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Cocky's Joy by Michael Farrell
Category: Poetry
Michael Farrell has a reputation as the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, since he continually pushes the boundaries of what our poetry can do. Cocky's Joy is likely to be his breakthrough collection, the one which wins him a wider audience, and part of the reason for t ...Show more
Collaborative Circles - Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell
Category: Philosophy
Many artists, writers, and other creative people do their best work when collaborating within a circle of like-minded friends. In a unique study, Michael P. Farrell looks at the group dynamics in six collaborative circles, and gives vivid narrative accounts of each: the French Impressionists; Sigmund Fr ...Show more
Googlecholia by Michael Farrell
Category: Poetry
The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and playfulness, his satirical takes on contemporary life. ...Show more
I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell
Category: Poetry
In I Love Poetry Michael Farrell continues to affirm poetry as a mode of thinking. His poems aspire to both memorability and meaning, and to invoke new Australian realities - 'the rhyme's a moral that becomes a fence; a fallen-down fence is a joy forever.' The tone is playful and ironic, more under the ...Show more
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets by Edited Michael Farrell and Jill Jones
Category: Poetry
The first contemporary book of its kind: poems by gay and lesbian poets writing now in the freedoms and dangers of the 21st century. Poems of the 21st century: sexy, sassy, innovative, and real. Poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Peter Rose, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Lee Cat ...Show more
Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945: 2015 by Michael Farrell
Category: Australian History | Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to ret ...Show more
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