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Eleni Cay fuses the predictability of algorithms with the serendipity of unreasoning loves and charts a move from carnal to virtual existence. With a raw portrait of the shadows that lurk in online transactions, the poems intensify the global connections that make love a constant riddle for all mankind.
Cherry Cola focuses on a girl and a boy's unfiltered relationship; giving a voice to both narratives and their individual internal struggles. The poetry centres around the journey of falling in love and it's aftermath.
This is a full-length study of the much-loved poet and classicist A.E. Housman, including a substantial appendix of his poems and illustrations from the early editions of his books of poetry which, in turn, depict the many ways his poems have been interpreted for almost a century.
This collection presents four decades of work, from seven collections and includes some poems which have not previously been published poems and others which have won some of Australia's most distinguished prizes. The poems are in a wide variety of forms and modes, but a concern with Australianness remains at the core of this selection.
People That Don't Exist Are Citizens Of A Made Up Country is an exploration of family emigration in the context of global migration. It seeks to display the increasingly universal reality of displacement as a lived experience. In a sequence of interlinked chapter essays migrant reality is married to one family's history.
These poignant poems serve as a survival manifesto for physical & psychological trauma touching upon over twenty years of curated soul work on the immigrant experience.
Your Brain Cells Sing When They Die is a loving excoriation of the structures that shape our thoughts, desires and days.
Gravity is a collection of seven stories and a novella about obsessed women: women consumed by revenge, women who can't get out of love triangles, women who are not even in their bodies when they make love.These cutting edge stories deal with the pleasures and difficulties of love and hate.
In Sandstorm, the footprints of those who walked before us in personal and collective histories are unearthed, with a recognition that we cannot walk 'without leaving a trace behind'. These traces form a rich, never-ending tapestry woven into our present-day realities.
This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens' Pip might have been like if he had grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues that galvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle.
A Ligature for Black Bodies attempts to re-humanize black bodies into black people byholding the power structures and people accountable who have reified a dominant anddestructive discourse.
The book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth-century statesman and tyrant, Shaka Zulu (1787-1828). Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life, the poet extracts Zulu from the historical past and moves him to the modern media age where speed dating, UFOs and effervescent pain-killers are the norm.
The Animal Investigators of London is a charming and humorous tale of an uneasy alliance of neighbourhood animals coming together in the face of a dangerous criminal. The narrator, Yowl, has much to learn, but nobody can question his bravery. Featuring cats, dogs, a squirrel, a pigeon and a whole skulk of foxes!
Poetry. On November 13, 2015, a series of mass shootings erupted in Paris, killing many people and traumatising a nation. In this brief anthology, we commemorate the outpouring of support and empathy with the victims immediately after the attacks and attempt to recapture the collective, human response to the horror, prior to its use as a political tool. Ideally, these poems offer a way out of the vengeful cycle that acts of terror seek to inspire.
Madness And Love In Maida Vale celebrates Todd Swift's 50th birthday - and over 30 years of published poetry - in style, with new poems extending his striking range. Moving across religion, marital love, sexual desire, mental health, Maida Vale, and the vexing issue of poetry itself, the collection sustains, over long sequences and brief lyrics, a restless sense of achievement.
Barefoot is a powerfully distinctive debut, written in an engaging, attractive style, crammed full of lyrical moments that turn the expected and commonplace into something else. The poems, reflecting on the present, draw on memory, time and language with an acute awareness of the past that maps the idea of place and home.
This is a startling debut from a poet with a voice of distinctive realism that masterfully captures the harsh realities of her world. The poems engulf the reader with an astonishing range of emotion and image. A poet with something real to convey.
An exciting debut from a highly accomplished poet, both in performance and on the page. Jarrett's work navigates the tensions between home and belonging, between relationships and personal identities. Line by line the collection is lyrically rich, charged with emotion and passion yet tinged with a wonderful twist of humour.
Set in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, 58% Cabbage chronicles the hapless adventures of a middle-aged Everymanas he grapples with both a sense of loss and a loss of sense while attempting to pursue his comedy dreams.
A novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spiritsof Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Now, here, is the paperback edition to celebrate the year of the everyday heroes, who changed our way of seeing the world of work and heroism - a picture book without words, timeless, universal, and finally, both heart-breaking and ennobling.
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