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This is no easy ride – and Fogarty takes no prisoners.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMOGWIE-IDAN: Stories of the land\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the intelligence of the Aboriginal grassroots struggle in contemporary Australia, laying open the realness of Lionel Fogarty’s Murri mission poetry. The Aboriginal struggle in Australia is not over, but here handed to the next generations to promote their strength. Biame guide! Biame bless!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A most prolific Aboriginal poet, Lionel Fogarty continues to write with powerful passion about issues close to his heart: injustice, land rights, identity, language, black deaths in custody and the ongoing consequences of colonization. Lionel’s writing focuses on his need to face a future without oppression and he demonstrates a desire to pass on his own knowledge and experience through the written word.’    Anita Heiss\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Fogarty’s book of poetry stood out to the judges for the sheer power of the poetry from first to last page. This is the poetry of a mature, confident poet, rich and inventive with language and viewpoint. It is a wide-ranging literary intervention into Australian history and culture. The poetry ranges, in hybrid style, across trans-historical themes in assertive, provocative, defiant, satirical and brilliant verse that gives readers the sense that they will come back to the poems time and time again, and there will still be more to decipher and understand. There is highly inventive twisting and tangling of words such as in the line : ‘Even bulldogs British the law’ condenses colonisation into one succinct line. The poems are a radical critique of settlement – ‘you’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘white explorers’ and ‘untribal man singing songs’ – but are also addressed, perhaps too hopefully, ‘to all open-minded people’.' Judges' report for the Kate Challis RAKA Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLionel G.Fogarty, \u003cem\u003eMogwie Idan: Stories of the land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-edited by Ali Cobby Eckermann \u0026amp; with an introduction by Ali Alizadeh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image and llustrations by Lionel Fogarty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e160pp. 2012.  ISBN \u003cspan\u003e9781922181640\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ztyu\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":240978447,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/LF_Mogwie-Idan.jpg?v=1348360134"},{"product_id":"ali-cobby-eckermann-love-dreaming-other-poems","title":"Ali Cobby Eckermann, Love dreaming \u0026 other poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove dreaming \u0026amp; other poems \u003c\/em\u003eCobby Eckermann bears witness to a deep commitment to her traditional kin, culture and language as she tells the story of her search for her family on the traditional Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha lands in the north west of South Australia. At the same time, she lays bare the ongoing effects of governmental policy and paternalism on Australia’s indigenous peoples. Engaging with events around Alice Springs, these poems give firsthand witness to the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response by the Federal Government, commonly known as The Intervention, and its ongoing effects on regional and remote Indigenous communities. These poems lay open the complexity of the internal conflict felt among Aboriginal people today, as they constantly need to adjust to contemporary Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCobby Eckermann notes, ‘My times in the desert are my happiest, and the soft blanket felt when my traditional language is spoken around me, is a feeling of pure love.’ This is a collection by one of Indigenous Australian poetry’s most vital new voices, sung with two eyes wide open to the present reality without fear or prejudice, with an overflowing love and care for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese are the offerings of a writer who has journeyed with great determination through apparently irretrievable loss, through chaos, disintegration and desolation, who has harvested the gifts of insight and emotional and spiritual intelligence and compassion, and who now reveals these insights to the eyes and ears of others through lucid images and punchy language.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerry Whitebeach\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAli Cobby Eckermann\u003c\/strong\u003e has enjoyed huge success with her first collection of poetry \u003cem\u003elittle bit long time \u003c\/em\u003e(Australian Poetry Centre, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eKami\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2010).  Her poetry reflects her journey to reconnect with her Yankunytjatjara \/ Kokatha family. Her first verse novel \u003cem\u003eHis Father’s Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Her second verse novel \u003cem\u003eRuby Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e won the inaugural \u003cem\u003ekuril dhagun\u003c\/em\u003e National Manuscript Editing Award and will be published by Magabala Books in 2012. She established an Aboriginal Writers Retreat at her home in Koolunga, and advocates strongly for grassroots Aboriginal voices to be heard through literature. She has lived most of her adult life in Australia’s Northern Territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAli Cobby Eckermann, \u003cem\u003eLove dreaming \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e64pp.2012. 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His previous work is largely intermedia. He was a 2008 Asialink Literature Resident in Chengdu, China, and works as a communications manager.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The complex landscapes of today, urban and natural, become worldscapes and dreamscapes in James Stuart’s poems, traversed or experienced but never wholly commandeered by ‘the likes of you \u0026amp; me’. Joy, hope and even tranquillity are edged with apprehensions of destruction and change. In the rich noticing and gorgeous pleasures of these poems, and their tensile, analytical structures, there is always form and void. Layered places, moods and the mesh of thought and feeling are expressed with the uneasy eloquence of this assured poetic talent.” \u003ci\u003eNicholas Jose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Anonymous Folk Songs were composed over more than a decade. As a debut collection it is assured, intelligent, often very funny, and rewards close reading. There is much to appreciate here: different notes will of course be sounded to different ears in the process of reading; and each reading, too, produces its own metamorphoses of meaning.\" \u003cspan id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_38424\"\u003eBella Li in \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/li-stewart\/\"\u003e\u003ci id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_38558\"\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...\u003cspan\u003eabout ways of seeing, but also about the rich complexities of the cross-cultural experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\" Ali Jane Smith in \u003ca href=\"\u0026lt;a%20rel=%22nofollow%22%20shape=%22rect%22%20class=%22%22%20id=%22yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35140%22%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/arts\/review\/poet-james-stuarts-work-enriched-by-crosscultural-encounter\/news-story\/b9e5d60b64574a5573f63dc2f119ca75?=%22\u0026gt;http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/arts\/review\/poet-james-stuarts-work-enriched-by-crosscultural-encounter\/news-story\/b9e5d60b64574a5573f63dc2f119ca75?=\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;%C2%A0%C2%A0\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35138\"\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What is most striking about Stuart’s poetry is the reverence for individual memory as a human need, as something to possess as the ‘ghost gum disappears into its sapling.’