Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
Our lucent teeth spark the rainbow dark.Here, we do not use words like love.Instead, we speak with hands that hold as shoulders tusslethe roughhouse rougher.In the absence of daylight,we are just two young men,silent save for giggle and shoe scuff-we do not rouse suspicion when touching. from 'Night Orc ...Show more
Languish by Marion May Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
She stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, flamboyantly connecting and wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next it transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory. la ...Show more
And to Ecstasy by Marjon Mossammaparast
$24.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matched with the belief we are also spirit beings. And to Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite poems, M ...Show more
Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature by Iain McCalman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
By telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her adopted Vervet monkey. On an East-African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year- ...Show more
Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.Half a ...Show more
Life with Birds by Bronwyn Rennex
$29.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.This is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known.Life with Birds invests in the small scale, ...Show more
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
'A world full of human damage and human courage' -Bill Manhire, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of WellingtonIt's 1978. Charlie is sixteen and pregnant and the only legal abortion clinic in Auckland has been forced to close. She has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac.It's 2 ...Show more
No Enemies, No Friends: Restoring Australia's Global Relevance by Allan Behm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Upswell
How can Australia recalibrate its national security settings to meet future demands amid global disruption? Plicy expert Allan Behm offers practical ideas, imbued with optimismIs increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with glob ...Show more
The Blacksmith's Daughter by Selim Ozdogan
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Category: Upswell
A young girl navigates the joys and sorrows of rural life on the cusp of the modern world in mid-twentieth century Turkey. A close-knit family is transformed forever when its matriarch tragically dies, leaving behind a husband, Timur the blacksmith, and their three young daughters. The Blacksmith's Dau ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
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Category: Upswell
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
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