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Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane
Category: History
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics - the winning, the wielding, the losing. Taking us into the inner sanctum of st ...Show more
Judas Boys by Joel Deane
Category: Fiction
The long-awaited new novel from award-winning Australian writer, Joel Deane.What happens when the future falls as dark as your past? When all that you have seduced and betrayed, rises up to drown you. Pat Pinnock is about to find out.Pinnock is a Judas Boy — a private schoolboy gone to seed. He's lost h ...Show more
Magisterium by Joel Deane
Category: Poetry
Strives to find truth in the increasingly inconsistent lives we are living and duplicitous language we are speaking. 'The public and the private intersect at a deep level in Joel Deane's poetry. The politics of the agora colours and is coloured by the politics of self and its anxieties' - George Szirtes ...Show more
Magisterium by Joel Deane
Category: Poetry
Award-winning novelist and poet Joel Deane has released his second collection pf poetry, and taken aim at the world of politics and politicians. Deane is principal speechwriter to the Premier of Victoria.
Subterranean Radio Songs by Joel Deane
Category: Poetry | Series: Emerging Authors S.
Following the success of his novel Another, Joel Deane's first collection of poems is a travelogue - following him around the world, from Australia to the Americas to the Himalayas, and into the great interior of human frailty. "Deane combines his storytelling skills with a natural instinct for the rhyt ...Show more
The Norseman's Song by Joel Deane
Category: Fiction
An ancient man without a past hails a taxi driven by a petty criminal with no future. Reluctantly, the pair embarks on a journey in search of a legendary whaler and murderer known only as the Norseman. This is a one-way trip — but who’s taking who for a ride? The Norseman’s Song is a stylish blend of g ...Show more
The Norseman's Song by Joel Deane
Category: Fiction
The package is wrapped roughly in butcher's paper, retrained with string. Inside, is a tan leather journal crammed with tortured handwriting, a letter written in the decorative style of an adolescent girl, and a phallic curve of yellowed bone tattooed with an elaborate, snake-like engraving of a Chinese ...Show more
Year of the Wasp by Joel Deane
Category: Poetry
Year Of the Wasp finds its origins in shattering personal experience and then rises from this personal focus to confront the realities of politics, culture, and language in contemporary Australia. This is a deeply engaged collection, much of the time it reads like the poet is writing for his life in a v ...Show more
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