\" Kylie Law in \u003ca href=\"\u0026lt;a%20rel=%22nofollow%22%20shape=%22rect%22%20class=%22%22%20id=%22yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35146%22%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http:\/\/rochfordstreetreview.com\/category\/books\/anonymous-folk-songs%22\u0026gt;http:\/\/rochfordstreetreview.com\/category\/books\/anonymous-folk-songs\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\/%C2%A0\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35144\"\u003eRochford Street Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Throughout the vast journeys from rural to city, from the grounded and intimate to the conceptual, Stuart finds his strength in a simpler voice and theme that becomes enriched by his powerful use of imagery and the unexpected intensity of his endings.\" Kyra Bandte, \u003ca href=\"\u0026lt;a%20rel=%22nofollow%22%20shape=%22rect%22%20class=%22%22%20id=%22yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35152%22%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http:\/\/www.nswwc.org.au\/2014\/10\/poetry-book-review-anonymous-folk-songs-by-james-stuart%22\u0026gt;http:\/\/www.nswwc.org.au\/2014\/10\/poetry-book-review-anonymous-folk-songs-by-james-stuart\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\/\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35150\"\u003eNSW Writers’ Centre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"...the tangible and sensory mesh with the prophetic and dreamlike to create an assortment of delectable double-exposures and incongruities.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJacqui Wise in \u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35156\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\u0026lt;a%20rel=%22nofollow%22%20shape=%22rect%22%20class=%22%22%20id=%22yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35158%22%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http:\/\/newsroom.uts.edu.au\/news\/2014\/04\/anonymous-folk-songs%22\u0026gt;http:\/\/newsroom.uts.edu.au\/news\/2014\/04\/anonymous-folk-songs\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;%C2%A0\"\u003eUTS U: Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Stuart’s first full collection, \u003cem\u003eAnonymous Folk Songs\u003c\/em\u003e, is not a book to be read in a hurry … This is highly self-aware, literary poetry with clear antecedents, one of which is French symbolism. As the narrator says in the book’s final entry, 'English is a game \u0026amp; I’m not sure I understand myself.' You have been warned.\" Geoff Page in \u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35168\"\u003eT\u003ci class=\"\" id=\"yiv7332338883yui_3_16_0_1_1452748730674_35162\"\u003ehe Canberra Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/qxxp\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":365612557,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Vagabond_Press_-_James_Stuart_cover_final.jpg?v=1379899004"},{"product_id":"louis-armand-indirect-objects","title":"Louis Armand, Indirect Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndirect Objects\u003c\/em\u003e is Prague-based Australian author Louis Armand’s eighth collection, an exploration of physical, psychological and linguistic topographies forming a poetic grammar. The indirect objects of the title are emergent states of experience, perception as language, the unarticulated “real” we encounter as strange and remote in even the most familiar forms of saying. The volume is divided into five sections – “Realism,” “Dark Mingus,” “Broadcast Graffiti,” “Zapata Retrospect,” and “Tür zum Nichts” – each concerned with an exploration of landscapes of fact. Armand’s poetry is populated by places, people, things whose existence describes a potential contained in language as singular and vital as they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Armand's extreme gesture of deteritorialisation moves beyond the radical dislocations performed on their respective languages by both Kafka and Tsvetaeva.\" Vadim Erent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Armand is the international conduit for much of the dialogue that’s developing today. he is an internationalist, an innovator … he’s genre busting \u0026amp; on an “open” passport.\" John Kinsella\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The language of ‘internally fissured realities’ is dense, sound-driven, and erudite. The territory being mined is somewhere between language and geography, but there is a stubborn (and tenaciously coherent) essay on the modern here, particularly modern art. The equally tenacious reader will be rewarded by a sober sensibility.\" Andrei Codrescu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis Armand is a Sydney-born writer who has lived in Prague since 1994. He is the author of six novels, including \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), described by 3AM magazine’s Richard Marshall as “a perfect modern noir,” and Cairo (2014; both from Equus, London). His most recent collections of poetry are\u003cem\u003e Indirect Objects\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond, 2014) and \u003cem\u003eSynopticon\u003c\/em\u003e (with John Kinsella; LPB, 2012). His work has been included in the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and Best Australian Poems. His screenplay, \u003cem\u003eClair Obscur\u003c\/em\u003e, received honourable mention at the 2009 Alpe Adria Trieste International Film Festival. Currently he directs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University where he also edits the international arts magazine VLAK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image: Louis Armand, “Saved” (2010), oil and mixed media on canvas, 130 x 140cm, panel 1 of a diptych. 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Join the narrator, \"Edwards\", and his “crack team” of fragmentary misfits as they explore alleged hauntings at an unnamed lighthouse, play hide and seek with the mysteries of commerce and engage in a deadly serious game of “double you or nothing” with a neural network. Each scene of the poem takes place across a double-page spread, with centrally located orchestra pit. By the author of \u003cem\u003ePeople of Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Fluke: a mistranslation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Un Coup de dés…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“However much Edwards avoids the traditional role of the poet, he doesn’t really do away with being referential, with a sense of the real world. 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One side often plays the support role, an ‘accompaniment’ for the other side. Elsewhere they merge, intersect, cross, or even obliterate each other. Book 1 is the first test of this structure, a laying out of fields, of poetic ‘areas.’ \u003cem\u003eAXIS \u003c\/em\u003ebegins with questions like these: Can utopia be lived inside the work? Is there a place for the political in the poem? What is the fate of community, of the chorus, of lyric time? Could there be such a thing as poetic geography? Poetic science? What doesn’t poetry know about music? The \u003cem\u003eAXIS \u003c\/em\u003esystem is designed to work in the future with three,- and four-columns of text, bringing together discourses of science, pharmacology and contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eBig, bold, brainy. An experimental \u003cem\u003etour de force.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e– Kate Lilley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"W\u003c\/span\u003eith\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis\u003c\/em\u003e, a.j. carruthers explicitly aligns himself with the lineage of the long poem. It is a bold move, if we consider that the major exponents of the form, from Ezra Pound to Anne Waldman, had invariably produced significant bodies of work prior to embarking on their poetic marathons. But ambition is fundamental to the long poem, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis\u003c\/em\u003e, comprising thirty-one extended sequences and billed as ‘Book the first’, certainly outstrips Pound’s inaugural efforts – a mere sixteen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eissued in 1925 – by a country mile . . . \u003cem\u003eAXIS \u003c\/em\u003eproves as much a delight for the eye as for the ear.