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Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

$24.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

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 iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alte rnately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future. ...Show more

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Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

$24.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in my grandmothers' constellations. I track my grandmothers' stars to find my bidi home.Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together.This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children — those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light.Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women's voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation's agency to resist, survive and renew. Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in my grandmothers' constellations. I track my grandmothers' stars to find my bidi home.Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together.This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children — those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light.Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women's voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation's agency to resist, survive and renew. ...Show more

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How to Be Held by Maddie Godfrey

$21.95 AUD

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Category: Poetry

To be held is to be embraced. Not only by the bodies or cities around you, but also by yourself. Maddie Godfrey's debut poetry collection is an ode to resilience, vulnerability and tenderness. Using personal experiences the author explores gender politics, body positivity, trauma and self-preservation. How To Be Held aches with an intimate familiarity, like a diary entry which you cannot remember writing but still recognise yourself within. These poems are strong in the softest way. ...Show more

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Redgate by Robert Wood

$14.95 AUD

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Category: Poetry

Redgate is the story of how community slowly accretes out of everyday necessities, always gruelling, sometimes cruel. When the labour is hard, and making can also be an un-making. Wood's poems bear witness to the contiguity of grief and green growing things. The red of knuckles and beets. Hard-won vict ories and soft-spoken celebrations. Wood is so alive to where words begin and where they can lead. A deep ecological and historical awareness, and tenderness for his people/s, his land/s - entities that never loom, instead quicken like heartbeats in the presence of something dear. ...Show more

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And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

$26.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON ...Show more

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Earth Dwellers: New Poems by Kristen Lang

$24.00 AUD

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Category: Poetry

The crags do not notice if I have come from stone or am becoming stone or am merely part of the weather.The Anthropocene – what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth's history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness landscapes, Earth Dwellers challenges our human-centrednes s by embracing perspectives which set the intimate delicacy of life forms against time scales that go back millions of years. These are deep-breath poems, full of touch and awareness, consolidated by their commitment to the ecologies that envelop us. Asked where we come from, the poems speak not of nations or tribes but of mosses, mountains, oceans, birds. And asked where we are going, the poems refer not to rockets or recessions, but to the biome, a place where consumption is a relationship and not a right. This is ecopoetry – where the natural world is primary, and humans have to find their place in it, rather than the other way around.'Lang's affinity for the natural world pulses everywhere…like a drumbeat, and her language rises to meet it.' — Sarah Holland-Batt 'Kristen Lang's poems bring together the celestial and the domestic, the elemental and the everyday. Few Australian poets have fused the mystical and the real with such skill and audacity.' — David McCooey'[Her poems] might very well herald an epistemological shift into a different way of looking at humanity's place within a vast, beyond-human world.' — Daniela Brozek Cordier ...Show more

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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

$24.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th e potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else - home ...Show more

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My People by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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Category: Poetry

Oodgeroo's writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection of poetry and prose and a reminder of Oodgeroo's contribution to indigenous culture and the journey to reconciliation.

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Shine Your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad

$27.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry | Series: You Are Your Own Fairy Tale Ser.

"make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, "you are your own fairy tale." this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it's time to take back your power & realize that you don't need a king in order to be a queen. ...Show more

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A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter

$34.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

Relax and unwind at the end of the day with this calming collection of nature poems--one for each night of the year.   Now more than ever we need something to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through the natura l world and its wonders every evening, just before you go to sleep. All the great time-honored poets are here--William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Bridges--along with some newer and lesser-known voices. The verses reflect and celebrate the changing seasons: read Emily Bront on bluebells in spring and Edward Thomas's evocative "Adlestrop" in summer, and then experience golden autumn with Hartley Coleridge and visit John Clare's "Copse in Winter." Stunningly illustrated with seasonal scenes, this wonderful anthology will delight you for years to come. ...Show more

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Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

$27.99 AUD

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Category: Poetry

"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t he translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world— there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. ...Show more

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Bloodlines by Fable Goldsmith

$20.00 AUD

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Category: Poetry

To watch Fable Goldsmith perform their poetry is to witness something miraculous conjure, break and heal before your eyes. Goldsmith's performative style is vibrant, revelatory and beguiling: their voice shatters around words, summons resilience, ensnares the audience with a ferocious tenderness. This i s a poetics of queerness, parenthood, family and bravery unlike anything you've ever heard.And now? now you can read it, here, in this incredible chapbook. Trust me, nothing is lost in Goldsmith's words being transmuted on to the page. In fact, there is an extra space, there, yes, right there, in your chest: a space for your heart to break and shift and leap and heal. Yes, let yourself heal, here in the pages of Goldsmith's poems.In fact, let the alchemy of Fable's poetics transmute your heart, your healing, into something more precious: something akin to gold. Now, carry that preciousness as armour. See how your feet lift to greet the world with awe and courage, how your tongue learns to shape the names of unconditional love. This is how Fable carries their poems into the world, on to the stage, and here? on to these pages.Hyperbole aside, it has been an honour to mentor Goldsmith over the past two years. Their passion and dedication toward poetry is beyond admirable. To see them succeed has been a blessing. In the time we have known each other, Goldsmith has represented WA twice at the Australian Poetry Slam, won The XYZ Award for Innovation in Spoken Word, has been shortlisted for The Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and is now the author of this wondrous chapbook. As a mentor, all of this success fills my heart with pride. As a friend, I am inspired. Endlessly inspired. Fable Goldsmith's poetry is visceral, vital and important. They capture the heartache and triumph of family with such bravery, it will leave you enamoured and empowered. To put it simply, Goldsmith is one of the most important and engaging emerging poets in West Australia, if not the whole of Australia.Treasure these poems, for they each contain inexplicable treasure. -- Scott-Patrick Mitchell ...Show more

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