August 2014 New Title Releases Where is my City Bookseller? I have spent some time in May in New York City attending the Book Expo America and the IDPF (Independent Digital Publishing Forum https:// www.idpf.org/) / BISG (Book Industry Study Group https://www.bisg.org/) conferences. And they were highly informative; the scope of speaker and discussion provided both by Bill McCoy’s and Len Vlahos’s group makes it so worthwhile to attend. Walking back from the Jarvits Centre you walk along 6th Avenue for a long way; hordes of people walking towards you, all with their hands holding mobile devices, all with buds protruding and it is noisy. So I ask myself when, how, why would these masses ever find a City Independent Bookseller to do what we typically do – look in physical bookshops. My opinion is that this “mobile” mass won’t – don’t, or – can’t visit a City Independent Bookseller because there are none. I then considered how many City Independent Booksellers we have in Australia and came up with only a slightly better result; across Australia we have seven of these Independent booksellers. So while I think the state of reading is good, the chance for that “mobile” sector of the population to stumble across a City Independent Bookseller gets smaller each year. What do we do? It affects our business as each month we have more books to ply into less physical retail outlets. We do get very strong support from the online sector as we have spent the money and have eager staff to put up the daily in stocks for the onix uploads; but again we face a logjam here as we rely so heavily on them to list all of our content without favour. Anyway I hope that Folio, Abbey’s, Readers Feast, Paperback, Imprints, Fullers and Boffins are able to carry that mantle. (Dymocks have shops in all Cities) I also hope those shops highlight those Australian books that you can’t “swoosh”, “scroll” or “pinch” on Mobile devices.
was translated so long ago the language is pure. The book was part of a collection of Cape May Court House, New Jersey. I am now on the track of a cased edition of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as I missed reading it all those years ago. What did I read at school? The reading was prescribed by the teachers and they probably never got away from Dickens, Shakespeare and other books I never finished – so thankful for Australian History and European History to lead me into temptation .
We were visiting Lancaster in Pennsylvania and stumbled across a second-hand bookseller who had an excellent selection of books for me to peruse and ponder; I saw the 'Islands in the Stream' which I never read as a young sales rep and then a very attractive copy of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque for only $5.00 – this has been a book which so many books have been likened to and I had never either read it or owned a cased copy of. Outstanding book and the translation is not full of current vernacular, it is more disciplined, or maybe because it
I hope the Federal Budget hangover finishes soon as the books are banking up and welcome to the new to us publishers of John Leonard, Puncher & Wattman and Authors First.
Why do I like those US conferences? Neither of the organisations are part of industry sects or chapters; it is simply coded to be the lot without having to obey other than the quest for an understanding of the processies which we try to cope with each day. I paid special attention to the eBook “subscription” offering from the businesses of Scribd and Safari and have found compelling reasons to consider them for our content. I also met with enthrill.com as I think this will help us all. On the subject of booksellers and eBooks I do think there needs to be harder endeavour given to how the offering is either “contiguous”, “bundled”, or relationship offers so as we don’t miss that stream of consumer. It is fine to have a discreet button on your online site, but it needs (to my mind) to be more than that. Is it hard? – Yes. Icefall is almost up to 1000 copies into the market – fact is the split is eBook is outselling print by at least 2 to 1. Quick book to market for this month is the Fred Cook Biography which has had its release date bought forward from 2015 to next month; should be great and full of those stories from the tough blokes and times of VFA – then the fall from fame to recovery. The PR will be highly visible in Victoria and I think it will reprint prior to Father’s Day.
Good Reading DJ PS – You may be concerned about the word – processies The speakers at BEA use it all the time – I guess I understand what it means
August 2014 New Title Releases Our House is Certainly Not in Paris ISBN
9781922129482
Author
Susan Cutsforth
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292
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9781922129321
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01/08/2014
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Travel writing/Memoirs
Publisher
Melbourne Books
154
Sequel to the bestselling 'Our House is Not in Paris'. Join for the first time, or continue to share in this sequel, the French renovee trials and triumphs of Susan and Stuart Cutsforth, an 'ordinary' Australian couple. Our House is Certainly Not in Paris is a magical memoir about their renovation of an old farmhouse in France. They devote their holidays to breathing life back into its ancient stone walls. It is so charmingly written that the reader is transported to their petite village and the people in this book become like old friends. This is a story about achieving dreams. It makes you want to grab life with both hands.
Our House is Not in Paris Author
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Susan Cutsforth
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9781922129284
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Memoirs
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01/11/2013
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256
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Susan Cutsforth and her husband, Stuart, are 'ordinary' people living an extraordinary life. They both work full‐time: one is a teacher librarian of thirty years, and the other, a middle‐level clerk in the public service. But, as Susan recounts, they own a holiday house, Pied de la Croix, in Cuzance, a small village in south‐western France ‐ the other side of the world. And not only that, this petite maison required significant renovating, which they accomplished almost singlehandedly during their working holidays. Our House is Not in Paris is a story of pushing boundaries, aiming high and, most of all, taking risks. With humour, poetry and insight, Susan's story shows that you can do more than simply dream...
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August 2014 New Title Releases Hello Baby
Parenting with Confidence: A Tresillian Guide
ISBN
9780992527709
Author
Cathrine Fowler
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P/B
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235
Pages
382
eBook ISBN
9780992527716
Published
01/06/2014
Category
Advice on parenting
Publisher
Palmer Higgs
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Whether you’re a first‐time parent looking for reassurance or a more experienced parent coping with a challenging child, this book can help. Tresillian Family Care Centres have been providing help to Australian families for almost a century and this book offers an indispensable guide to topics including: • Getting started as a parent • Basic care of your baby • Growth and development during the first year of life • Early brain development • Building your relationship with your baby • Infant nutrition • Sleep and settling your baby • Baby’s health and safety • Returning to work • Travelling with your baby First formed as the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies in 1918, Tresillian has been at the forefront of infant care ever since and Hello Baby! is the product of a great history combined with the latest research and offers essential advice to ensure the health and happiness of both baby and parent. About the Author Cathrine is the Professor for the Tresillian Chair in Child and Family Health at the Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, University of Technology Sydney. She has extensive experience as a child and family health nurse, educator and researcher. Cathrine is the mother of two sons.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Network Centred Leadership How to lead in an increasingly complex and interconnected world ISBN 9781920681937 Author
Charles Carnegie
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P/B
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290
Published
01/07/2014
Category
Business strategy
Publisher
Longueville Media Pty Ltd
Companies now face a more volatile, unpredictable and complex environment than ever before. Established businesses are breaking down and for many new growth models are not yet clear. To deal with this new reality, many companies are rolling out new collaborative approaches and technologies that connect people in new and powerful ways. Many experienced leaders are confident they will be able to figure out how to use these new social approaches and platforms as they go along. They personally use Linked‐in or Facebook and think it will be easy. Unfortunately it is not. In most companies it is not clear how these new collaborative technologies will deliver better business outcomes. While nobody believes that it can happen to them, 70% of initiatives will fail. The result will simply be more confusion, frustration and cognitive overload. The sad reality is that many leaders are still trying to apply management approaches that are decades old. They are at a significant disadvantage to the next generation of ‘digital native’ leaders who grew using social platforms and collaborative learning as their default position. If you rely on email, ‘top down’ strategy development and situational leadership, then Network‐Centred Leadership is written for you. It provides a practical leadership approach that can complement your existing approach and help protect your career. Used well, it will help you to build effective teams, leverage new social platforms and lead successfully in today’s increasingly complex and interconnected world.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Slush Pile
ISBN
9781922186492
Author
Ian Shadwell
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P/B
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210
Pages
206
Published
01/06/2014
Category
Fiction & related items
Publisher
Puncher & Wattmann
150
Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that had him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since then, there's been nothing but false starts and dead ends. He can't even finish a short story. With debt collectors at the door, the cellar empty and the mortgage on the line, it's crunch time. His wife, Tanya,issues an ultimatum: get a job or get a divorce. Forced into assessing his literary agent's slush pile to help make ends meet, Michael discovers a dark gem. He rewrites it to make it his own. His publisher loves it and fame beckons and his literary standing soars ...until the real author appears. Slush Pile is a satire of literary ambition. About the Author Ian Shadwell has supported Kylie Minogue, exhibited his paintings in several galleries and written both rock and art criticism for leading Australian websites and magazines, Slush Pile is his first novel. Publicity Publicist Debbie McInnes has been appointed
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August 2014 New Title Releases Begin With The End In Mind The Untold Story of the City2Surf ISBN
9780987515735
Author
Chris Edwards
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$50.00
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P/B
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295
Pages
280
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Biography: sport
Publisher
Body of Work
210
The Sydney City2Surf is the largest event of its type in the world. Race record holder Steve Moneghetti says, ‘This book spans generations with its account of incredible stories of everyday Australians who are still running strongly into their 60s, 70’s and even their 80s.’ Chris Edwards is the youngest of the City2Surf Legends. He has run in the event 43 times. His grandmother was a member of the first City to Surf organising committee and his father had a long working association with the event’s original Race Director, George Carruthers. Foreword by Steve Moneghetti
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August 2014 New Title Releases Fabulous Fred The Strife & Times of Fred Cook ISBN
9781922129475
Author
Paul Amy
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$29.95
Binding
P/B
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235
Pages
240
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Biography & True Stories
Publisher
Melbourne Books
154
Fred Cook is one of the great Melbourne stories that combines the life of a true legend of football with exploits of true crime! Fred was a champion footballer who started his career with Footscray in the VFL and then went to Port Melbourne where, in the 1970s he enjoyed fame akin to a pop star. He was on TV, radio and wrote newspapers columns, and was (and still is) best pals with Sam Newman. But he fell in with a bad crowd (Dennis Allen and the Pettingills, no less), formed a drug habit, lost everything and did three spells in prison. Cook has led a remarkable life, going from hero to zero in three years. He’s always wanted to tell his story, which has elements of football, crime and drugs and the wider issue of sportsmen and women who struggle with life once their careers have ended. Fred Cook’s name still resonates with many football fans, 30 years after his career finished. In fact, last year he was nominated for the Australian football hall of fame. About the Author Paul Amy has been a journalist in Melbourne for over 20 years and is currently the Sports Editor for Leader Newspapers and writes for Inside Football. Foreword by Sam Newman
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August 2014 New Title Releases School Days of a Methodist Lady A Journey through Girlhood ISBN
9780980757095
Author
Jill Sanguinetti
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Binding
P/B
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234
Pages
256
eBook ISBN
9780987178596
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Memoirs
Publisher
Wild Dingo Press
154
This book is about a girl, a school and a family in Australia in the 1950s and 60s… In 1958, Jill left her home in the Victorian town of Kyabram to attend Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC) as a boarder. In this coming‐of‐age memoir she interleaves her MLC story with lively vignettes of her early school years, the family newsagency, church, and country community life. This is a deeply personal account of teenage struggles with parental and sibling relationships and with MLC’s discipline, study demands, tough living conditions and rigorous religious education. Jill’s daily life as a school boarder, her rebellions, emotional highs and lows, and encounters with Dr Wood, MLC’s charismatic principal and pastor, are described with honesty, hilarity and sharp critical insight. Jill embarked on her memoir following the chance discovery of the letters that she and her sister had written from MLC fifty years ago: I wanted to write a book about it: for MLC students, teachers and Old Collegians, to feed their sense of history and their remembrances; for other one‐time school boarders; for young people struggling to grow through life’s complexities; and for myself, to venture into a dark and musty corner of my soul and give it an airing. Through the letters we learn about Jill’s clashes with teachers and house mistresses, inspiration from learning and music, and her striving to come to terms with contradictoriness in a school that was “revolting and terrific at the same time”.
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August 2014 New Title Releases The Little Book of Sunshine ISBN
9780987299345
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$19.99
Binding
P/B
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164
Pages
96
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Gift books
Publisher
Next Big Think
164
Brighten up someone’s day with this beautiful book of sunshine filled with inspirational words and exquisite photographs of animals. The Little Book of Sunshine is the perfect gift to make someone special smile. Combine your own heartfelt message along with the uplifting words of others, to bring a smile to someone’s face and create fond memories each time they open it. The Little Book of Sunshine will be a treasured keepsake for years to come.
Also Available The Little Book of Dreams Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Thank You ‐ Cats Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Comfort Author
David Cuschieri
ISBN‐13
9780987299338
ISBN‐13
9780987107572
ISBN‐13
9780987107565
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The Little Book of Families Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Wisdom Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Friends Author
David Cuschieri
ISBN‐13
9780987107558
ISBN‐13
9780980764994
ISBN‐13
9780980764932
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The Little Book of Mums Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Happiness: Dogs Author
David Cuschieri
The Little Book of Hugs Author
David Cuschieri
ISBN‐13
9780980764970
ISBN‐13
9780980764956
ISBN‐13
9780980764949
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August 2014 New Title Releases Dog Days A Dog's Guide To Beating The Blues ISBN
9780987299352
Author
David & Heidi Cuschieri
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$19.99
Binding
P/B
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164
Pages
96
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Gift books
Publisher
Next Big Think
164
Everyone has those days when it is all too much. Dogs have those days too, yet they have a resilience and wisdom that soon sees their tails wagging no matter what life throws at them. This little book is the perfect gift for yourself or for someone going through a rough patch providing comfort and inspiration to help make it through.
Also Available Doggie Dreaming
Cat Napping
A Dog's Guide to Living In The Moment
A Cat's Guide To Slowing Down
Author
David Cuschieri
Author
David Cuschieri
ISBN‐13
9780987299321
ISBN‐13
9780987299314
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$19.99
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Binding
P/B
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P/B
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165
165
165
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165
Category
Gift books
Category
Gift books
Published
01/08/2013
Published
01/08/2013
96
Pages
Pages Publisher
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The Next Big Think Pty Ltd
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August 2014 New Title Releases Port Douglas ‐ Journey Series ISBN
9780646912257
Author
Steven Nowakowski
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$14.99
Binding
H/B
Height | Width
148
Pages
64
Published
01/06/2014
Category
Photographs: collections
Publisher
Steven Nowakowski
210
In Stock Now Steven has been photographing Australia's wild landscapes for many years, concentrating mostly on capturing the essence of Australia's diversity in panoramic format. Steven holds a deep love for Australia's landscapes and unique ecosystems. The images contained on this site are just fleeting glimpses of scenes that have unveiled themselves to Steven at a moment in time. Propelled by a deep sense of connection to this country, Steven Nowakowski has managed to carve a path with large format photography, a career enabling him to remain in tune with where his heart lies. Port Douglas is the sixth book in his Journey Series
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9780987274830
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9780980500271
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Cairns Journey 9780980500240
ISBN‐13
9780980500202
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August 2014 New Title Releases Buy Me, Hire Me, Promote Me
ISBN
9781922118257
Author
Nicola Barnard
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Binding
P/B
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234
Pages
212
eBook ISBN
9781742984360
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Sales & marketing
Publisher
Global Publishing Group
153
Personal Branding Matters…. It is not that hard to be famous for 15 seconds. What is more important and challenging is to be remembered, and foster trust, long term. The key to making ourselves interesting to others and attracting success is to “own who we are”. Whether you are a job seeker, corporate professional or business owner, if longer term relationships and influence are your goals, then this book is for you. International author and Personal Branding expert Nicola Barnard shows you how to create an authentic and consistent image and build a positive reputation. Her comprehensive guide is an insurance policy for your long‐term personal and professional success. Inside You’ll Learn: • How to avoid painful, costly mistakes that can sabotage your professional prospects and career progression. • What your own unique Personal Brand message should include. • The insider trade secrets to buying smart and dressing well. • The 10 essential elements of communicating with confidence. • The Step‐by‐Step Plan to an organised and influential image. • The critical steps you MUST take to protect your reputation. • How to supercharge your power of attraction, for professional or personal success.
