New Australian Fiction 2021: A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
A son becomes enthralled in his father’s quest for treasure. A young woman is blamed for an unfathomable act. Teenagers break into an airfield. Strangers meet in the night. The world is thrown into chaos when people spontaneously combust.New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct ex ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a te ...Show more
Guwayu, for all times: A Collection of First Nations poems by Leane Jeanine (Ed)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Guwayu, for all times is the highly anticipated and electric collection of First Nations poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry. This collection extends the ancient and continuing cultural practice of weaving to words. In Guwayu, for all times, the page becomes the vessel — the crafted object that carri ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: very good
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Per ...Show more
On the Line: Notes from a Factory by Joseph Ponthus
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: near fine
Factory you shall never have my soul I am here And I count for so much more than you And I count so much more because of you Thanks to you Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Britta ...Show more
Whisper Songs by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the person ...Show more
Upstream - Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, be ...Show more
Empty Out the Negative - Make Room for More Joy, Greater Confidence, and New Levels of Influence by Joel Osteen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Release the negative thoughts and feelings that are weighing you down and make room for the good things you should have in your life with #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen.You were created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, and creativity. But it's easy to go through life holding o ...Show more
John Cooper Clarke - I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$44.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: very good
John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator, reluctant national treasure. At 5 feet 11 inches (116lb, 32in chest, 27in waist), in trademark suit jacket, skin-tight drainpipes and dark glasses, with jet-black ...Show more