\" – \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If he is also engaged in deranging formal play, Carruthers evinces a different kind of aesthetico-ontological program. An axis is — as the great Chinese Taoists liked to say — the void about which the wheel turns. This ‘wheel’ is as cosmic as it is quotidian . . . one further suspects a literally cosmic ambition for his work, which attempts to establish the very axle of existence as the power of absence. Hence, in a post-Mallarméan fashion, many of the numbered (and sometimes unnumbered) ‘Axis’ poems here are split across a central hinge of the page itself, not to mention the crease between pages, or between words or letters or lines. A ‘turn’ in poetry can designate a strophe, a turn of a line, a trope or figure, a narrative, a character’s fortunes, a shift of tone, and so on — so \u003cem\u003eAxis\u003c\/em\u003e takes its task to assemble and expose in all such turns their conditions of possibility, their axes, annexes, appendices, adaptations, antitheses and anaesthesias, their abecedarian and auratic apertures.\" – Justin Clemens, \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Playfully provocative, urgently provisional,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis, Book 1: ‘Areal’ \u003c\/em\u003ebegins an ambitious mapping of poetry as imagined area and airing of the real, as space for epic renewal rather than that which is simply anew. As an extended chorale, it splices traces of past voices — poets, musicians, the dictionary, blackbox recordings — with a more intimate contemporary ‘we,’ replete with asides, suspicions, splutters, and mis-soundings. Carruthers meditates on what it means to be in common, what language and its rhythms can carry or elide across time, friendships, and cultures. Attention is drawn to both the scale and pace of experience, moving between ordinary routine and a more global witness or exchange, between the drawn moment to a series of quick, quirky riffs. Crossing the poetic, dramatic, critical and dialogic, this volume fine-tunes our sense of the modal while always returning to the materiality of word and sound. Delightfully challenging, citationally swift, notationally profound,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis, in all respects, a virtuosic debut.\"– Ann Vickery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For the poet-critic — never mere hybrid or moonlighter — the task of writing is always a symphonics. Notation, citation, edge note, floating index, list, query and lexicon contribute to the complex labour of occasioning the poem and its critical orbit, the essay and its poetic afterimage, the score and its rippling extension. Carruthers engages a scholarship at once promiscuous and keenly focused: his is an inquiry attuned to tuning and to the intersections of grapheme, phoneme, line and break that constitute a poem, a conversation, a position statement, a speculation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis, Book 1: ‘Areal’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first of a projected long poem and scores the material of Carruthers’ significant engagement with poetics, philosophy, politics and community. Its gesture is one of boundless generosity — to those who track alongside, called in, or remembered.\"– Astrid Lorange\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A. J. Carruthers’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAxis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epromises to be a long poem, perhaps a very long poem. This “projected life-long” work belongs to the tradition of the “life-poem” which has emerged in late twentieth-century American (and, with Carruthers, Australian) avant-garde writing . . . I can only urge those interested in the future of truly innovative poetry to look to Australia for new takes on the traditions, and, as innovative poetry has always offered, on the idea of tradition itself.\" – Calum Gardner, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/glasgowreviewofbooks.com\/2015\/09\/01\/axiom-aperture-adapt-a-j-carruthers-axis-book-1-areal\/\"\u003eGlasgow Review of Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ea.j. carruthers is an Australian-born experimental poet and critic. He teaches at \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eSUIBE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\na.j.carruthers, \u003cem\u003eAxis Book 1: ‘Areal’\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2014. 204pp. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-32-9\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/lgix\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":930475925,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Carruthers_Axis_Cover_Front.jpg?v=1410064068"},{"product_id":"jessica-l-wilkinson-suite-for-percy-grainger","title":"Jessica L. 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Wilkinson is the patient recorder of the rhythms and riffs of Percy Grainger’s life and the brilliant medium hosting his artistic vision. In its wild, spooling energies, this book is an anatomy of creativity and life writing, celebrating point and counterpoint of the poetics of music and music’s poetry.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Felicity Plunkett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica L. Wilkinson\u003cspan\u003e’s first book of poetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003emarionette: a biography of miss marion davies\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan\u003ewas published by Vagabond Press \u003c\/span\u003ein 2012 and shortlisted for the 2014 Kenneth Slessor Prize. She is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eRABBIT: a journal for nonfiction poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2014, Jessica won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and was the recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Nicholas Walton-Healey, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica L. Wilkinson, Suite for Percy Grainger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e136pp. 2014. 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Fogarty combatively stakes his voice somewhere between Aboriginal English and Standard Australian English as he confronts the social and political realities of contemporary dispossession, racism and victimisation and the painfully recalcitrant attempts by the non-Indigenous Australian hegemony to address Indigenous injustice and disadvantage.\" —\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/phillip-hall-reviews-george-dyungayans-bulu-line-a-west-kimberley-song-cycle-by-stuart-cooke-and-eelahroo-long-ago-nyah-looking-mobo-mobo-future-by-lionel-fogarty\/\"\u003ePlumwood Mountain Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes angry, defiant, sometimes sad, and always in love with people and country, Lionel Fogarty is cosmically off the scales, holds multitudes, is wise, riddling, and funny too. Like all romantics the word is energy, wilderness and invention, but the modern is where he’s going. If these poems were dice, they’re all loaded. There’s no voice comes close to this intensity. And if you want something predictable and ‘correct’ (in terms of language and rhetoric) go elsewhere. ‘Here comes the tranquility incarnation.’”\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eAdam Aitken\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Once again Lionel Fogarty presents a collection of poems unique in the telling. From bar room brawls to constitutional referendums, past loves and hopes for the future, these new poems obliterate the landscape, holding the reader in a place of Aboriginal contemplation.”\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eAli Cobby Eckermann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLionel G. Fogarty is a Yugambeh man, and was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s, he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths in custody. In 1993, his younger brother, Daniel Yock, died while in police custody. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including most recently the award-winning \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/lionel-fogarty-connection-requital\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnection Requital \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/australia\/products\/lionel-fogarty-mogwie-idan-stories-of-the-land\"\u003eMogwie-Idan: Stories of the land\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLionel G. 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Canning is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Indigenous Australian activism. The poems collected here offer an unflinching examination of the lasting damage done to Indigenous Australia by European colonization and the continuing political struggle. As unflinching and uncompromising these poems are in their protest and dissent, love for country, community and tradition remains central. These poems give witness and insight to the reality of contemporary Aboriginal Australia and demand to be heard. There is wisdom here, hard-won, lived and told true.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In writing I try to cover a diverse range of topics while writing about issues that I have experienced. As an Aboriginal man in my 60’s, I have seen a lot of political deception I have suffered imprisonment and having all dignity stripped away. I have seen our Peoples lost forever in institutions and finally because of this, in later years I was diagnosed with a schzio-efective disorder. I have survived this and live a normal life. Some of my poems reflect my feelings of political treachery, oppression and the mental state this leaves. Yet in the text their remains a love of our Culture and Our Mother Earth. A gentleness survives and overcomes the bitterness. It is important to note that while I am writing about my experiences, I am writing about the First Nations Peoples of this country’s survival against some horrific experiences. In address mental health issues, I was fortunate to be able to write some of these poems while I was ill. I want ALL peoples to know such an illness is not the end and please do not let it define you. I have learned via my wife Cheryl, love overcomes all adversity.” \u003cspan\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003eBurraga Gutya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKen Canning\u003c\/strong\u003e is from the Kunja Clan of the Bidjara Peoples of South West Queensland. His language name is Burraga Gutya. Poet and playwright, he started writing over 40 years ago from a prison cell in the old Boggo Road Jail in Brisbane, learning how to read and write from a fellow inmate. He worked for many years in Aboriginal Education, \u003c\/span\u003eand was a founder and former Academic and Cultural advisor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Cheryl Bucaneg Quejada-Canning, \u003ci\u003eTagaraw. \u003c\/i\u003e16x20 inches. Oil on canvas, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease date March 31, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e98pp. 2015. 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It is an amusing calibration of self-consciousness, speculation, stereotypes \u0026amp; detail, reflection and discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"rather brilliant\" \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/lowe-bolton\/\"\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThoughtful—and yet forgetful, easily distracted, hardly there sometimes—Ken Bolton’s is a lyrical figure limned against the harsh outlines, the stark colours, of the Adelaide art world, adding a word here, a thought there, in the general flux of words and deeds around town, and something of a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary scene, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1957 Jaguar D-type, El Cid. 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In part, they epitomize the absurdities of contemporary materialism. Pam Brown's well-practised scepticism dismantles monumental intent and splices the remains into a shrewd melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric complemented by playfulness. For Pam writing poetry is a habit, a disorganised ritual. Her poetic inventories begin in everyday bricolage. Real things interrupt the poems the same way thoughts and phrases do. You know - the fridge over there, the bus stop, surf music on a radio, a raisin squashed against a floor tile - always backgrounding a connection to the 'social' as the poems make political and personal associative links. Though disquiet is present it is usually temporary - an optimistic wit plays through this idiosyncratic poetry as a kind of placebo. But, in the end, Pam Brown simply lets the language do the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Missing up\u003c\/em\u003e distinctly interprets traces of the city, the title of each piece effortlessly incorporated into a notational verse structure. Written over three years, this corpus is urbane, parochial, (“disliking Bondi Junction”, 145) and self-deprecating. Brown’s collection is multifocal, irreverent (“the dolt in residence” 93) and cacophonous...' \u003cspan\u003eAnne Stuart reviews Missing up by Pam Brown in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/anne-stuart-reviews-missing-up-by-pam-brown\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/anne-stuart-reviews-missing-up-by-pam-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlumwood Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'concise and finely crafted...' \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/pree-brown\/\"\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor over four decades \u003cstrong\u003ePam Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e has been active in all kinds of ventures in the multitudinous and continually shifting realm of Australian poetry and in other cultural scenes. Since 1971 she has published many books, chapbooks and an e-book and has been an editor for several magazines\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 2014 she edited ten booklets of new poetry, the deciBels series, for Vagabond Press. She has always held a variety of day jobs but happily avoided a career in any one of them. Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria in 1948. She grew up on military bases in Queensland which possibly 'explains something'. With stints in various local and foreign cities, she has spent most of her adult life living and working in Sydney. She has a blog at thedeletions.blogspot.com and a books site at pambrownbooks.blogspot.com.au\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePam Brown, \u003cem\u003eMissing up\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eDecember 2015. 160pp. ISBN \u003cspan\u003e978-1-922181-50-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: December 1, 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/duld\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":6406316100,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Brown_MissingUp_Cover.jpg?v=1540463773"},{"product_id":"toby-fitch-br-the-bloomin-notions-of-other-beau","title":"Toby Fitch, The Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026 Beau","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud told his friends in Africa that he had “seen Australia”. But what did he mean by “seen”? Visited? Viewed on the horizon? Imagined? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of antipodes—inversions—of the prose poems collected in Rimbaud’s \u003cem\u003eLes Illuminations\u003c\/em\u003e, which Toby Fitch turns upside down, hijacking and re-versing their content. Here you will find collages, redactions, homophonic and metonymic mistranslations, pattern poems, concrete poems and other systematic derangements, some curiously child-like, others warped by the virtual world. Rimbaud’s prose proves fertile ground in which to grow \u003cem\u003eBloomin’ Notions\u003c\/em\u003e—poems that see the land Down Under in an other light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e, Toby Fitch releases hordes of godless hierodules to hack, frack and adirondack multiversal pathways through the parallel universes of Australian poetry. This is the archive as hi-rise, Rimbaud via Ashbery fed through the Shredder of Babel, where the jackhammered lupids of a Concrete aesthetic ruse, saturate, fold and bend in a ‘double sex heartbeat ribcage jangle’. In this uniquely co-dependent autopoiesis, Fitch has produced an anonymous autobiography that is at once prolifically particular and breathtakingly universal.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Fiona Hile\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n“Fitch explores the nether regions of late hominid consumer culture with ready humour, great savvy and Rimbauldian raunch and verve.”\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Chris Edwards\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/rawshock\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Toby_Fitch_-_Tim_Grey-13_medium.jpg?10993439397374589675\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eToby Fitch is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/rawshock\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRawshock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann 2012), which was a co-winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/the-db-series\/products\/toby-fitch-jerilderies\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJerilderies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Vagabond Press 2014), plus two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eQuarrels\u003c\/em\u003e (Stale Objects dePress 2013) and \u003cem\u003eEveryday Static \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Rare Objects 2010). Based in Sydney, he works as a bookseller, a creative writing teacher, as poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, and runs the monthly poetry night at Sappho Books \u003cspan size=\"3\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45333\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eCaf\u003cspan id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45253\" class=\"\"\u003eé\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and Wine Bar. He recently submitted a doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney on alternative play in contemporary Australian poetry. \u003ci id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45017\"\u003eBloomin' Notions \u003c\/i\u003eis his third book of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToby Fitch, \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 80pp. ISBN 978 1 922181 46 6\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: April 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/xipt\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14399140932,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Fitch_BloominNotions_Cover_Front.jpg?v=1454558489"},{"product_id":"bella-li-argosy","title":"Bella Li, Argosy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWINNER of the \u003cstrong\u003eVictorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER of the \u003cstrong\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighly commended in the \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Elder Poetry Award 2017.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommended in \u003c\/span\u003ethe\u003cstrong\u003e Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis innovative full-length collection, drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and originality, as well as the relationship between poetry and other disciplines: the visual arts, history, literature and film. \u003cspan\u003ePolyglot in sensibility and content, and daring in construction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArgosy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003edefies categorisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Grounded firmly in Australian contemporary poetic practice, the book is also outward-looking in its approach to form and content; it constitutes a landmark in both local and international poetics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/kwds\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Bella Li’s \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning hybrid artefact, textually and visually. Through \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e, Li provokes the reader on the value of the object, of \u003cem\u003ethe book\u003c\/em\u003e. This is a collection whose very reality insists on the necessity of print – it dwells within the materiality of form, and is a recognition of poetry as art and art as poetry. \u003cem\u003eArgosy’\u003c\/em\u003es exquisite writing leads the reader through collages, prose poetry and photography, the meanings of which unfold through their juxtapostions – poetic gaps that spur haunting, dreamlike sequences. This is a collection of journeys and intertextual dialogues – between poems and works, and with culture and history.' Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wheelercentre.com\/projects\/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2018\/argosy\"\u003ejudges' report.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The powerful and surprising impact of the book made \u003cem\u003eArgosy \u003c\/em\u003ea clear winner. Bella Li’s sophisticated handling of language, form, time and image offers a remarkable synthesis of European surrealism and an antipodean sensibility, via a Chinese–Australian history. This important contribution to Australian poetic imagination and traditions doubles as a Southern Hemisphere rewriting and re-imaging of world traditions.' NSW Premier's Award (Poetry) \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/argosy-bella-li\"\u003ejudges' report\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Bella Li's \u003c\/span\u003eis a cerebral, yet playful collection broadly presented in two movements. Li interrogates art, history, geography, film, philosophy, and language through the muscular form of the prose poem, juxtaposed with original photography and collage. \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is at once immediate and surreal, and self-reflexively leads us to question our received knowledge of the world, while engaging with and commenting on aesthetic traditions practised by experimental artists such as Joseph Cornell. As an artefact, the book is a singularly beautiful object that pushes the boundaries of what narrative, poetic meaning, and indeed, a collection of poetry might be.' Anne Elder Award 2017 judges' report\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Li is a cartographer of a different kind. Her map-making is as aesthetic as it is topographic, plotting fragmented histories, horizons and the spectral lands of memory and dream.’ Tamryn Bennett, \u003ci\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The poems from Bella Li’s \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e are drawn from an exquisite livre composé (inspired by the famous collage novels of the Surrealist painter Max Ernst), in which dense series of prose poems are set against rectified historical images of an absorbing strangeness. Near-hallucinatory visions are generated from Li’s beautifully-machinated encounters of character and image.' Judges comments for the The Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'...a new wild object, a declaration about how poetry can look and be.' Bella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Elena Gomez in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/sea-shells-and-torsos\"\u003eJacket2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e'...lingering, painstaking, experimental and damn good in a risky and ambitious multimodal form.' \u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Alison Whittaker in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2017\/07\/june-in-poetry\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2017\/07\/june-in-poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOverland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e'For