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August 2014 New Title Releases To Eat or Not To Eat A Women's Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating ISBN 9781922118332 Author
Evonne Englezos
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Binding
P/B
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234
Pages
212
eBook ISBN
9781742984353
Published
01/08/2014
Category
Women's health
Publisher
Global Publishing Group
153
THE KEY THINGS YOU MUST KNOW TO OVERCOME BODY, WEIGHT AND FOOD ISSUES. International Authors, Speakers, Eating Disorder Experts and Leadership Consultants, Evonne Englezos & Sue Paton share their wisdom and years of practical, hands on experience of Eating Disorders. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, this book “To Eat or Not to Eat” will show you how to achieve freedom from your body, weight and food obsessions and create the life you were meant to have. This insightful book shares Evonne’s personal journey to recovery from body, weight and food issues along with the professional experience of Psychotherapist Sue Paton. You will discover: • The secrets of disordered eating that industry professionals don’t want you to know. • Why you can’t do it on your own and why willpower alone is not enough • The hidden messages behind your food choices and body size • Why you care what other people think and how this drives the disordered eating • How to break through the belief that disordered eating is a life sentence • How to avoid painful costly mistakes that keep you stuck • How to get a quiet mind away from food & weight obsession “The professionalism and dedication Sue and Evonne bring to the field of disordered eating is extraordinary. Their commitment to bringing cutting edge treatment to Australia has been a joy to experience” Dr Anita Johnston, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon.
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August 2014 New Title Releases
Coles 100 Years of Quality, Service & Value ISBN
9780987371898
Author
Neil Montagnana-Wallace
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$29.95
Binding
H/B
Height | Width
253
Pages
144
Publisher
01/03/2014
Category
Australian Social History
Publisher
Bounce Books Pty Ltd
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As a rush of customers descend upon the store on that Thursday in April 1914, GJ was pleased when a policeman appeared, assuming that he was here to 'quell the throng'. GJ greeted him eagerly and thanked him for 'coming to help quieten the crowd'. The officer, however, was not there to keep the peace. In fact, GJ remembers he was acting on a higher authority. 'A policeman came to help because of the rush and I asked him how much it would cost if he were to stay and help all day. He replied that if he could have one of the bowls for his wife he would stay around until things quietened down' You can't know where you are going until you know where you have been , and whilst much has changed at Coles, the focus on customer satisfaction remains the same as it was on that energetic opening day.
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This book celebrates Coles’ one hundred year history of providing quality, service and value to the Australian community. In addition to celebrating the last 100 years, the intent of the book is to reinforce corporate culture and strengthen Coles reputation as an Australian business with a long‐standing heritage of supporting the community. Further to this, the book served as recognition of employees and gift to stakeholders of the business.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Lilah ISBN
9780992275112
Author
Gemma Liviero
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$29.95
Binding
P/B
Height | Width
230
Pages
336
Published
01/03/2014
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Florence Publishing
150
Lilah was left on the front steps of the monastery in Gus. Who is she? What is she? Why can she perform the miracle of healing? After her skill is revealed, and she is branded a child of Satan, Lilah is forced to leave her close friend, Arianne, and the only home she has ever known. At fifteen, she begins a new life outside the walls of the monastery to learn that people are not always what they appear. When first love is replaced by tragedy – at the hands of a vicious landowner – Gabriel, a mysterious, enchanting observer, comes to Lilah’s aid. Taken to a castle, deep in the forest, she will discover secrets from her past – which someone wanted buried – and her fate will entwine with the darkest of legends.
Also By Gemma Liviero Pastel Orphans Author
Gemma Liviero
ISBN‐13
9780646904856
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Binding
P/B
Height | Width
227
Category
Historical fiction
Published
01/12/2013
Pages
350
Publisher
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As a small boy, Henrik watches his world crumble around him as Germany falls under Nazi control and his Jewish friends are sent away. In his own unique telling, Henrik confides in the reader the events surrounding World War II, as his family is plunged into fear and uncertainty. When his sister is stolen by Germans for Aryan testing, and his mother is injured during the kidnapping, Henrik's childhood is cut short. Determined, brave, and unfailingly loyal to his sister and those who befriend him, Henrik will play his part in the fight against this strange new world of violence and oppression. And love will arise from the fragments of broken lives. "Liviero writes a dramatic, heartfelt tale based on a little‐known aspect of the Holocaust....An absorbing account of loyalty and love in wartime, freshened by unusual historical events."‐Kirkus Reviews
Florence Publishing
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August 2014 New Title Releases Adventures in the Ladies Loo stories from the Red Cross tea rooms ISBN
9780992437527
Author
Donna Clare Williams
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$19.95
Binding
P/B
Height | Width
210
148
Pages Published
01/08/2014
Category
Fiction & related items
Publisher
Panther Publising
Below the bus stop outside Brisbane City Hall there is a place filled with secret activities reserved just for ladies. The sign at the door warns: No boys allowed over the age of six. What goes on in those rooms? Mavis, a little lady with attitude calls the rooms ‘The Ladies Loo,’ where ladies of all ages can embark on adventures denied to male society. Adventures, you ask? What kind of adventures? Mavis tells all. She records everything she sees as she sits close to the tea counter in her beloved ladies loo, in letters to absent friends, and philosophies about the joys and mysteries of a world without men. Find out about this special society where ladies can be themselves, in a place they call their own. About The Author After a long academic career Donna Williams established a magazine publishing and marketing business. One of her companies, Australian Print Brokers, published the best-selling picture book, The Human Factor of World Expo 88. Her interest in writing began early when she wrote several collections of poetry and a few books, just for her own amusement. Some of her poetry will appear shortly in an oral history of the Brisbane 2011 flood, compiled for Christ Church St Lucia. Whilst a parishioner at St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane, Donna was commissioned to write a series of meditations on the religious symbolism of the eagle, the image associated with St John. She was also invited to interview family members of one of the former Deans of the Cathedral, and published the resulting article in the Eagle magazine, a Cathedral publication. Donna’s habit of recording in writing many interesting events and behaviours from observations in daily life led her to writing about one of her favorite places: the Ladies Rest Rooms under Brisbane City Hall. These rooms were popularly known as the Red Cross Tea Rooms. After she attended a Brisbane City Council video presentation about the refurbishment of Brisbane City Hall, the City Hall Renovations Media Department invited her to place excerpts from Adventures in the Ladies Loo in their display book entitled My Story. Publicist Scott Eathorne has been appointed. Phone: 03 9762 9100 | Fax 03 9762 9200 Email: orders@dennisjones.com.au
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August 2014 New Title Releases Whispering Wind Adventures In Arnhem Land
ISBN
9781920681845
Author
Syd Kyle‐Little
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01/08/2014
