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A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
Amnesia Findings by Anna Jacobson
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Category: Health | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps - slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex - I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson's collection traces the skeins o ...Show more
Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future (which isn't what it used to be), dating apps, despair, Bonnie Tyler, Taylor Swift and the lesbian bachelorette, they are set in interstellar queer utopias, maternity wards and single beds. Jesse ...Show more
Cadaver Dog by Luke Best
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Be ...Show more
Milk Teeth by Rae White
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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
$26.95 AUD
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
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
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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
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic ...Show more
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