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Tail of the Taniwha by Courtney Sina Meredith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Near Fine
Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play, Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha pushes at the boundaries of writ ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Michele Leggott
$30.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂNo brief review can hope to do justice to this dense, intricate and vivid collection. Not to be consumed rapidly like verbal takeaways, but sipped and savoured; soul food, mind food.ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà- NZ Herald Canvas Magazi ...Show more
Psychology for a Better World : Working with People to Save the Planet by Niki Harre
$32.95 AUD
Category: Health & Psychology
Can you save the planet and have some fun along the way? Aimed at the teacher who updates students on the latest climate change negotiations, the conservationist who works to protect endangered species, the office manager who buys fair-trade coffee, or the city counselor who lobbies for cycle lanes, th ...Show more
This Paper Boat by Gregory Kan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: General Adult
In This Paper Boat, poet Gregory Kan traces the life and written fragments of Robin Hyde, vivid with imagery and impression - the tide pool at Island Bay and its shrimp, the driftwood and crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories of his parents and of their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani t ...Show more
Mining Road by O'SULLIVAN LEANNE
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. Like remnants of a lost world, the mines' ruined towers, shafts, man-engines and dressing floors, evoke an elem ...Show more
Selected Poems (Bill Manhire) by Bill Manhire
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and &lsqu ...Show more
Collected Poems 1967-1999 by Bill Manhire
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Bill Manhire's Collected Poems brings together thirty years of work from the outstanding poet of his generation.
Crumb Road by MAITREYABANDHU
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Maitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and writ ...Show more
Yarn by MAITREYABANDHU
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Yarn is about the stories we tell. Collected around four dramatic monologues - Hanoi Journal, The Cattle Farmer's Tale, The Travellers from Orissa and Aaron's Brother - Yarn includes an extended sequence of elegies, an account of a Warwickshire childhood and two stories about the Buddha. Ranging from th ...Show more
The Beauty by HIRSHFIELD JANE
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate ...Show more
Jutland by HILL SELIMA
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Jutland brings together two contrasting poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Advice on Wearing Animal Prints, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award, and Sunday Afternoons at the Gravel-pits. Like all of Selima Hill's work, both sequences chart 'extreme experi ...Show more
Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by LEWIS GWYNETH
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to l ...Show more