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‘… a first class account by one of the great characters of the Territory. There were always decent Australians of all races and colours who formed friendships across artificial barriers and respected individuals as individuals. Let this book serve to restore some balance.’ ‐ The Honourable Austin Asche QC, Administrator (Ret’d), Northern Territory For more than a century the savagery of the indigenous tribes of Arnhem Land kept the white man at bay. Explorers passing through the rugged hinterland fired rockets at night to frighten off hostile tribesmen; there were chilling reports of cannibalistic rites. Into this country, at the end of the Second World War, came the young Syd Kyle‐Little, patrol officer in the Australian Native Affairs Branch. His first assignment was to stop a tribal war. Between 1946 and 1950, on foot and by canoe, through crocodile‐infested rivers, Kyle‐Little made five, long patrols in the Arnhem Land reserve that stretches across the top of northern Australia. He arrived in this hostile land with the white man’s law, and soon realised that often the black man’s law was better. Kyle‐Little’s ambition was to preserve indigenous tribal and ceremonial life within the Arnhem Land. He intended his courageous actions to be incidental to the story, but they cannot be ignored, and when accounts of his thrilling adventures have been forgotten, the memory of Kyle‐Little’s life will stand as a stirring example of human endeavour. Whispering Wind was originally published in 1957.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Footprints of a Twentieth Century Educator Lawrie Shears ISBN
9781925000535
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Eleanor Peeler
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01/08/2014
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Biography & True Stories
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Hybrid Publishers
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The Lawrie Shears story records an important history of education in Victoria during the twentieth century. During a time of unprecedented growth, stories told in this book address emerging trends, educational philosophies and administrative practice. They explore these in relation to Shears: how they informed his performance; how they directed his endeavours; how they influenced his philosophies and shaped his policies in each of the roles he filled. The book tells the story of schools and classrooms, teachers and students and the people who worked in the system. It traces the influence of transnational flows of knowledge, philosophies and policy. Paying homage to the contributions of Shears and other key players, it records a significant social history; identifies the roots of today’s education system and presents a platform for further research. About the author Dr Eleanor Peeler MACE is a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She is the co‐author of ‘Professional identity and pedagogical space: negotiating difference in teacher workplaces’, Teaching education, vol. 18, no. 2. Marketing: Launch at University of Melbourne by Field Rickards, Dean of Education at the University of Melbourne in 2004 and past President of the Academic Board; several events planned, reunions in Sept, Oct 14.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Hergesheimer in the Present Tense
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9781925000337
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Morris Lurie
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Thirty stories in the incomparably distinctive voice of the author whose publishing career started with the comic novel Rappaport. One story starts with “I won a house in a lottery”, and proceeds to career seemingly out of control – except it isn’t. Other stories open in equally startling fashion. Try: “Hergesheimer flees his marriage in a twenty‐four‐ year‐old car …”; “How do you steal from a thief?”; “Show me a man without tantrum and I’ll show you a man without blood”; “The prettiest damsel in many a moon drops a smile in Hergesheimer’s direction, which he, ever the gallant, snatches expertly up, with a bow courteously returns.” About the Author Born in Melbourne, Morris Lurie is an acclaimed Australian writer. Lurie’s vast body of work includes novels, short stories, non‐fiction collections and children’s books, among them his first comic novel Rappaport, his autobiography Whole Life and a book voted by Australian schoolchildren as their favourite, The Twenty‐Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race. Lurie’s self‐exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction. Lurie is best known for his short stories. He has been published in many prestigious magazines including The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly, Punch, The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, Transatlantic Review, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Quadrant and Westerly. Lurie was the recipient of the Patrick White Award in 2006.
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August 2014 New Title Releases Writing to the Edge Prose poems and microfiction ISBN
9781925052022
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Linda Godfrey Ali Jane Smith
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190
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01/07/2014
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Short stories
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Spineless Wonders
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‘If the art of the short story is knowing what to leave out, what is the art of microfiction? The 32 authors included in Writing to the Edge demonstrate many ways of making much from little. In pieces ranging in length from a few pages to a line or two, they intrigue, amuse, sadden and enlighten us in turn. Their carefully chosen words and striking images provide vivid glimpses into other lives, other places, other minds.’ PROF. ELIZABETH WEBBY AM ‘Here is tight, thoughtful writing that stays with the reader after the page is closed.’ SHADY COSGROVE 'New voices, new ideas, refreshed old ones and all in degustation morsels to get those creative and imaginative juices flowing. There are terse epigrams full of resonance and affect, gnomish haikus of condensed truth, pithy aphorisms from Melbourne to Marrakesh, from Sydney to Paris.’ KATHLEEN MARY FALLON Contributors Includes invited authors and finalists from the 2013 joanne burns Award: Stevi-Lee Alver, Kate Andrews-Day, Cassandra Atherton , Kathleen Bleakley, Jude Bridge, Julie Chevalier, Moya Costello, Nick Couldwell, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Romana Dalgleish, Alexia Derbas, Kevin Gillam, Phil Hammial, Jonathon Hawden, Tim Heffernan, Hilary Hewitt, Elizabeth Hodgson, Richard Holt, Alana Kelsall, Patrick Lenton, Marjorie Lewis-Jones, Joshua Lobb, Natasha Luka, Susan McCreery, Alyson Miller, jenni nixon, Mark O’Flynn, Ron Pretty, Mark Roberts, Brenda Saunders, Mark Smith, Andrew Stuckgold
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August 2014 New Title Releases Letterature FIRM SALE Verse letters from Australian women ISBN
9781925000627
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Timoshenko Aslanides
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01/06/2014
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Poetry
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Hybrid Publishers
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“Apart from this present compilation, then, there appear to be no collections of verse‐letters written by men in the personas of women since Ovid’s Heroides. I found this quite surprising, because to my accomplished literary taste, such a verse‐letter has a number of quite useful qualities, all of which I’ve drawn upon for the letters and diary‐entries and reports that I’ve retrospectively placed in the hands of some exceptional Australian women.” – Timoshenko Aslanides About the Author Timoshenko Aslanides’ first book of poems, The Greek Connection, won him the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1978 for the best first book of poems in English, published the previous year in the British Commonwealth of Nations. In his numerous subsequent books of poetry he has sought to describe and affirm what it is to be an Australian and to celebrate the natural and built environment of the country, and the history and imaginative genius of the people.
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Suzanne Burdon
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Killard Publishing
Two women worlds apart... one secret that changes everything. Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel. Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney, not only does she land the perfect job, but she meets the perfect man. Finally, her life is falling into place. Except Sydney isn't home, and never can be. Back in Ireland, Laura is struggling. Her husband appears distant, her work life is spinning out of control and her daughter's strange new nanny is undermining her at every turn. She longs to travel in Erin's footsteps, to drop everything and run far away. But these are dangerous thoughts for a mother and wife. As Erin and Laura desperately try to find their place in the world, a shocking family secret comes to light, and nothing will ever be the same again. 'Ber Carroll has given us a cast of warm, engaging characters in a sparkling story that crosses the globe between Ireland and Australia. I enjoyed every page of this touching, authentic novel.' - Liane Moriarty.
