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A Float in Light by David Ades
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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
Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
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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
Communists Like Us by John Falzon
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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
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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
New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham by Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor); Anna Wickham
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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
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Category: No Category | 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.
Preparations for Departure by Nathanael O'Reilly
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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
Snake Like Charms by Joy, Amanda
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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
Wildlife of Berlin by Philip Neilsen
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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
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