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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An exciting and contemporary collection by First Nations women and women of colour heralded by ArtsHub as 'exceptional work'.Sweatshop Women is a contemporary collection of prose and poetry written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. In this second volume, Australias most urgent new voices return to reclaim their stories of culture and sovereignty. Featuring Christine Afoa, Sydnye Allen, Maryam Azam, Ferdous Bahar, Flordeliz Bonifacio, Shankari Chandran, Janette Chen, Cindy El Sayed, Phoebe Grainer, Aseel Harb, Amani Haydar, Sheree Joseph, Meyrnah Khodr, Shirley Le, Abeny Mayol, Jessicca Wendy Mensah, Gayatri Nair, Lieu-Chi Nguyen, Sara M Saleh, Christine Shamista, Maryanne Taouk, Divya Venkataraman and Diane Wanasawek. Foreword by Ruby Hamad. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Evocative. Unsettling. Unafraid.Ritual is a ground-breaking new publication which centres and celebrates the diversity of contemporary Muslim-Australian identities and experiences through the timeless power of the written word.As Australias first anthology to showcase the work of Muslim-identifying poets, the collection offers an urgent and necessary contribution to the global tradition of Islamic-inspired poetry fifteen hundred years in the making! As Australia's first-ever publication to showcase the work of Muslim-Australian poets, this ground-breaking new collection centres and celebrates the diversity of contemporary Muslim-Australian identities and experiences. Through the timeless power of the written word, The Muslim Poetry Anthology reaffirms that there is no single way to be Muslim i Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An important collection by First Nations women and women of colour acclaimed by The Sydney Morning Herald as a showcase of 'urgent stories that need to be reckoned with'.Sweatshop Women is an exciting and contemporary collection of prose and poetry written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. In the first volume of this urgent new series, the diverse women of Western Sydney reclaim their stories of love, faith, home and history. Featuring Joy Adan, Christine Afoa, Sydnye Allen, Ferdous Bahar, Claire Cao, Aisha El-Cheikh, Janette Chen, Monikka Eliah, Natalia Figueroa Barroso, Phoebe Grainer, Raveena Grover, Naima Ibrahim, Meyrnah Khodr, Shirley Le, Elaine Lim, Rachel Marie, Jessicca Wendy Mensah, Gayatri Nair, Lieu-Chi Nguyen, Bethany Pal, Christine Shamista, Divya Venkataraman, Diane Wanasawek and Annie XY Zhang. Foreword by Michelle Law. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An integral young adult debut by Armenian-Australian writer, Tamar Chnorhokian. Praised by acclaimed reviewer Emily Mcleod as 'one to assign the new generation of children alongside Looking for Alibrandi'.Zara Hagopian is size 22. She has a secret crush on the hottest boy in school, Pablo Fernandez, who has a skinny girlfriend named Holly. Zara hangs out with her best friends Carmelina and Max. They go window shopping in Parramatta and drink hot chocolate in Stockland Mall. Zara learns some of lifes hard lessons when she puts these friendships on the line and goes on a diet to win the boy of her dreams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This fearless collection is described by Mascara Literary Review as 'value for anyone whose own lives are inextricably bruised by others' fear, hate, and targeted bigotry'.Are we a nation of racists? Thirty-nine writers confront our darkest truths in this fearless collection of short stories, poems and essays from the margins of Australia. Featuring Tyree Barnette, Meyrnah Khodr, Adam Phillip Anderson, Guido Melo, Janette Chen, Riley Ingersole, Sydnye Allen, Chris Tupouniua, Rizcel Gagawanan, Amani Haydar, Christine Shamista, Krisneth Paddy, Ting Huang, Heikmah Napadow, Mark Mariano, Daniel Nour, Monikka Eliah, Shirley Le, Kabien Parker, Ayoub Jama, Ferdous Bahar, Ayusha Nand, Pamela Asare, Natalia Figueroa Barroso, Sara M Saleh, Nellie Tapu Nonumalo Mu, Cassandra Taylor, Noor Abuzamaq, Dezheen Shivan, Fiti Fainifo, Elisha Toese, Mahran Asghari, Lara Ahmed, Sopanha Chea, Yash Bab, Zoyal Dahal, Cleveland Brown, Max Edwards and Sarah Ayoub. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. New Works on Paper is remarkable for its surreal logic and imagery. Things as familiar as bread and pencils or as strangely menacing as Serena Williams' earring or Keira Knightly's jaw clash with the unrelenting forces of time, desire, and the natural world. The poems are witty and erotic in their wild energy, surprising, edgy and angular in their shifting perspectives, full of startling disjunctions and mirrorings, and always acutely aware of their own craft."Luke Beesley's collection of poems New Works on Paper . maps cityscapes, scraping through Melbourne's inner-city (Northcote) and Sydney's Bondi. His words often take you on surreal paths of flight, shaping into strange and self-referential swirls, leaving you disoriented but transformed." - The Australian New Works on Paper "Luke Beesley's collection of poems New Works on Paper . maps cityscapes, scraping through Melbourne's inner-city (Northcote) and Sydney's Bondi. His words often take you on surreal paths of flight, shaping into strange and self-referential swirls, leaving you disoriented but transformed." - The Australian Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Here, There and Elsewhere, is Vivian Smith's first new collection in five years, and his most personal book. The poems draw on memories of life in Hobart and Sydney, travels in Europe and South America, old friends and respected writers, offering quiet lessons for the present, 'searching for the sense of what is real/ the truth of what I am and what I feel'. There is a sequence on the Ern Malley affair, told from the point of view of the poet, who just wants to be left alone; and two autobiographical essays, on the exhibition of French paintings shipwrecked off the Tasmanian