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"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two years in a scandalous relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married with children. The novel was conceived in a contest with him and Lord Byron to tell ghost stories. When she eloped with Shelley, Mary had been quite prepared to suffer condemnation from society. It was much harder to cope with her jealousy of Claire, her step‐sister, who had run away with them and was also in love with Shelley. During the nine turbulent years Mary and Shelley were together, Claire was the ever‐present third, whose manipulative behaviour often drove Mary to despair. Shelley was little help ‐ his unconventional attitudes to love strained her devotion to its limits.
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01/04/2013
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The Vietnam War is now largely forgotten - except by those who lived through it and suffered its consequences, and especially the hundreds of thousands who later fled by boat from communist oppression, the original boat-people. Paul Quinn, former spy and old Indochina hand, had seen the end of the war and its after-effects. Now retired from the intelligence game, he lives an uneventful life in Sydney. But when the beautiful, vulnerable Hao Tran, a widow with a tragic past, comes seeking his help to rescue her adopted son from a group of die-hard extremists in Sydney's Vietnamese community, he can't refuse. Deeply moved by her story, and falling in love, he quickly plunges into a dangerous web of emigre politics, where old enmities are kept alive by dreams of revenge and violence is not far below the surface. Turning for support to his old employer, he discovers that they too have an agenda of their own... From the last days of Saigon to its deadly finish in modern-day Sydney, this story of passionate love and political intrigue presents a penetrating insight into the long-term plight of former Vietnamese boat-people, still struggling to come to terms with the past long after they've resettled into more welcoming lands - and the machinations of intelligence agencies playing for high political stakes.
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Ari, a heroin addict, is on a journey that takes him half way round the world, in an attempt to escape the entrapment of addiction, but rather than finding an exit to the abyss, he falls deeper into the grip of his nightmare. The story unfolds in a series of events, spanning over several decades, involving people and places from the darker fringes of life; some disturbing, some humorous. All told in a series of stories, not in chronological order, but depicted in the timeline that heroin addiction dictates.
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Garry Willmott
In a series of four books based on war, each with a different focus, G.S. Willmott has extensively researched war 'histories' and from them, has created 'his stories'. This, the fourth and most compelling, recreates a multitude of experiences of the young men caught up in the frenzy and futility of World War 1. Sex and death, eternal themes, bind together these individual stories; the shared experiences of love and death are the strong bonds which link these young Australian and British soldiers across France, Egypt, Flanders, even Syria. Their suffering is what makes us think deeply about ongoing conflicts which eternally destroy human lives and from which we seem to have learned nothing. In Red Lights on the Somme, Willmott unearths surprising and positive aspects of war; man's inhumanity to man is counter-pointed by mateship between soldiers, tenderness between lovers, and trust and inter-dependence between humans and animals. The contrast between the nobility and loyaty of non-humans (including dogs, pigeons, horses) forms a stark contrast against the brutality and treachery of mankind.
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This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten furrows of French fields. The author tells this story in a simple direct style which has an immediate impact. Garry Willmott's ancestors are among those who lost their lives fighting against the Kaiser's Juggernaut. The characters of the soldiers come to life and even in death, their spirits are revived in the telling. The courage of our soldiers and their betrayal by British Generals moves the reader to sorrow and to anger as we witness not only the terrible personal suffering of the soldiers, but also the long‐term effects upon families left behind.
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Geoff Barr
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9781742983479
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9781743350089
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Biography: historic
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01/12/2013
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Garry Willmott
This is an extraordinary story, one which provides insights into the dualities of human nature, especially against a background of war. We are confronted with the potential within all of us for both heroism and cowardice, honesty and deception, altruism and greed; there is, in the intensity of war-time, a heightened awareness of moral dilemmas, choices between good and evil which have eternally confronted humankind. Weaving an intriguing narrative, the author confronts his readers also with the question: where does truth lie? At what point can one depart from contextual history to enter the world of fiction and imagination? Brothers in Arms provides a rare balance between well-researched historical fact and convincingly imagined events and characters; the plot, with its constant surprises and multiple twists, Is a tour de force and sustains tension and suspense until the final pages. By creating the personal tragedy of an imagined family within the social, cultural and historical framework of three wars and three continents, Garry Wilmott provides illuminating facts, thought-provoking questions and a constantly engaging read.
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"The mythology surrounding the Australian digger in World War One (WWI) and his inability to adhere to military discipline is legendary. In this book I explore the myth of the digger, and draw on primary sources to expose the Australian Expeditionary Force as the most ill‐disciplined army of WWI" Geoff Barr explores the role of the Military Police and the myth of the digger during World War I. Furthermore, he explores why members of the AIF were referred to as six‐bob‐a‐day tourists and their fondness for going Absent Without Leave when it suited them or deserting when the going got too tough.
Welcome to John Leonard Press Stone Postcard
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Paul Magee
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9780980852394
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A Bud
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Kevin Brophy begins this selection of his poetry, tracing back to the early 1980s, with a book‐length section of new poems, the fruit of the past five years of writing. His five previous poetry volumes are all represented with substantial selections ‐ reviewed widely, those books are now out of print. The new work comes from a poet who has long made rich, intimate, lyrical and disturbing poetry about Melbourne's inner‐northern urban streets and backyards, about memory and family, and more lately about the seemingly natural surrealism of the mind. The domain is home to psychology, and perhaps philosophy. But the tracking of thought in Brophy's poems is continually grounded in the senses, and he is alert to the uniqueness of ordinary human occasions. He is a master of tonality and nuance.
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9780977578702
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Paul Magee
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9780977578719
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Cube Root of Book
Claire, Gaskin
Robert Gray 9780980852356
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The title poem in Stone Postcard is a passionate drama that thinks through the close kinship of solace and trauma, something neither private nor public, and always waiting. The book as a whole moves with that spacious idea. The focus is intense, as you might expect. The tone, at the same time, is often laconic. There are two Parts. The first, starting with a birth and fractured family, has an intimate scope; the second carries questions of belonging out to wider horizons. Paul Magee's variety takes in a policeman embracing an exploding man in Iraq, the international committee that met to recalibrate the metre in 1983, a keyhole view, a toddler at the beach, visits to an office of Employment Plus, and to New Jersey. Virgil's detailed, horrific account of war's chaos in the siege of Latium unfolds a nine‐page climax to the book.
