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The Sky Runs Right Through Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'This deeply personal book is also an important historical record. Written from the heart and covering a period of time working on Christmas Island with asylum seekers until her return to Australia with an urgency to bear witness, Pettitt-Schipp's steady eye is levelled at a facade of Australian inclusi ...Show more
The Tiny Museums by Carolyn Abbs
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. "Carolyn Abbs's poems in her poised collection The Tiny Museums live in the gap between deep time and now. They are insistently alive to the rich tensions between those two registers. This pairing of past/present plays out ...Show more
Walking With Camels: The story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband's achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the ...Show more
Wildlife of Berlin by Philip Neilsen
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
"Neilsen's intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious a ...Show more