coast in 1952, and on the three houses of Pablo Neruda, both of which are poetic testaments. Here, There and Elsewhere Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways, 'where silent graffiti haunts the/ midday breeze where spring/ rain cuts through the sun and/ a rottweiler sleeps outside the/ doors of the supermarket'. These Australian scenes are set against their various European counterparts, with rhapsodies on the Parisian banlieues during Advent and Lent, to a series of Venetian 'postcards', and list-poems set in Barcelona. The poems describe the suburban landscape in a remarkably clear way, finding grace in those parts of them that are often overlooked or derided. Lachlan Brown was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize and is a recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Limited Cities Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's thirdcollection with Giramondo.Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in theaffinities between poetry and other media visual arts, music, andparticularly in this collection, cinema. The poems in Aqua Spinach blend observation, memory and anecdote, producingsurrealistic imagery as they pivot and twist from image to image. They are infusedwith the atmosphere of surrealist cinema, mimicking the films' focus on dreams,fragments and humour, while also speaking to the author's quotidian Melbournemilieu. Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019 Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's third collection with Giramondo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australias cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the true experiences of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australians living in our nations most densely populated regions?Featuring original works of prose, poetry and non-fiction which centre and celebrate the eclectic vibrancy and linguistic fluidity of a new generation of Australian writers.Povo features a ground-breaking collection of works by emerging and established writers from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. The collection includes experimental writing from the Asylum Seekers Centre, Macquarie Fields High School and Leumeah High School.Acclaimed & Award-Winning contributors include:Phoebe Grainer is a Kuku Djungan, Muluridji, Wakaman, Tagalaka, Kunjen, Warrgamay and Yindinji actor, writer and editor from Far North Queensland. In 2023, Phoebe won the prestigious Australia Council Dreaming Award.Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a Uruguayan-Australian writer from Penrith. Natalia is currently working on her debut novel, Hailstones Fell Without Rain (UQP, 2025).Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian writer. In 2020, Daniel won the New South Wales Premiers Young Journalist of the Year Award. Daniel is currently working on his debut novel as a recipient of the 2021 Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. **Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection****Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize****Shortlisted, Prime Minsters Literary Awards, Poetry 2023**Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australias foremost poets, and this collection displays all of the urgency, energy and linguistic audacity for which Fogarty is known.At the centre of the collection is a series of poems written in India. Deeply empathetic, these poems are remarkable for the connections they draw between the social problems the poet encounters in this country poverty, class division, corruption and those he sees in contemporary Australia, besetting his own people.Other poems tell of encounters between people and between cultures, address historical and cultural issues and political events, and pay tribute to important Indigenous figures. There are intensely felt lyrics of personal experience, and poems which contemplate Fogartys own position as a poet and an activist, speaking with and for his community.Fogartys poems are bold and fierce, at times challenging and confronting, moved by strong rhythms and a remarkable freedom with language. They are an expression of the harvest lingo which gives the collection its title. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell, she says. Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die. She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they dont actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigles novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.'Written in a fragmentary form reminiscent of Renata Adler, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McCunningles deadpan fiction debut, documents an unnamed young protagonists listless existence in an unnamed city. The books droll dispatches from daily life under late capitalism recall the writing of the authors New Zealand contemporaries Hera Lindsay Bird and Eamonn Marra, but Butcher-McCunnigles distinctive voice is her own. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life is a grimly funny rendering of the absurdity of life in the 2020san era in which, with nowhere to turn, the hopeless millennial turns in on herself.' Kelsey Oldham, Books+PublishingPraise for Autobiography of a Marguerite:Workbook for surviving illness, guide to familial dysfunction and an intersection between fact and fictionone of the most innovative New Zealand books published in recent years. Booknotes Books of the YearThe writing goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repairButcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards. takahe magazine Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch. Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Read the full article in the The New York Times. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant whohas lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop whilemaintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When hebecomes infatuated with a young international student who lodges in theirhouse, and puts his life savings behind a scheme to export powdered milk toChina, the dubious balance with which he has held his life together comes apart,and feelings of alienation and humiliation begin to spiral out of control.Dry Milkis a work of fiction that gives a perspective on Antipodean culture unlike anyother, told from the point of view of an immigrant alienated from his new home,both its New Zealand and Chinese communities. Huo's novella is a stark portraitof social isolation, and of the experience of the emigrants that left China inthe period after the Cultural Revolution. Capturing the voice of China's post-1980sliterary generation, the book is written with an obsessive intensity thatechoes Patricia Highsmith, Elias Canetti and the short novels of ElenaFerrante. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Devadatta's Poems complements the sequence 'Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree', published in Beveridge's earlier collection Wolf Notes, which followed the travels of Siddhattha Gotama before he became the Buddha, and portrayed the world from his disciplined and ascetic point of view. These new poems are written from the viewpoint of Devadatta, Siddhattha's jealous and ambitious cousin, who attempted to murder him three times. They are marked by an extraordinary richness of language and detail, and a dedication to sensation, which is in contrast to Siddhattha's purity, and caused at least in part by Devadatta's desire for Yasodahra, his cousin's wife. Devadatta's Poems complements the sequence 'Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree', published in Beveridge's earlier collection Wolf Notes Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "a deep meditation on fractured origins and the process of remaking" Eileen Chong"Brown's postcardssing crisp Guangzhou mornings and hints of dry Australian sunsets"Sam Wagan WatsonA hoarding Chinesegrandmother fills her home with objects, unable to distinguish between thevalue of things. Meanwhile, her Asian-Australian grandson travels to China forthe first time, wary of the revelations that the trip might offer, as he triesto make sense of his own Chinese and Anglo-Australian background. In Guangzhou,Kaiping, Shanghai, and Beijing, amidst the incessant construction andconsumption of twenty-first-century China, a shadowy heritage reveals andwithholds itself, while the suburbs he knows from back home are threaded into thecities he visits, forming an intricately braided Chinese-Australianinheritance. LachlanBrown grew up in Macquarie Fields in South West Sydney. His first collection, Limited Cities (Giramondo, 2012), wascommended for the Mary Gilmore Award. His poems have been shortlisted andhighly commended for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Canberra Poetry Prize,the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the BlakePoetry Prize. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. "a deep meditation on fractured origins and the process of remaking" Eileen Chong Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. GeraldMurnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarmingpoems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush'Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth year,began his writing career as a poet. After many years as a writer of fiction, heonly returned to poetry a few years ago when he moved to Goroke, in the WesternDistricts of Victoria, after the death of his wife. The forty-five poems collectedhere are in a strikingly different mode to his fiction without framing ordigressions, and with very few images, they speak openly to the reader of theauthor's memories, beliefs and experiences. They are for this reason animportant addition to his internationally recognised body of fiction, mostrecently Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction, published byGiramondo.The poems include tributes to his motherand father and to his family, and to places that have played a formative rolein his life, like Gippsland, Bendigo, Warrnambool, the Western Districts, andof course Goroke. Especially moving are his poems dedicated to authors who haveinfluenced him Lesbia Harford and Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, HenryHandel Richardson, Marcel Proust, and with particular force, theeighteenth-century poet John Clare, who gives the collection its title, revered'not only for his writings / but for his losing his reason when / he was forcedfrom the district he had wanted as his for life.'Praise for Gerald Murnane:'A strong case could be made for Murnaneas the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of.' New York Times'No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.' Sydney Morning Herald Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize* *Shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards 2022: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry & Multicultural NSW Award* TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the magnitude of rape culture in the everyday: from justice systems that dehumanise survivors, to exploitative care industries that deny Filipina workers their agency, to nationalist monuments that erase the sexual violence of war.Unsparing in their interrogation of the gendered, racialised labour of care, the poems flow to a radical, liberatory syntax. Physical and online terrain meld into a surreal ecosystem of speakers, creatures, and excavated histories. Brimming with incantatory power, Andradas verses move between breathless candour and seething restraint as they navigate memory and possibility. Piercing the heart of our cultural crisis, these poems are salves, offerings, and warnings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Weinberger's essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction. No field of human knowledge is too remote, no fact too fanciful for his purpose, which is to lay before you the world of these animals and the minds of the humans who imagine them. Weinberger's previous collection An Elemental Thing was named by Village Voice one of the '20 Best Books of the Year' and his book What I Heard About Iraq is regarded as an antiwar classic. An Elemental Thing was named by Village Voice one of the '20 Best Books of the Year' and his book What I Heard About Iraq is regarded as an antiwar classic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesiais a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regularbasis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yetthis was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus made its debut,breaking new ground to become, in the words of another Indonesian poet MikaelJohani, 'a queer pioneer' on 'an extremely heteronormative poetry scene'.Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heart-breaking yet humorous rumination on what it means to bein the minority on multiple levels in terms of sexuality, but also, ethnicityand religion. Drawing on the experiences of fellow members of the queercommunity and especially on the poet's life as an openly gay writer ofBataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes readerswith an alternative gospel, a book of bittersweet and tragicomic good newspieced together from the poet's encounters with ridicule, persecution,loneliness, and also, happiness. 'The poems, though seeminglylight-hearted, provide the reader room to delve deeper into many matters, boththe tragic and comic aspects of humanity: sex, religion, and politics, evenpoetry itself. His greatest strength, however, lies in his sly humour his abilityto write poems without putting on poetic airs.' EkaKurniawan'His is a new and magical voiceemerging in literature, yet one almost preternaturally wise, profoundlycelebratory of the history and possibility of poetry.' Christos Tsiolkas To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yet this was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. **Winner, Victorian Premiers Literary Award 2023, Fiction****Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2023****Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023****Shortlisted, ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year****Shortlisted, 2023 BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year****Shortlisted, Prime Minsters Literary Awards, Fiction 2023**The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafes and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mothers family in Hong Kong, and the daughters own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' Helen Garner'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.' Edouard Louis'The quiet intimacy of Jessica Aus novella is beautifully affecting, the unnamed narrators precise travelogue triggering reflections on home, childhood and relationships.It is melancholic and wistful, but Au finds grace and succour in the small act of observing people, places and art.' The Guardian'Aus prose is elegant and measured. In descriptions of bracing clarity she evokes shaking delicate impressions of worlds within worlds that are symbolic of the parts of ourselves we keep hidden and those we choose to lay bare. Put simply, this novel is an intricate and multi-layered work of art a complex and profound meditation on identity, familial bonds and our inability to fully understand ourselves, those we love and the world around us.' Jacqui Davies, Books+Publishing'Cold Enough for Snow is a sensory contemplation of knowledge, performativity, and the integral role of the present in shaping ones past. This book will resonate with solitary bonsai, daughters of mothers, and humans floating backwards through the stories of their lives.' ArtsHub Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Many poems in this collection explore the intrusions of 'the wild' into daily life,through memories, in illness, and in places that you've lost or left behind. Dougan isinterested in the ways in which the past re-enters the present, particularly through thesecrets of family life, in all kinds of atavism, and in pockets of wildness in the suburbsand the city which are a source of liveliness and a dark sort of energy. Her poemsfeature old houses, ruins, revisited places; they focus on the bonds between thegenerations, between children and adults, humans and animals, and humans and thephysical world. The title of the collection refers broadly to these ties, which impose asense of guardianship on those who are bound by them. In contrast to the wildnessthey recognise, the poems themselves seek to tread lightly they aspire to quietnessand reticence, to cumulative rather than immediate effects, and to sustaining arelatively natural and unobtrusive voice. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaires concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony so as to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom: corporate rapacity, climate change, disaster capitalism, the plague, neo-colonialism, fake news, fascism, and how to raise kids in a world fast becoming obsolete. The backdrop of this collection of poems is sparkling Sydney and its screens, through which the poet mainlines global angst. Fitchs spleen poems, with their radical use of form and tone, are as much an aesthetic experience as a literary one translation becomes homage becomes satire becomes song; essays become lyrics become rants become dreams. What is a poem when no one believes in the future now anyway? Nor is the collection lacking in humour. Sydney Spleen mocks everything in its crystal glass, yet still finds real moments of connection to celebrate.'Fitchs poems are not interested in slowly unfolding a metaphor or arriving at a singular meaning. Instead, they ask you to cling on for your life.' Sarah Holland-Batt Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This selection collects some of the most influential and moving work of the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, who spent nearly a decade at the beginning of the century working in the newly created factories and warehouses in what has become one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world, southern China. Her poetry is full of the dramatic