Painting with Light
ISBN: 9781763502505 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,20 zł |
Anything the Landlord Touches
ISBN: 9780907562924 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. 'Anything the landlord touches' was Emma Lew's second collection to be published in Australia, where it was published by Giramondo in 2002. The book won the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (the Victorian State Premier's award for poetry), and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award (the Queensland Premier's Prize for Poetry), two of the main literary prizes in the country, and was also short-listed for The Age award and the NSW and South Australian Premier's Literary Prizes. Her first collection, 'The Wild Reply' (Black Pepper Press, 1997) won The Age award.
Poetry. 'Anything the landlord touches' was Emma Lew's second collection to be published in Australia, where it was published by Giramondo in 2002. Th...
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83,97 zł |
The Biplane Houses
ISBN: 9780374531287 / Angielski / Miękka / 99 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection--named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia--exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, history--and myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity. The Biplane Houses is... This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best.... |
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70,56 zł |
Christianity and The Great South Land
ISBN: 9781432709815 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. T. A. Hooper wears his heart on his sleeve. In "Christianity and The Great South Land," poet T.A. Hooper shares his love of his country, Australia, and of the people who have touched his life. The opening poem, "Reverend Ken," is a tribute to his late father-in-law, Reverend Kenneth Schneider: With Guitar in hand, he traveled up and down the West Australian Coast Always to GOD giving a mighty toast Spreading God's word through story and song wherever he goes Like the Fremantle Doctor, which always blows With songs about GOD and everyday life that touched us all... T. A. Hooper wears his heart on his sleeve. In "Christianity and The Great South Land," poet T.A. Hooper shares his love of his country, Austr... |
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49,14 zł |
ASPoetry: Illustrated Poems from an Aspie Life
ISBN: 9781843104186 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wendy Lawson's well-known poetry reflects the many aspects of a life lived with Asperger's Syndrome. In this illustrated collection of poems and short prose pieces, including some from her childhood and teenage years, Wendy engages with her past and present, writing frankly about childhood, self-discovery, adulthood and friendship. Her poetry also conveys the day-to-day challenges presented by divorce, bereavement, emigration, disclosing homosexuality and Asperger's Syndrome. Both reflective and life affirming, these poems offer evocative glimpses of the Asperger experience and will enrich...
Wendy Lawson's well-known poetry reflects the many aspects of a life lived with Asperger's Syndrome. In this illustrated collection of poems and short...
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75,95 zł |
The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
ISBN: 9781571313201 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, the first people and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people who were there first and still remain; the Maxwell family, who tried, but failed, to tame the land; the affable, impoverished, often drunken ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself, a poet trying to insinuate his citified self into a rugged landscape defined by drought, fire, and scarcity. Like the works of Peter Mathiessen,...
Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forest...
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Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781906570422 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poems draws together the the best work from Katherine Gallagher's previous collections, together with new work.
This collection of poems draws together the the best work from Katherine Gallagher's previous collections, together with new work.
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65,09 zł |
The Crooked Truth
ISBN: 9781933704050 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dan Guenther is a poet for all seasons who speaks to us through unique imagery and often brilliant contrast about his many years walking the western landscape, the old Ute trails in Colorado, foreign lands, and a war-torn countryside. His deep relationship with the natural world, and all its creatures has a way of healing, making connections, and balancing one 's life in the great scheme of living and dying. In silence and solitude and in secret places, from Vietnam to a winter campsite, he ponders the big questions, and we listen. His meditations on time, space and light, ancient cliff...
Dan Guenther is a poet for all seasons who speaks to us through unique imagery and often brilliant contrast about his many years walking the western l...
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43,88 zł |
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses
ISBN: 9781849024594 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.
In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Austral...
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87,92 zł |
The Atrocity of Water
ISBN: 9781935708124 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Kirsten Hemmy's remarkable book of poems, The Atrocity of Water, reaches us in the deep places of the heart where only a poem can go, where the reader will 'want to know what survives us.' These are wise poems that penetrate the mind with their brutal honesty. Again and again, we are broken and mended and again broken because ours is a world 'built on enslaved sweat, ' a world where 'all the tragedies of the world are a silence.' This book is the voice of thousands who cannot tell their own stories. Kirsten is a brave poet, seeking to restore to us that world that was lost, a world she has...
"Kirsten Hemmy's remarkable book of poems, The Atrocity of Water, reaches us in the deep places of the heart where only a poem can go, where the reade...
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59,27 zł |
Five Fathers: Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era
ISBN: 9781857540871 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murray's characteristically vivid and emphatic introductory essays to the poets, of whom he is in a real sense himself made, as heir and successor, and his 'essential' selections from their work, and he suggests why their accomplishments have been eclipsed in the wider bourse of English-language literary reputations. The Academy has much to answer for, yet the freedom the poets enjoyed was partly a result of their very neglect by institutions.
Murray's characteristically vivid and emphatic introductory essays to the poets, of whom he is in a real sense himself made, as heir and successor, an...
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70,30 zł |
Love the Universe in You
ISBN: 9781469735757 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,39 zł |
Green Sense: The Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language
ISBN: 9780957301702 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term 'botanical aesthetics' refers to the visual and embodied modes which inform the perception, understanding, and appreciation of plant life. Green Sense is an interdisciplinary study of human aesthetic relationships to wild plants and the 'cultures of flora' that may characterise a region. The book explores botanical aesthetics through a study of the South-West region of Western Australia; a biodiversity 'hotspot' of international standing. Through a diverse range of materials, approaches, and perspectives, this title points to the interplay of values informing cultures of flora-from...
The term 'botanical aesthetics' refers to the visual and embodied modes which inform the perception, understanding, and appreciation of plant life. Gr...
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561,96 zł |
Seasons of the Soul
ISBN: 9781482539400 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Seasons of the Soul' is a collection of poetry based on human emotion, particulary love. With a depth of maturity and understanding, Chris Foster's poetry has moved people to tears and great joy. An architect of words, he is able to see inside the souls of others and portray raw emotions with clarity. Awarded an international accolade for his early work, Chris has devoted the past seven years to finely honing his craft and skill as a poet. His words will move the human spirit and inspire others.
'Seasons of the Soul' is a collection of poetry based on human emotion, particulary love. With a depth of maturity and understanding, Chris Foster's p...
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37,04 zł |