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A Float in Light by David Ades
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
"David Ades' luminous and honest collection, Afloat in Light, is chiefly a celebration of fatherhood and of paying attention, utilising Simone Weil's notion that 'attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity'. The collection extends to existence and loss, and a discourse on motive and meaning. ...Show more
Aboriginal Country by Lisa Bellear; Jen Jewel Brown (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first ...Show more
Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'A book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn's range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her miniatures - often small masterpieces - are built around decept ...Show more
Broken Ground by Steve Armstrong
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Borrowing from the title of his Bruce Dawe prize-winning poem, Steve Armstrong's wonderful first collection is 'a cracked and weathered prayer'. These are questing, generous poems, filled with grace and vulnerability, and reading them is like taking a walk through a magical and yet familiar landscape, a ...Show more
Charlie Twirl by Alan Gould
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From the intrigue of his earlier poetry in fatalism and the mysteries of character, Alan Gould's interest has moved to music. In many of the poems in this book, the folk songs or the homages to Vaughan Williams, his enquiry is one of synaesthesia: What is it we see when we hear? In meditating this the p ...Show more
Communists Like Us by John Falzon
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Communists Like Us is a simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love? And when isn't love a fragmented but tender dial ...Show more
Hush: A Fugue by Dominique Hecq
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
"Dominique Hecq writes through dulled topographies of mourning, avowing death is a "singular fear of finitude against a background of black light". Autobiographical, and sharply particular, Hush takes readers into an abyss where "grief is a caesura" and loss means "being hostage to a ghost". But this bo ...Show more
Keeper of the Ritual by Marque Shey
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Shey Marque's debut full collection is wonderfully responsive to the complexity and sensuality of ocean, bush, animals, art and human relationships. The poems are always wryly intelligent, self-aware and carefully crafted, across an impressive variety of forms. She brings to this rich collection the for ...Show more
Legacy by Julie Watts
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript "Legacy holds a delicate strength both in form and subject. These are poems that reflect, with grace, honesty and a sometimes unnerving directness, on the complex interconnections of contemporary life. As the poet writes about her man ...Show more
Moonlight on Oleander - Prose Poems by Paul Hetherington
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Paul Hetherington has become a master of the prose poem form, creating intriguing yet hospitable pieces whose tonal, emotional and imaginative range are a delight. Each piece has been carefully wrought to become sharp and revelatory; his graceful cadences reach right into the heart of his subjects. This ...Show more
New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham by Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor); Anna Wickham
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Anna Wickham (1883-1947) was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of Modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend of many significant writers, including D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dyl ...Show more
Open Door by John Kinsella
Category: Australian History | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.