all that \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a work that draws upon many texts, Li occupies distinctively original imaginative spaces within her writing. Familiarity with the specific novels and films to which she refers can work in concert with her writing, but it is equally possible to fall into this work without seeking each and every intertextual link. The gestures through which Li examines the worlds of her characters create a sustained voice and vision.' \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Kate Middleton in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/middleton-li\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/middleton-li\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCordite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There's a wonderful disharmony to these poems: they radiate wonder and doom at the same time.' \u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Ellen Cregan in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.readings.com.au\/review\/argosy-by-bella-li?utm_source=Readings+e-news\u0026amp;utm_campaign=289b1f9bd2-6+Australian+novels+you+should+be+reading\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_term=0_3fa4f126ca-289b1f9bd2-81255777\u0026amp;mc_cid=289b1f9bd2\u0026amp;mc_eid=aec475e071\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.readings.com.au\/review\/argosy-by-bella-li?utm_source=Readings+e-news\u0026amp;utm_campaign=289b1f9bd2-6+Australian+novels+you+should+be+reading\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_term=0_3fa4f126ca-289b1f9bd2-81255777\u0026amp;mc_cid=289b1f9bd2\u0026amp;mc_eid=aec475e071\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eReadings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful coming together of poetry, visual art, history, and cartography, emergent from the journals of La Pérouse, and informed by collage novels of Max Ernst. The work is of such historical scope, yet always turns back onto this sense of ephemerality, of searching for something that is invisible.' \u003cspan\u003eConversation between Bella Li and Mindy Gill on \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/peril.com.au\/topics\/in-the-spirit-of-disappearance-interview-with-bella-li\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/peril.com.au\/topics\/in-the-spirit-of-disappearance-interview-with-bella-li\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeril\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBella Li is the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArgosy\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2017), which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=ab97b744c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2018), shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award; and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2021), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and joint winner of the Australian Book Design Association award for Best Designed Independent Book. Her first work \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaps, Cargo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e appeared as part of the Rare Object Series. Her poetry, artwork, short fiction, essays, and reviews, have been published widely, including in the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Down Swinging\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeril\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRabbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiminal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArchives of American Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Recent work can be found in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanjin \u003c\/i\u003e(Winter 2021), \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave, 2021),\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Writing in Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e(Sternberg, 2021).\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is the associate publisher at Cordite Books and the managing editor at Scribe Publications. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $35.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2017. 180pp. 229mm x 152mm. PB. 57 colour images. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-96-1 (2018, 2nd printing) \u003cbr\u003eRelease date: February 2017. Second Printing available March 20, 2018.","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14399981956,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Argosy_Cover.jpg?v=1540350997"},{"product_id":"stewart-knocks","title":"Emily Stewart, Knocks","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the inaugural Noel Rowe Poetry Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnocks\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut collection from one of the most exacting writers of Australian poetry’s new wave. Stewart’s poetry consistently surprises in its formal range, encompassing sonnets, erasures and found poetry, and striking at the level of the image –“the computer ecstasy of first-person”. The collection conveys the sense of an extended, “stretched” present, politically shadowed, where “it is commendable \/ to sign up each day, but better \/ to maintain a patina of disobedient \/ actions, shoplifting or whatever”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndividual poems consider place, persona, fandom, viruses, data and desire in evoking “a residual gala of feeling”. Yet out of variety emerges a very particular architecture: these are the works of a poet obsessed with the structure of the everyday; its litter and networks, idiom and drama: “today a princess bites off her plait \/ today paper shredders are put to good use”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTender, argumentative, affecting – this is poetry that moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There is more than one kind of poem here, thank the Lord. Poems even differ between modes, get meta on our saggy adulthoods. The generation you didn’t know you were disappointed in not arriving has arrived. In Stewart poetics has a new seat in parliament for wetlands and other erasures. If you have a thing for internet stockings, read this. Not to mention mixed diction Australia, fuck! we don’t just get to live here, we get to write about that shit.” – Michael Farrell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Emily Stewart delivers punchy constructions of contemporary life in the Anthropocene and beyond. She wields her language sharply, imagery exploding with unexpected confluences that sweep routine assumptions aside.” – Jane Gibian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Stewart, \u003cem\u003eKnocks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e78pp. 2016. ISBN 978-1-922181-71-8 \u003cbr\u003eRelease date: July 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/fgcn\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400157124,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181718-Perfect_Stewart_78pp.jpg?v=1465330970"},{"product_id":"kate-lilley-tilt","title":"Kate Lilley, Tilt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2019)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbo’s Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of deracinated subjects. In its detours through the \u003cem\u003ecopia\u003c\/em\u003e of material history, lived experience and the archive of poetic forms, the book itself becomes a teeming repository of the real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Lilley\u003c\/strong\u003e has published two books of poetry, \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt 2002, winner of the Grace Levin Prize) and \u003cem\u003eLadylike \u003c\/em\u003e(UWAP 2012), two Vagabond chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eRound Vienna\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRealia\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the editor of \u003cem\u003eMargaret Cavendish: Blazing World and other writings\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin Classics) and \u003cem\u003eDorothy