Always controversial, poet Michael Dransfield's life story has tended to obscure his talent and achievement. Tales of drugs, sexual ambiguity and mythical and ancestral kingdoms have become iconic in ...
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"You come to me
with nothing in your hands.
Mouth empty
but for the quickening of a kiss.
Spine bending
as you fish for the fish.
I take your hips
into the bay of my hands
and woo you with every soft ...
Eleven of Queensland's best writers: John Birmingham, Mary-Rose MacColl, Andrew McGahan, Gerard Lee, Steven Herrick, Jay Verney, Melissa Lucashenko, Martin Duwell, Nigel Krauth, Mark Svendsen and Pau ...
This is Bronwyn Lea's debut collection of daringly executed and finely drawn poems, in language deeply sensuous, intelligent and alive with wit. Lea's poetry has earned her acclaim in the Australian p ...
From the start, Andrew Taylor's poetry has been involved in both the domestic and the wider world of travel - physical, emotional and spiritual. The poems in this new collection, whether set in an Au ...
Tsaloumas (pronounced "Sal-oomas") is a poet of significant international status with several books published in Europe and the U.K. His latest volume The Harbour was announced at the recent Adelaide ...
Published in various literary journals, many of these poems are about relationships between mother an child, nature and society, the self and memory, black and white Australia. Several times poetry a ...
This is a new title in UQPs stylish Collected Poetry Series. John Bray, OA, was a distinguished South Australian poet and former Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. This volume brings together ...
I arrived late one summer evening
from a far parapet of hills
I'd seen the harbour and the ship
and window-panes ablaze
with the setting sun.
I was glad, for it had been
a long, lonely tramp.
I approa ...
With poems by 70 of Australia's finest contemporary poets, this incomparable selection provides a delectable tour of our poetry from 1968 to 1998. Over 160 poems have been selected. They range from wr ...