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Cumulus, New and Collected Poems
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Walking
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John Leonard Press
This book is a landmark in Australian poetry. For Cumulus, Robert Gray has chosen all he wishes to retain from his eight volumes of poetry, some of it considerably and significantly revised. He has included here a new book, 'Nameless Earth', not previously published in Australia. Gray has been a daring and original experimenter in the free verse line, and also at times with traditional forms. Equally, his work is notable for its frequent, uncanny rightness in the creation of images. His thinking shows a remarkable fluency in both Eastern and Western philosophies (Gray has referred to himself as a Buddhist heretic). These are all modernist pathways, and this poetry negotiates them with a lucid, classical temper. Most striking is an ever‐alert immediacy‐a perception and reflectiveness in the fluid moment. Whether through his sensuous language or his powerful engagement with ideas, Gray's poetry continually opens us to a fresh involvement with the physical world. Cumulus ‐
The Passion Paintings: Poems 1983‐2006
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Aileen Kelly
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9780977578726
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01/12/2006
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01/05/2009
Published
01/11/2006
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These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic. The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections take the daily things and emotions, with a background of rural Victoria in some of the imagery; and its rhythms feel fresh to a syllable. There is no modish nervousness towards language's impotence. Claire Gaskin, in a style that she formed by the mid‐eighties, keeps a modernist confidence in expressiveness. The poems here have been matured from two to twenty years, with an artist's instinct not to hurry. The words seem incised on the page for a long term. A bud was shortlisted for the John Bray Prize in the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
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Pages John Leonard Press
Read this sequence through from page one, or start at any point and let its circles widen, or perhaps go to the lovely, light‐syllabled final lyric and discover interesting ways back. The poems themselves breach back and forth to form a questing autobiography of precipitate adulthood. They breathe into this, for perspective, the author's fascination with some of the world's outer and inner mazes: art, media, brain dysfunction, political dysfunction, Russia. Each chapter includes Paul Magee's translation from one of the Latin poets. The book's symmetries and its title portend no arcane numerology. But they do make a point about necessity. The poems well up from roots; they are caught and crafted, as anyone will know who speaks them. Cube Root of Book was shortlisted for the Innovation Award at the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
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John Leonard Press
The Passion Paintings gathers ‐ thus far ‐ an oeuvre. Here is 'Book Three', a full‐length collection of new poems by Aileen Kelly; and alongside it is most of the poetry that appeared in her earlier two books. The energy that made Coming Up for Light a celebrated first book in 1994 ‐ still so fresh in the first fifty pages here ‐ emerges as a driving into an intricate poetic. Aileen Kelly writes lyrics of emotional and intellectual force, and wit. They feel personal but forbid sentimentality. From the start, she has had acid and mourning poems about atrocity. There are also reflections on the intimate arc that plays between the poet's home in Melbourne and her youth in England. By the time of City and Stranger in 2002, it is evident that the topic is existence. 'On the planet's rim', our common exposure is equally political and personal ‐ and yes, physical. A Kelly motif is a finding of the numinous in the undeniably secular. This is quietly intensified in some of the poems in Book Three: both in the
Welcome to John Leonard Press Ocean Island
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The Incoming Tide
Julian Croft
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9780977578733
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Petra White
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9780977578740
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Julian Croft's imaginative territory will be familiar to many from his earlier collections of poetry ‐ a swathe of the NSW coast and hinterland, and its people. The intensity of the meditation of self into society and place feels new. Ocean Island has seven meditative arcs that scope onto one another, presenting key dimensions of a life in recall; with an exotic and exact vocabulary for nuance, scientific, philosophical or local. From narrow walls of childhood 'games' to the topography of Newcastle ‐ its lake land, sea‐verge, heavy industry and earthquake ‐ to the pristine surfaces of New England, place becomes the evocation of a life. And time is its medium. Julian Croft writes poems of a classical poise; their vibrancy is in poising, with a historical understanding, upon change. Water and earth, the elements of place, are part of it. See for instance the beautiful final ode.
Letters to the Tremulous Hand
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Thinking ‐ joyous and sly ‐ is the mark of these poems by Petra White. They are odes, elegies, lyric sequences and compact near‐sonnets ‐ classical forms of a strong verbal music: a chiming among consonants and syllables, a flexing of line on line, playing into the mind's play, making poetry's invitation to be uttered. Petra White invests them with free‐verse vigour, while confidently drawing in some of pentameter's gifts of cadence for phrasing. She leans to themes of growing up, yet autobiography is barely the point. 'Grave' gazes as at a mirror image of a cult childhood. 'Highway', written recently, thinks back into a hippie journey at twenty: 'I' sits very lightly ‐ just visible ‐ in these poems, and in the book. 'Southbank', about office work, is satire, and affection. Her concern is quite general: to say something about our time and place, and the surprise of its opening out to worlds of otherness. The Incoming Tide was shortlisted for the 2007 Judith Wright Calanthe Prize in the
Wolf Man Wolf
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Elizabeth Campbell
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9780977578764
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9780977578771
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Vertigo ( a cantata)
LK Holt
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John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston's poetry is known for its rhythmic power, buoying a sharp and often dark intelligence. Vertigo invokes her background in music, using elastically spaced bar‐lines to punctuate its energetic cadences. And, modelled like a cantata, it lays out something of music's paradox ‐ emotional intensity flashing from formal composure. Its poems tell the progress of grief for a lost love. This comes as intricately personal, yet the discernment hits as universal. Open‐voiced arias are interleaved with recitatives that play into unexpected corners of emotion and imagining, with irony and élan. The individual story then disappears into a series of orphic choruses, spoken by a barely determinate 'we' ‐ descants upon displacement as human experience, and the mystery of recovery. Each chorus is a vertiginous tale, made of shards of myth, allegory and idea. Among these, a key motif is powerfully engaged: the sea coast ‐ as respite, meeting place and solvent.
Poems 1980‐2008
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Jan Owen
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9780977578788
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01/11/2007
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01/12/2007
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01/01/2008
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Pages John Leonard Press
Elizabeth Campbell's poems always seem daimonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free‐ verse lines, their questings, turns, and landings. She explores the mind's readiness both to misconceive and ti find a solid world. Her poems are full of tangible objects yielding significance, whether the theme is travelling, singing, dreams, or sacred or secular love ‐ or a recurrent observation of horses: their physical presence, and the veering of their barely graspable consciousness. The ten poems of the title sequence, addressed to a little‐known‐ about medieval scribe, scrupulously view the smallness of the leavings of lives underlying history. These are a remarkable meditation on thinking and solitude.
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L K Holt's poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half‐rhyme (and quarter‐rhyme) and turns found images of this world into blazon. She explores some dark matters ‐ with homages to Goya, through the eyes of his mistress, and to Donne. She has a particular touch with the sensory strangeness in states of extremity; yet the giftedness of life breaks into vision in Holt's poetry with lightness. There is unblinking unamazement at violence; and a lively vein of the erotic. Both have a part in the carved meditations of two monologues at the book's centre, 'Unfinished Confession' and 'Long Sonnets of Leocadia'. Their scope of knowledge and understanding, with flourishing irony in the one and a just‐smiling humanity in the other, seems effortlessly summoned. Man Wolf Man was awarded the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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John Leonard Press
This retrospective by Jan Owen includes a majority of the poems from her first five volumes, with some revisions. Gathered with them is a book‐length collection of new poetry, Laughing in Greek. A large and intricate world is on display, present in capsule on page 1 in 'First Love'. This poem sets going a motif of the airy light and shadow cast by memory of adult and childhood relationships. It also raises the lure of knowledge: Owen's verse is infused with the sciences, and with art, philosophy and history. Her interest is the world itself, and the words for it. When she writes a poem that dwells on a place or a painting ‐ or a memory ‐ it is not as a tourist impressionist but as a thinker and precise sensualist. Jan Owen has a command of wit and tone across a wide range of verse techniques, both formal and free. She moves easily between plain, oblique and surreal. Some of the new poems seem glowing labyrinths of thinking and language ‐ led through by a wonderful clarity of voice and rhythm. Poems
Welcome to John Leonard Press White Knight with Beebox
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Peter Steele
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9780980526905
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the sonnet according to 'm'
Jordie, Albiston
Collected Poems
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Vincent Buckley
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This collection begins with 82 pages of new poems, then follows back through a rich selection from Peter Steele's earlier books. Two volumes of poems on artworks are represented by ones that retain their power separately from illustration. He is a respected poet mainly by repute and glimpses: this gathering shows one of our best, in skill and scope. A worker in traditional forms, he early on perfected his own stress metre, unrhymed and alternating five and four beats ‐ a flexible and driving rhythm for wit and sustained, passionate thinking in the classical tradition of the ode. The effortless range of historical detail is liberating. It plays to our curiosity with references swept in quickly and lightly, turning to precise image as they arrive. Steele has written of poetry's need for 'finger‐tip control... it is always delicacy that delivers the goods'. Just as striking is the emotional range, dark to light. The new sequence 'A Mass for Anglesea', framed after that ceremony, is a kind of essay, variously lyrical and
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Growing Up With Mr Menzies
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Rarely is a book about growing‐up so free from nostalgia, but full of such bittersweet portraits. It is the story of the early years of Felix Hayes, born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne. It is also John Jenkins' meditation ‐ implicit everywhere, and at times direct ‐ on memory and fiction, and on the embodiment of history in the lives of individuals. He is deft with the flexible rhythms of free‐verse forms. The evocations of the secret spaces and places, and the relationships, of childhood are caught with beautiful economy and layering of tones and voices. Threaded through is the iconic figure of Mr Menzies, himself a layered character, as a guide to the Australian era that bears his name.