Hewett: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP). She is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Sydney where she directs the Creative Writing program. Kate is a widely published scholar of queer, feminist textual history and theory from 17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century women’s writing to contemporary poetry and poetics. She is also the poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e. Follow her work at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sydney.academia.edu\/KateLilley\"\u003ehttps:\/\/sydney.academia.edu\/KateLilley\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e is Kate Lilley’s third full-length collection. Both of her previous books were shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize and received multiple citations in the Book of the Year lists in the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\/Age\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Her edition of Dorothy Hewett’s \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Awards and also cited as a Book of the Year in the SMH\/Age. Major invited readings include the University of Chicago, Indiana University, the Holloway Reading at the University of California at Berkeley, the Fannie Hurst Reading at Brandeis University, Cambridge University Poetry Festival, Adelaide Festival Writers Week, Perth Festival and Sydney Writers Festival. She publishes poetry regularly in major national and international journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Australian poetry won't be the same after \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e', Stuart Cooke, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Intelligent, graceful, sceptical, endlessly resonant, Lilley’s poetry gives us a passionately exact language, which opens up the complexities of the inexact; in particular, the complexities of desire and love.' Alison Croggan, \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Unlike her earlier book, the superb \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e uses no traditional verse forms. But Lilley's poems are always concise with wit and meaning, and the same bold, singed humour remains with endless thought clutching each taut line...With its sophisticated observations and gleaming learning and design, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e is a searingly intelligent book that rewards many readings.' Gig Ryan, \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Kate Lilley’s poems...display a refinement of camp definable as the application of precise moral and aesthetic discrimination to and through the products of commercial culture, in a way Augustan in its severity and precision….brilliant.'\u003cbr\u003e John Wilkinson, \u003cem\u003eJacket\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'There's a langorous resourcefulness to these poems - as if their parts could just fall apart, but they don't.' Michael Farrell, \u003cem\u003eJacket2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The poems are exquisite and compelling.' 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His poems appeared in the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Age\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHEAT\u003c\/em\u003e, Cordite, Peril, Black Inc Publishing anthologies of \u003cem\u003eBest Australian Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e website and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/contemporary-asian-australian-poets\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eContemporary Asian-Australian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e anthology\u003c\/a\u003e [Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann, 2013]. With Vagabond Press he has published \u003cem\u003eYears, Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e - a chapbook in the Rare Objects series and edited the fourth volume in the Asia Pacific Poetry series. \u003cstrong\u003eNguyễn Tiên Hoàng\u003c\/strong\u003e under the pen name \u003cstrong\u003eThường Quán\u003c\/strong\u003e over thirty has published a wide range of essays, poems and short stories on major Vietnamese literary journals inside and outside Vietnam including Van, Van Hoc, Hop Luu, tienve, damau; a collection of poems \u003cem\u003eNgoai Giac Ngu\u003c\/em\u003e (Beyond Sleeps) by Van Nghe Publishing, California; and \u003cem\u003eWatermarks\u003c\/em\u003e on talawas. He was poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eHop Luu\u003c\/em\u003e (Confluence) and is currently on the editorial panel of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/damau.org\"\u003edamau.org\u003c\/a\u003e. Born in 1956 in Danang, Vietnam. Arrived in Australia in 1974 under the Colombo Plan scholarship. Worked as broadcaster for Radio Australia and an Information Technology business system analyst in Telstra and IBM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNguyễn Tiên Hoàng, \u003cem\u003eCaptive and Temporal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. 112pp. ISBN978-1-922181-41-1 \u003cbr\u003eRelease date: August 15, 2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/fmzk\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400415876,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181411_Nguyen_FC.jpg?v=1494829938"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-ghostspeaking","title":"Peter Boyle, Ghostspeaking","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2017 NSW Premier's Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the \u003cspan\u003eJohn Bray Poetry Award in the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShort-listed for the ALS Gold Medal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleven fictive poets from Latin America, France and Québec. Their poems, interviews, biographies and letters weave images of diverse lives and poetics. In the tradition of Fernando Pessoa, Boyle presents an array of at times humorous, at times tormented heteronymous poets. In their varied voices and styles, writing as they do across the span of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century and into the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e , these haunted and haunting figures offer one of poetry’s oldest gifts – to sing beauty in the face of death. In all this Boyle, their fictive translator, is deeply enmeshed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The range of this book is panoramic and the language, which is clear and luminous, is weighted towards exploring the light and dark aspects of human mystery. The poems take in many perspectives and reflect the self in its various modalities and moods. This is a work of sustained imagination. This remarkable book — blending the best of poetry, fiction and annotated ‘translation’ — captures the lives of 11 imagined poets (and of the 12th, the poet-translator whose voice threads itself through the whole collection). These voices, and the stories they tell, remain in the mind, haunting the reader much as the ghosts of the title — loss, grief and spectral apparitions — haunt the fictive poets. Captivating the reader with its rendition of pathos and ethos, this work is distinguished by its ambitious scope and imaginative range, its diversity of voice and its outstanding quality of craft.\" \u003cspan\u003eFrom the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/ghostspeaking-peter-boyle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/ghostspeaking-peter-boyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ejudges' comments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as Winner of Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's literary awards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e succeeds in creating memorable poetry that has the added dimension of memorable characters. This is no small accomplishment. It will leave many readers wondering how Boyle was able to create such a diverse cast of personas, such a 'galaxy of approaching worlds.' Much more than literary technique makes the poems in this book so effective. In a footnote, we hear one of the fictive poets argue that experimentation for the sake of experimentation fails to provide 'the stuff that really matters — the horror, the beauty, the delicacy, the silence.' That’s exactly what Boyle brings us in these 'translations' — the stuff that really matters.