Famously in the twentieth century Frank O'Hara spends his lunch hour stepping out of the Museum of Modern Art to type poems on shop demonstration typewriters. Following his accidental death on Fire Island he becomes a legend in his own lifetime. Watson's extended riff on these lunch perambulations addresses this first legend.An ......
Exploring issues like the need to respect a fragile environment and the rights of marginalised people (with quite a focus placed on migration) this collection is underpinned by the belief we should show greater care for fellow humans; for our world; for other living things.
The year is 1982 and Adolf Hitler has been living anonymously on the south coast of New South Wales for almost thirty years waging small wars with his neighbours and the local council. Until one day during the height of the Falklands War his old comrade Martin Bormann comes to visit bearing a secret that will affect both their ......
The poems in Richard Stanton's new collection are inspired by landscape and imagination with frequent collisions between the two. Richard's first collection was Seven Car Loads of What You Need. He is also the author of Enngonia Road.
'Absorbing empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable grace and clarity.' - Judy Johnson
'Jane Williams has the rare ability to make our ordinary days feel not just vividly real but also cared ......
'The undreamt unborn horizon the smack of the ocean beneath this brilliant collection and in Pamela Leach a strong new voice beside us to navigate the thrilling risk of this voyage within!' - Dr Mark Macleod Charles Sturt University
'To read Unlikely Vessels is to embark upon in the poet's own words "a wonder-journey" to ......
‘Compassionate poignant otherworldly and profound: this thought-provoking sometimes raw collection is accessible contemporary poetry at its zenith of achievement.’ – Mark Logie author of the poetry collection On the Road to Infinity and the young adult thriller Deadfall
Until a Shrimp Learns to Whistle is a compellingly mordant yet profound and moving meditation on the ephemeral quality of our existence. In these lapidary narratives there is a dark overall cast to the work the writer being influenced by the dystopic early J.G. Ballard in the bleak pessimism and claustrophobic surreal nature of the ......
Poems by Vivian Smith, Sid Harrex, Margaret Scott, Graeme Hetherington
The four poets in this collection were born in the 1930s: Vivian Smith at Hobart in 1933; Margaret Scott at Bristol in the United Kingdom (1934); Syd Harrex at Smithton (1935) and Graeme Hetherington at Latrobe (1937). Apart from Gwen Harwood (born in the previous decade) these four writers made one of the most extensive contributions to ......
