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Milk Teeth by Rae White
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more
PARTS OF US by Shapcott Thomas
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In Parts of Us, Thomas Shapcott demonstrates why he remains one of the country's leading poets. Poetic styles in the volume range from sonnet sequences to long lyrical meditations, from dramatic monologues to more confessional works. The poems are often amusing or evocative portrayals of everyday things ...Show more
Poems 1970-1992 by Fay Zwicky
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
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Revolving Days by David Malouf
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
SKIN PAINTING by HODGSON ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
This collection of poetry considers the nature of memory and its historical and emotional significance. Hodgson's use of language is matched by the imagery and structure as she explores themes of art, identity, sexuality and loneliness. The poems reference widely and have the impact and haunting qualiti ...Show more
Special The by David Stavanger
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006-2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut, latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti. While many ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The World Last Night by M.T.C. Cronin
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
An exciting new collection from one of Australia's most daring poets. The world tomorrow is haunted only by what doesn't happen now. A new volume from Cronin is much-anticipated and The World Last Night is rich, polished and delightful. It has a confidence and grace about it and moves from wit to whimsy ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more