white camel
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This harvesting of Vincent Buckley's work is a long overdue moment in Australian poetry. Not only was Buckley a profoundly original, steadily changing poet; he was also an intellectual leader in our culture during the politically demanding decades that followed World War Two. His poems, gathered here, bear witness to the conflicts of those years, to his Irish‐Australian heritage, to interactions with modern American poetry and, above all, to his delicately lyrical sense of mortality. A nervous energy pulses everywhere. The last volume of Buckley's poetry appeared in 1991, three years after his death. Roughly three‐quarters of that collection carried his working title, 'A Poetry Without Attitudes', signalling something essential about his later work. Having begun as a poet of haunting rhetorical power, he had gradually pumiced his verse so that it stood clear, without any intrusive sense of the poet's personality. His is a poetry of unique temper, surely. Here you will find the full
Pilbara
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Morgan Yasbincek
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Mark O'Connor
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The letter 'm' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great‐great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other. Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send‐up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind. The sonnet according to 'm' was awarded the 2010 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the 2010
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This third book is a radical departure in Morgan Yasbincek's poetry. A concentrated dialogue with the world around her, displayed in her first two books, gives way to poems that suggest aftermath and new beginning. Their contemplations occur in the spaces left after loss, where love and grief are 'kinds of home without settlement'. They summon up the pluck and rapture of childhood, and the wisdom of religions: Buddhist, Hindu, Judeo‐ Christian, and a resilient and matriarchial animism. The movement of voice here seems to rely on vacuum and echo for its definitions. The poems refract a spectrum of meanings, from inward directness, to inventive allegory. In the key poem 'gimel', the undulating gait of the white camel 'makes this direction into a future'. Yasbincek's own rhythms, as ever, are assured and light‐syllabled. White Camel was shortlisted for the 2010 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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Over his long career Mark O'Connor has made his poetic homes in a succession of Australian regions. Indeed from the time of Homer much of the best literature has been regional. It knows its own place so well that it has no need to be consciously universal; rather the world of readers comes to it. Pilbara alternates brief informative prose with bursts of magnificent free‐verse lyric. O'Connor's gift is for bringing a large array of knowledge to bear in observations of delicate precision, combining awe with a quiet humour. The vastness of Western Australia's dry Pilbara is perceived in these poems, yet not allowed to dominate over its nooks and intimacies ‐ the lives of birds, flowers, trees, and the unexpectedness of water. The 3.65 billion‐year geological history of some of the oldest solidified land surfaces on our planet forms an underpinning. The work effortlessly takes in pre‐history, history and ecology, along with current human realities like mining and grazing. 'Archaean land, in the grip of
Welcome to John Leonard Press Marriage for Beginners
Patience, Mutiny
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Catherine Bateson
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9780980526967
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Phantom Limb
David Musgrave
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All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen‐ liners: free‐verse sonnets if you like‐certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought. The darting variety that marked her prize‐winning first collection has come to a steadier gaze in her second. A nut‐shell account of the book's four parts might describe a movement from familial well‐being‐happy‐being‐to a concluding psalmic sufferance, through reflections on the survival‐feats of boys and men, on the self‐ presence of young women, and on love. That description catches her intimate touch but not her outreach. Holt's writing shows how the present doesn't escape the weight, or the light, of ancient narratives. History stands inside poems of contemporary dailiness, turning them to half‐epic. Patience, Mutiny was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with Petra White's The Simplified World and David Musgrave's Phantom Limb. It was
The Gossip and the Wine
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Petra White 9780980526981
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Catherine Bateson's new poetry collection has at its centre three lively sequences that address the hard graft of spiritual negotiation. Imagined for present, past and future times, each of them tracks the slow and the sudden dissolution of love ‐ yet love stories they are. Her characters are distinctly and originally conceived, with a habitual storyteller's craft. Fore and aft of these sequences are some poems that are more directly reflective. 'Marriage' is the familiar here ‐ or at least the otherness of daughterhood, motherhood and being a lover. 'Beginners', it is suggested, is what we remain. These poems are wise, unillusioned and generous, reminding us that 'each morning/the fat eye of love/ winks back'. The poetry throughout has a confident grasp of telling images, and of tonal and rhythmical tact.
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LK Holt
The Simplified World
Peter Steele
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9780980852301
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John Leonard Press
Like Petra White's applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour the normal mysteries of fate. Her world is large and contemporary, anchored by a young poet's own memories. White inhabits her poems lightly, using personal experience with wit and without self‐pleading. Some of this work shows the shadow of depression: not so much expressing moods as touching on how depression dwells, finding its register so it can speak. A number of poems openly engage with notable depressives of literary history, but we don't need those homages to realise that this poet is a very capacious reader. It is there in her music. Late Lowell and Bishop, along with Harwood, ghost the swift edge in her language. Beyond these, a large tradition of cadences and tropes is absorbed in her fluent free verse lines. The Simplified World was awarded the 2010 Grace
Error
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Elizabeth Campbell
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9780980852318
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David Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual ‐ with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in. Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly. Typically they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark. Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling ‐ and this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably 'The Baby Boomers'. Generosity also drives ‐ as much as an elegant form does ‐ 'Young Montaigne Goes Riding'. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity. Phantom Limb was awarded
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The Gossip and the Wine offers poems that range from buoyant to ironic and sombre. Many of them are occasioned by biblical moments, which they read afresh. These include the remarkable sequence, 'Rounding a Year', which sees common human patterns in the key points of the Christian year. In general, the works and days of antiquity press claims on a sharply imagined modern world. Peter Steele embraces poetic formality as access to both comprehension and mystery: 'formality may itself be a kind of vivacity, and it is a poet's business to ensure that this is how things turn out'. The 'singing' element is present as both a means and a reward for the relishing of the particular. These poems celebrate the world as trove. Offering an abundance of events and items, they commonly imply that there is much more still to be found, appraised and rejoiced in.
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In Error, the idea of the mistake and fear of the mistake infiltrate large territories of emotion and thinking. Each of the five sections that make up this second book of poems by Elizabeth Campbell is a foray into doubt. Three are set in the voluble present, driven by the mysterious fragility of dailiness, through inheritance and childhood. A delicate and idiosyncratic music plays throughout the book. The final sequence, 'A Mon Seul Desir,' is a riveting conclusion. Taking their starting point from the fifteenth century 'Lady and Unicorn' tapestries, these poems are as still and intensely coloured as the tapestries themselves ‐ a passionate concentration on the nature and paradox of love.
