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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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Aquamorphia: falling for Water
$13.00 (GST-inc)Each section of this exciting and tumultuous water narrative takes the reader for a ride on different streams of intoxicating, daring and at times playful water worlds.
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City of Possibilities
$12.00 (GST-inc)In her latest volume, Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J. O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is.
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Even Grimmer Tales: Not for the faint-hearted
$12.00 (GST-inc)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
$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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Words Flower: a responsive tanka collection
$13.00 (GST-inc)Two of Australia’s most accomplished tanka artists collaborate in this bi-lingual (English / Japanese) collection.
