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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Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript "Legacy holds a delicate strength both in form and subject.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.
Poor Man's Coat - Hardanger Poems by Kit Kelen
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Ålvik - setting for the poems in this book - is a sleepy little industrial town, set between the Hardanger Fjord and its own little mountain for climbing. Behind Ålvik the serious mountains go on forever, all the length of Norway, till there's almost no more north. The town is brightly painted and decor ...Show more
Preparations for Departure by Nathanael O'Reilly
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot-what must not-be forgotten, in rich and telling detail and ...Show more
Rallying by Quinn Eades
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Rallying was written alongside Quinn Eades's first book, all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and before he began transitioning from female to male. A collection very much concerned with the body, and the ways in which we create and write under, around, without, and with children, this ...Show more
Satan Repentant by Michael Aiken
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
A violent epic leaping from the cosmological to the infinitesimal, Satan Repentant is a modern-day drama of revenge, resentment, and remorse, telling a new myth of what would happen if Satan tried to apologise and atone for all his crimes. Through that story, it explores ideas of power, of authority to ...Show more
Snake Like Charms by Joy, Amanda
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Amanda Joys first book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. Its grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the ...Show more
Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
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The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Short Story of You and I by Richard James Allen
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From long narrative lines to fine-boned, lyrical loops and ties that bind these poems into place, Richard James Allen has taken risks with language that mark this as his most adventurous and significant book to date. --Anthony Lawrence Allen's subject is being itself, and the way our biological and ment ...Show more