Welcome to John Leonard Press And then when the
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Dan Disney
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9780980852325
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Collusion
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01/08/2012
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In Braiding the Voices, Peter Steele brings to bear a lifetime of reading, writing, and teaching prose and poetry. With gusto and focus, these essays concert poets and poems of different tempers and aspirations. They are by Gwen Harwood, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Vincent Buckley and, further afield, Fleur Adcock, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Deborah Randall, Ben Belitt, Norman MacCaig, R.S. Thomas, P.J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The writing of some of his own poems is also addressed. Characteristically, Steele refers copiously also to much else. The book investigates some of the ways in which individual poets have found what they most wanted to say, and how their art takes its place in the general conversation of humanity itself. Applauding the dexterity and the variety with which this feat is carried off by the poets, Steele's distinctive prose is deliberately fashioned to be as hospitable to insight as possible.
Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected
Graeme Miles
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The poets here are Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Sarah Holland‐Batt, L K Holt, Graeme Miles, Simon West and Petra White. And the book is a celebration: large samples of poems from each. Now in their late twenties to mid‐thirties, each has a substantial body of wide‐ranging, stimulating and moving work. Generational groupings of poets are often self‐selected around defined reading interests. In this case it's inclination to devour as much of poetry's past and present traditions as possible, for the wide craft and spirit of the art. The upshot is a particular, persistent élan: intelligence that is free to be daring, with a practised suppleness of free‐verse lines. These poets share the modernists' eclecticism, taken into the postmodern ‐ having grown up with the effects of instant, global communication. The diversity of contemporary experience has a ready and confident home in their art. These are poems of a true distinction.
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Peter Steele
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Recurrence
Brook Emery
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Dan Disney's first full‐length collection of poetry has at its heart a pleasure at surprise. Like Max Ernst's 'fortuitous meeting of distant realities', Disney's sometimes absurd, rhetorically‐deft poems are the result of a questing imagination driving toward knowledge but able to be side‐tracked along stranger, imperative paths. They are restlessly philosophical, and sometimes wildly surreal, and these things go surprisingly well, in Disney's imagination, with sharp, commonsense observation and understatement. The reader of And then when the may well be touched by a melancholy in the wit. The poetry is finely honed: the exactness of words is beautifully savoured in the lines.
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Young Poets: An Australian Anthology
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Marcella Polain
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9780977578795
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Brook Emery's mode is enquiry, with a gentle insistence that enquiry matters. Fluent, occasionally epigrammatic, and showing a quiet humour, this is generous, open‐minded poetry. As in previous collections Emery's interest is in the intersections of the material, the spiritual and the rational. The poems are loosely addressed as letters to some implied correspondent, who might be real, the self or the unconscious. While Collusion is metaphysical in intent, the poems keep up a habit of sharp and tactile observation ‐ the abstract becomes sensuous, and the intellectual makes friends with the physical. Swinging between affirmation and uncertainty, they weigh up the beauty and losses of the natural and human worlds.
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Although we think of the world as spherical, our main directions within it remain 'Down', Across' and 'Up'. These primary directions mark the divisions of this restless book of poems, Recurrence, by Graeme Miles. 'Up' and 'Down' in their different ways move outside the human game, but 'Across' travels ‐ Australia, India and Europe ‐ moving around poles of orientation and disorientation, sleep and waking. Miles' poetry often turns to myth and ritual, but is not absorbed in the past. As the title implies, it is concerned with the resurgence of the apparently past in the present. It is a book of metamorphoses and returns. Central to the collection are some longer poems and sequences. 'Photis' is an oblique short fiction, moving somewhere alongside Apuleius' Golden Ass. 'Verandah' and 'Causes' explore the traces of personal and collective histories, and the subterranean roots of the domestic and familial. Recurrence is an enticing collection that rewards a leisurely reading.
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A full‐length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions. Her lines in those earlier books dance on the page, always seeking a place to leap, and unexpected trajectories. Energy of rhythm and assurance of connection weave a remarkably wide territory of emotional understanding. The setting is Perth and its wheat‐ belt inland; the poems engage personally with the matters of childhood, adulthood and family, and with the girl immigrant's awareness of 'the salt of distant throats'. Polain's new poems focus her essential élan and fierce intelligence on the solitary psyche, summoning grief and fear in a place of stillness and vulnerability. This strikingly immediate poetry is probably her most searching and complex yet. Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2009 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.
August 2014 New Title Releases An A‐Z of Australian Bush Creatures Revised Edition ISBN
9781921526275
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Myke Mollard
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The original, large format editions of Australian Bush Creatures have now been through 6 reprints with over 12,000 copies in print. This standard format paperback edition in bookshelf friendly format of 300 x 230 mm was the result of many book trade requests. From Abalone to Zebra Finch, and the hundreds of creatures in between, this delightfully crafted book explores Australia’s amazingly varied wildlife shown in its natural habitat. Over 400 land, sea and air‐born creatures are organised alphabetically using a mixture of common, scientific and aboriginal names. Each A‐Z plate also explores Australia’s varied landscapes, both natural and introduced. Every page is a journey of discovery for the reader, with many animals as difficult to instantly recognise here, as they are in the bush. To help locate and identify all the bush creatures depicted, informative plates follow the main A‐Z sections and form a visual appendix that will have the reader cross referencing for years to come. Australian Bush Creatures trade edition is thoroughly researched and revised, with every creature meticulously illustrated and placed in its usual habitat. It is , as the illustrator describes it, a window into the world’s second largest eco‐system that will awake a curiosity and love for the extraordinary diversity of the Australian environment and its inhabitants. An A‐Z of Australian Bush Creatures is also a stunning showcase of the artistic skills, imagination and passion for Australian wildlife of Myke Mollard. This wonderful book is destined to become a classic of its kind and a treasured part of any child’s library. About the Author Myke Mollard is a multi talented illustrator, author, mural artist and graphic designer. He has already established a successful career in design, advertising and marketing, and is now pursuing his passion for story telling, both visual and with words. In addition to his superb gifts as a painter and draftsman, Myke has also developed a full range of computer generated graphic skills and he combines all of these elements in his work. Myke takes his inspiration equally from a deep understanding of the Australian bush and its creatures , a thorough knowledge and affection for the tradition of Australian illustrators, and his love of CGI animation, comic book illustration and even graphic novels. Phone: 03 9762 9100 | Fax 03 9762 9200 Email: orders@dennisjones.com.au
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Reprint Available Now Reprint - New ISBN Colour the Kimberley Author
Celia Shelmerdine
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A splendid young children's colouring book featuring the beautiful animals and aboriginal artifacts of our country as the pictures.
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Celia Shelmerdine
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Grab your crayons and colour everything that makes an Australian Winter such a magical and special season of the year. From igloos, snowmen and skiing to reindeer and wombats! From the endangered Mountain Pygmy‐Possum to a chalet with icicles! From snowflakes to hot chocolate with marshmallows! Colour the Snow is one of a series of fun colouring books to help childrenlearn more about Australia.
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August 2014 New Title Releases
The boy from glass Finders ‐ Book 1 ISBN
9780992275136
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J G Lindsay
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01/02/2014
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Florence Publishing
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After a tragedy that left my family even more dysfunctional than before, David appeared in my front garden. Up until then I didn’t think he’d notice someone like me. He was gorgeous, smart, funny, and seemed to understand me better than anyone else. Our night at the jetty together had been the highlight of my life. Then my best friend, Tina, went missing and so did he. And just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse it turns out that David doesn’t really exist and only my autistic brother, Remy, and I could see him. This leaves me wondering, firstly: Did we both imagine him and am I crazy? And, secondly: If he comes back, do I continue going out with him?
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