journal and moulding these entries into poetry for publication?
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Designs on the Body
$12.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2010
designs on the body recalls the rich sensuality merging with spirit of Rumi but with a contemporary take on intimacy.
Reeves’ poetry has a depth of insight and resonating meaning that rewards reflection.
Sip it like fine brandy!
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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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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 Defence of Hawaiian Shirts
$25.00 (GST-inc)B N Oakman’s deceptively conversational tone and wry humour in this collection complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favour of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion.
