Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Australian & Oceanian

Jen Webb's new collection is a series of striking prose poems that explore the ways in which personal crises and memories might be re-examined through the elusive concept of the archive. How, she asks, might we construct a personal archive to 'make sense of the past in the work of facing and building the future'? Each of these finely wrought poems is a record of life lived through significant moments.

All These Presences publishes poems by creative writing students at Avondale College alongside work by a selection of established Australian poets. Like the three earlier volumes it follows, Wording the World (2010), Here Not There (2012) and A Way of Happening (2014), it is a unique collaboration between writers at very different stages of learning and practising their craft.

Poetry writing is an intensely personal expression of experience. The poems themselves, however, have a magical ability to move from silence into a world of unexpected...

Connecting: to this planet and Her inhabitants is a collection of short poems written and illustrated by Janet Baird. It covers a wide range of subject matter from Kakadu to Machu Pichu; cyclones to exploration; Indigenous mythology to music; archeology to social issues; astronomy to a cricket match.

The poems are designed to stimulate further interest in the events and issues addressed. They may encourage readers to reminisce about their own personal experiences.

The collection emphasizes the need for cooperation between everyone and everything sharing this...

"Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry, of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms, the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit, absurdity, and sheer verbal craft to be ignored." --Peter Riley

"We've all seen how, after a night of drones, an experimental poet comes out to read, wielding the vernacular, and the room lights up. There's laughter, joy, play, confusion, a rmation, all the things that make poetry what it is. This is why poets in the generation including Duggan, Pam Brown and Ken Bolton...

New poetry from Australian author Ashley Capes. His first new collection since between giants in 2012. VI brings together published and unpublished work from the intervening years.

It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebearers' lives, both before transportation and afterwards, in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. Dark Convicts uncovers a little known aspect of Australian colonial history, told from the unique vantage point of a descendant. (Series: UWAP Poetry) Subject: Poetry]

Bonny Cassidy's first book, Certain Fathoms, glimmers with precisely observed moments that make a strange place of the familiar. These poems speak not only to each other but to and of other writers: Eve Langley, John Berryman, JS Harry. Cassidy knits seemingly small phrases and events into glimpses of a vast, interconnected whole. There is a mapping-out here that is organic, not programmatic, preoccupied "with more-than-human subjects", "the trains of phrase and acquaintance,/ unstopped chains of heat, return, death". Cool, yet engaged, Cassidy's poems swell with the movements...

Paul Cliff is a poet, playwright and editor whose poetry, stories, critical articles and reviews have been widely published over the past 30 years. Among prizes won (or for which he has been shortlisted) are the Mattara Poetry Prize, the David Campbell and Rosemary Dobson Prizea. Deadline: A Manual for Hostage-Taking won the Canberra Playwright's Award 2000 and was produced at Canberra's Theatre 3. He has worked for multinational publishing houses, universities and magazines, and was Senior Editor at both the National Library of Australia and the National Gallery of...