details of days and nights spent in physical labor, the din of the workshops, the acute dangers associated with working with heavy machinery, and the exploitation, abuse, and indignity workers are subject to given the pressures of global capitalism and a lack of oversight and protection. But the poems also speak of pleasure and of love, memories of the ancestors, the natural environment of southern China and her native Huangma Mountains in central Sichuan. Zheng writes moving portraits of her fellow workers, voices the rarely addressed issues facing women workers in particular, and paints a vivid picture of the vast population of migrant labourers, displaced from their homes and desperately seeking ways to express their experiences. She is a poet of this century, speaking to a community which consumes the products of this labour: from iPhones to Christmas decorations to the components of machinery used across the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. **Winner, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, Mary and Peter Briggs Award for Poetry****Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024****Winner, Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2024, Poetry**When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her wayward husband, armed with a vacuum cleaner to suck all the bad thing out. Her four children are a brood of monolingual aliens. Eldest daughter Cherry struggles with her mothers unhappiness and the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings, especially the rage-prone, meat-cleaver-wielding Baby Joseph.Chinese Fish is a family saga that spans the 1960s through to the 1980s. Narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, it offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a yellow peril menace and an exotic model minority.'a major poetic work of feminist, so-called minority writing, its originality and brilliance more than earning its space alongside such works as Kathleen Fallons Working Hot, Gloria Anzalduas Borderlands, and Alison Whittakerss BlakWork.' Marion May Campbell'As visually provocative as it is poetic, Chinese Fish portrays the fractured, multilayered, imperiled body of the immigrant story in a stunning work of genre-bending prose poetry. Yee has given the Chin family a literary resting place as complex and as searing as the New Zealand in which they survived.' Juli Min'an unflinchingly honest look at life behind closed doors, where resentment simmers, generations clash, and individual dreams are set aside for the interests of family.' Chris Tse, New Zealand Poet Laureate'Theres a wry humour to the book, sometimes shocking, but often subtle. The narrative is epic, fragmentary and suggestive.' Andy Jackson, Meanjin Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Maria Takolander's poetry presents the primitive aspects of human life in dramatic and uncompromising ways. She strips the world of easy sentiment, highlighting the visceral quality of experience, its nightmare hauntings, and its premonitions of disaster. The intensity of the poems, and their focus on the effects of violence, madness, degeneracy, despair, and birth, combine with a Gothic sense of beauty, and at times, a deadpan wit. The collection is divided into three parts, personal and domestic scenes, old and new worlds, and poems dealing with the cruelties suffered and inflicted by the human animal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. New collection from award-winning poet John MateerIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joao, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubledby dreams and memories, Joao is also an innocent, and given to moments ofillumination and joy. Mateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatmentof this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrativewhich is new in Australian writing, the worldwide adventures of the poet as anti-hero, one who, despite his disappointments, still believes in the power of literatureto create a sense of belonging, and to invoke 'the deep mandala of meeting andfriendship'. 'JohnMateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is fascinated bycross-cultural historical currents and transformationshis poems frequentlyregister how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint orinflect much that we know.' SydneyReview of Books New collection from award-winning poet John Mateer Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.Laurie Duggan's new collection begins with poems written during his last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others written on a visit to Australia in 2016 and after his return in October 2018. They contribute to two on-going sequences, Allotments, and Blue Hills, which alludes to the long-running domestic radio serial of the same name. These are made up of the brief haiku-like poems that Duggan has made his own: impressions, mysterious conjunctions, oddities and contradictions, the small details that express large forces, as in his observations of the landscape, the weather, domestic and suburban settings. In the final section, Afterimages, Duggan offers descriptions of paintings and comments on artists, and sometimes imaginary constructions of what a particular artist might have done, but the real point is to create poems which stand like art works in their own right. Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms.It is a baroque collection, playing with notions of inward and outward space, constructing its intricate perspectives with a restrained delicacy. The title sequence, 'Hotel Hyperion', is set in the future, in a space hotel where a collector gathers artefacts for a museum recording the history of space settlement. It also recalls Keats' great poem, 'The Fall of Hyperion'. Lisa Gorton's first collection Press Release (also published by Giramondo) won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry; she is the author of Cloudland, a novel for children, and an essayist and reviewer. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…