Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Australian & Oceanian

In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel beneath help."

Killing the Black Dog is Murray's recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full...

"It is through the creative arts that we can place ourselves inside the experiences of others and feel the many-dimensional nature of humanity. Though poetry may be considered as a 'gentle art', it can be uncompromisingly powerful and demanding. The poetry in this collection is an anthem to the experiences forged through travel, family and viewing nature as a spiritual awakening. Demands are placed on the ready to see the world and human interactions not as random selections but actions that carry the burden of cause and effect as dictated by man. In this, the reader can journey with the...

Pulse is the second anthology of prose poems from the Prose Poetry Project, a group of over twenty poets from across Australia and the UK who collaborate on writing this most undecidable of forms. This anthology features two long sequences of prose poems, selected to resonate images, themes, ideas and connections. What develops is an immersive, multi-vocal reading experience that speaks to not only the collaborative nature of the project but to prose poetry's capacity to surprise and delight.

A rich collection of poems that take the reader on a deep tour of the psyche. Charting and moving across politics of language, Bell explores love, pain, failure and redemption from a variety of angles. Most of the poems sit at the fragile threshold of instinct and meaning, using symbol and sensation to get to the shock of denouement. From 'Spandex' to the Greek kafeneion, there are unexpected juxtapositions and discoveries to be found in Jessica Bell's 'Fabric'. This voice is equally inspired by the quotidian, Greek jargon words, and the mythic figures of Echo and Narcissus, Aphrodite,...

A modern family creates many issues and obstacles that family members must overcome. These issues range from deep love and desire to lack of communications and obsessions. This book raises many such issues in both verse and prose.

Family Matters: A synopsis of the life journey of the author presents a detailed narrative of life’s processes, some of which can only be called “agonizing.”

The author based his poetry on the “pain and anguish experienced with my family members and their related parties. I had to think deeply about the key issues...

'Through her poetry in Moonbeams in the Bitter Rain Jayne Linke invites understanding of what it is to come through harsh and life-changing events. Crisp, raw and achingly honest, her writing at times gives voice to her experience of being perceived and treated as broken, expressing the desire to be related to fully and naturally, to be engaged with as spirited and alive. Rich with allegory and beauty, her words move beyond isolation and despair to a sense of soulful connection and transcendence. Her openness to beauty, life and nature and her interconnectedness with it all shines...

'In Mark Mahemoff's Urban Gleanings the routine of the urban commute, punctured by fragile incidents and ruminations, is interspersed with poems drumming against mortality, such as the refugees whose -corpses washed to shore / all in the same boat-. Many poems are shaded by nostalgia and a tinkering unease: an old garage where -dreams often end up in mothballs-, parents and children cagily circling each other, or watching balloons -disappear into their past-. As well as these segmented descriptions of daily life demarcated by a crowded metropolis, two long centos chronicle some...

In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth about A not only considers the issue of whether to obey the law or your conscience but delves into the nature of the creative impulse and the eternal bonds and chasms...