Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Australian & Oceanian

'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadness for humanity's follies.'
- Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers

'Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative feeling for language.'
- Geoffrey Lehmann, The Bulletin

'...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are directed from the heart as well as the mind.'
- Judith Wright, Poetry No. 4...

Like the river it is named after, The Turanganui Poets Collective is an online junction where poets from within and outside Turanganui a Kiwa meet. The relative safety of the online community that has been established provides a creative space for all to encourage each other's poetry to grow. The proof is in the diversity of membership who have put their hands up to be included in...

David Moody’s poems in Ordinary Euphoria do even more than help us see the significance of apparently ordinary moments to our lives. Accessible and thought-provoking, from the short, humorous poems such as If to the longer ones such as Compassionate People and Smokescreen, this beautifully written, accessible collection shows us the importance of such moments to our sense of humanity and self. 

These poems reward us in many...

A collection of poetry by ChloE Frayne.
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This book is for you, sweet stranger. You with the galaxy eyes and that feeling in the pit of your stomach that something is missing. You with the stars up your arm and a ceaseless chill down your spine. You with your face turned to the moon and the darkness snapping at your back. You in the bookstore with your fingers upon the pulse of the universe and your day filled with the infinite nature of possibility.

You.

I have felt you in my bones every day of my life and searched for your face though I do...

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social injustice.

Marshallese poet and activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's writing highlights the traumas of colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of American nuclear testing, and the impending threats of climate change. Bearing witness at the front lines of various activist movements inspires her work and has propelled her...

Letters from my soul, was written over many years, it was creative, from many different emotions, some good and some not so good, some of the letters were simple through, watching something on T.V that made the writer Lynette, feel some time good and sometimes, what she had seen worried her, and she would write how it or what was happen in her life, down on paper. Still to day when she feels a bit lost in a world that can easy become too much, she find laughter, and solos in the words that she reads, that has become Letters from my soul. Some time we look for strength in the words of...

Letters from my soul, was written over many years, it was creative, from many different emotions, some good and some not so good, some of the letters were simple through, watching something on T.V that made the writer Lynette, feel some time good and sometimes, what she had seen worried her, and she would write how it or what was happen in her life, down on paper. Still to day when she feels a bit lost in a world that can easy become too much, she find laughter, and solos in the words that she reads, that has become Letters from my soul. Some time we look for strength in the words of...

With poems ranging from the confessional to the mock-autobiographical, from imagism to a strange storytelling, from the comic and satirical to the plangent and disturbing, Star Struck startles us with the many faces of lyric poetry.

This book of poems by the award-winning poet David McCooey is made up of four sections. The first documents an alienating encounter with a life-threatening illness. The second plays out an unforgettable obsession with darkness and light. The third brings together popular music and the ancient literary mode of the pastoral. In this highly original...

Twisted Velvet Chains is a collection of poems which follows the experiences of a young woman growing up with a bipolar, drug addicted, Gothic musician mother. Each poem represents specific moments of their life that embrace vivid rich imagery, and illustrate the turmoil of emotions both experience while together. The collection is divided into four parts that flow one into the other from childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and post-death.

Immerse yourself in a selection of verse (Poetry) from the collection of Ken Mann that spans over twenty-five years. Follow a unique journey of thoughts, feelings, and personal views that have shaped the author. Be carried away into the realms of make believe, thrown into political arguments, debate social dilemma's, and share romantic intentions. Includes the award-winning verse, "Existence of Shameless Minstrelsy" - Poetry.com 2006
Also, includes bonus excerpt of Book 1. "The Black Locust" from The Wiccan Tales series.