Poetry

ISBN: 9781760801465
Title: ANH AND LUCIEN
Author: PAGE TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Anh and Lucien is a compelling celebration of male desire and intimacy – and also a gripping clash of cultures and ideologies. Danger and death pervade Tony Page’s sensuous and sensitive evocation of a risky love affair in an alluring, unsettled place and time, Indochina 1940. Intrigue and art, passion and espionage interweave to drive and doom the relationship between Anh, a young revolutionary, and Lucien, a disaffected French bureaucrat. Page skillfully deploys alternating dramatic monologues to increase the tension as loyalty and betrayal merge towards Lucien’s final sacrifice

Imprint: University of WA Publishing
RRP: $22.99

ISBN: 9780571351152
Title: ANOTHER TIME
Author: AUDEN W H
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and technique than in any previous book of Auden's. Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - 'Spain 1937' and 'September 1,1939' - that he later altered or repudiated.

This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9780522874747
Title: ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN PROSE POETRY
Author: ATHERTON CASSANDRA / HETHERINGTON PAUL
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years.



The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetryincludes numerous distinguished prose poets—Jordie Albiston, joanne burns, Gary Catalano, Anna Couani, Alex Skovron, Samuel Wagan Watson, Ania Walwicz and many moremdash;and documents prose poetry's growing appeal over recent decades, from the poetic margins to the mainstream.


This collection reframes our understanding not only of this dynamic poetic form, but of Australian poetry as a whole.

Imprint: Melbourne University Press
RRP: $39.99

ISBN: 9780995418172
Title: APPALACHIAN FALL : Poems about Poverty in Power
Author: MAIDEN JENNIFER
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE


Imprint: CONSIGNMENT STOCK
RRP: $21.00

ISBN: 9781925818093
Title: APPARENTLY
Author: BURNS JOANNE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from?

Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dreams in the form of prose poems or microfictions; ‘dial’, the longest section, acknowledges the bewildering sense of daily time and the dizzying spectacle of social and worldly matters contained within.

Finally, from a more restful or relaxed vantage, ‘the random couch’ presents a number of drifting poems, written while the poet was lounging on the sofa.

Imprint: GIRAMONDO
RRP: $24.00

ISBN: 9781925735215
Title: ARCHIVAL POETICS
Author: HARKIN NATALIE
Format: SLIP CASE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Archival-Poetics is an embodied reckoning with the State’s colonial archive and those traumatic, contested and buried episodes of history that inevitably return to haunt; a way of knowing and being in the world that carries us lovingly back and forward and back again toward something else restorative/ transformed/ honouring/ just. Family records at the heart of this work highlight policy measures targeting Aboriginal girls for removal into indentured domestic labour, and trigger questions on surveillance, representation and agency. This is a shared story; a decolonising project through poetic refusal, resistance and memory-making. It is our memory in the blood, and it does not always flow easily.

Dr Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia. She is a Research Fellow at Flinders University with an interest in decolonising state archives, currently engaging archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labour histories in SA. Her words have been installed and projected in exhibitions comprising text-object-video projection, including creative-arts research collaboration with the Unbound Collective. She has published widely, including with literary journals Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Wasafiri International Contemporary Writing, TEXT and Cordite. Her first poetry collection, Dirty Words, was published by Cordite Books in 2015.


Imprint: VAGABOND PRESS
RRP: $30.00

ISBN: 9781922181961
Title: ARGOSY
Author: LI BELLA
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

WINNER of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).

Commended in The Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry.

This innovative full-length collection, drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and originality, as well as the relationship between poetry and other disciplines: the visual arts, history, literature and film. Polyglot in sensibility and content, and daring in construction, Argosy defies categorisation. Grounded firmly in Australian contemporary poetic practice, the book is also outward-looking in its approach to form and content; it constitutes a landmark in both local and international poetics.

‘Li is a cartographer of a different kind. Her map-making is as aesthetic as it is topographic, plotting fragmented histories, horizons and the spectral lands of memory and dream.’ Tamryn Bennett, Mascara Literary Review

Imprint: VAGABOND PRESS
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9781787332157
Title: ARIAS
Author: OLDS SHARON
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE*

Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from the dead- the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere.

Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stands centre stage to account for her own late romance and chance wisdom, and faces the tragic life of our nation and our planet. 'I cannot say I did not ask / to be born,' begins one aria, which considers how, with what actions, with what thirst, we each ask for a turn, and receive our portion on earth. Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion, anguish, and solo force that make a great performance, in the process enlarging the soul of her readers.

'Olds is a supreme poet of the body; I'll be reading her till I die' Fiona Benson

Imprint: Jonathan Cape Publishers
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9780571322725
Title: ARIEL
Author: PLATH SYLVIA
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests...'Since she died my mother has been dissected, analysed, reinterpreted, reinvented, fictionalized, and in some cases completely fabricated. It comes down to this: her own words describe her best, her ever-changing moods defining the way she viewed her world and the manner in which she pinned down her subjects with a merciless eye.' - from Frieda Hughes's introduction to Ariel

Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9780571236091
Title: ARIEL : RESTORED EDITION
Author: PLATH SYLVIA
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim.This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath's manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem 'Ariel' in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems.

Imprint: FABER AND FABER
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9780571347087
Title: ARMISTICE
Author: DUFFY CAROL ANN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.

Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $22.99

ISBN: 9781324002680
Title: ART OF VOICE : Poetic Principles and Practice
Author: HOAGLAND TONY
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

An award-winning poet, teacher, and “champion of poetry” (New York Times) demystifies the elusive element of voice.

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting balances, tones, and temperatures, by turns confiding, vulgar, bossy, or cunning?but above all, alive.

The twelve short chapters of The Art of Voice explore ways to create a distinctive poetic voice, including vernacular, authoritative statement, material imagination, speech register, tone-shifting, and using secondary voices as an enriching source of texture in the poem. A comprehensive appendix contains thirty stimulating models and exercises that will help poets cultivate their craft. Mining his personal experience as a poet and analyzing a wide range of examples from Catullus to Marie Howe, Hoagland provides a lively introduction to contemporary poetry and an invaluable guide for any practicing writer.

Imprint: NORTON
RRP: $35.95