\" \u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle's \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by John Bradley in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/ghostspeaking\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/ghostspeaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eRain Taxi.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The simplest way to describe this remarkable book would be to say that Peter Boyle has invented eleven, mainly Spanish-speaking, twentieth and twenty-first century poets and made a fictional anthology which is a selection of his English translations of their imagined work. Beyond that it’s rather difficult to describe it accurately. One could look to Boyle’s \u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\" href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e published in 2009, another work of great ambition and sophistication ... \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t entirely an anthology – there is a lot of novelistic activity going on inside it as well: the lives of the eleven imaginary poets are sketched in and their relationships and interactions with the author brought to light in a way that makes you think of an author’s professional journal\/diary with translations appended. And at another level, \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e could be described as an extension of the well-known genre of what might be called 'the text-based uncanny.'\" \u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle's \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Martin Duwell in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.australianpoetryreview.com.au\/2016\/11\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.australianpoetryreview.com.au\/2016\/11\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAustralian Poetry Review.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Boyle’s book is a book of abundance; in every poem, every biography, every vignette the reader senses more identities as yet unemerged. \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e is a kaleidoscope of experience.' \u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle's \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Kate Middleton in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/sydneyreviewofbooks.com\/ghostspeaking-peter-boyle\/\" href=\"http:\/\/sydneyreviewofbooks.com\/ghostspeaking-peter-boyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In reading the book I’d been struck foremost by the formal aspects of the writing, the beauty of the language, and the generosity of imagination behind these creations. I’d been thinking of aesthetic matters. But when I consider the political implications of Boyle’s ventriloquy: yes, he invents Latin American, French, and Québécois poets, but he does so with a depth of knowledge about the literary culture and history that these poets are embedded in. Boyle has published translations of other (real) Latin American, Spanish, and French poets, and is versed in these literary cultures. The poetry is self-aware, too, evaluating what it is doing while it is doing it.' \u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle's \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Prithvi Varatharajan in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/varatharajan-boyle\/\" href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/varatharajan-boyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eCordite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If Peter Boyle’s new and selected, \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e, was a tour de force of the imagination, and a book of stunningly strange and brilliant poetry, this next book, \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e, surpasses it in ambition and virtuosity.' \u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle's \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Kevin Brophy in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.australianbookreview.com.au\/abr-online\/current-issue\/january\/3774-kevin-brophy-reviews-ghostspeaking-by-peter-boyle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australianbookreview.com.au\/abr-online\/current-issue\/january\/3774-kevin-brophy-reviews-ghostspeaking-by-peter-boyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As in his ground-breaking work, \u003cem\u003eApocrypha, \u003c\/em\u003ePeter Boyle plays hauntingly and movingly with character and voice in this brilliant new collection. The often broken, dark-edged lives of his ‘translated’ poets are rendered in language that is both intimate and universal. These poems and prose pieces span cultures and contexts to evoke an intoxicating range of human feeling and experience. Boyle’s poetry confronts the dark, but it is also uplifting in its perfection of craft and for the way it radiates the enormous power that poetry has to uncover deep, surprising knowledge. I can think of no Australian poet more deserving of a central place on the world stage than Peter Boyle. His imaginative sweep is staggering.\" \u003cspan\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003eJudith Beveridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Somewhere between a brief, succulent anthology of the best twentieth century poetry and a rare contemporary novel, \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking \u003c\/em\u003erescues, from a world within this one, eleven poets who never existed. But that can never be said again. These lives and works are so convincing that readers will trawl the web to learn more about them. All of the writers gathered here are wonderful, some quite remarkable: what then does that leave us to say of the man who created them?\"\u003cspan\u003e –\u003c\/span\u003e David Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for multi-award winning Apocrypha:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Peter Boyle is] one of the best and most fascinating of Australian poets ... \u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e, a brilliant work – to my mind one of the pinnacles of recent Australian poetry” – Martin Duwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Boyle\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/towns-in-the-great-desert-new-selected-poems\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. The highly awarded \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2009) marked the beginning of his experimentation with heteronyms and the merging of fiction, poetry and speculation. Boyle is also a prolific translator of poetry with six books of poetry translated from Spanish. After working for more than twenty years as a teacher with TAFE NSW he is now completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focusing on the translation of poetry, the heteronym tradition and their connections. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 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We both spent many years travelling and participating in seminars together to assist in healing our First Nation Australian communities, from the unresolved grief and loss from the impact of colonisation. This book of poems and writings is a reflection of Maggie’s life of hardship and succeeding against all odds. After the seminars of our healing journey, both Maggie and I would sing to close the day of reflections. I am so proud of Maggie achieving her milestone of these writings and no doubt this book, is just the beginning of many more to come. I wish my deadly sister all the very best in the future, as a writer, poet, singer, artist, comedian and most importantly, a proud Indigenous Australian woman...Maggie’s talents are many and her presentations would captivate the world. This book is a true reflection of Australia’s First Nation’s Journey. Wadamoolie, Greetings.”—Dr Gracelyn  Smallwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/kempsey_and_outloud_art_prize_25-2-14_047_medium.JPG?17775103432210486887\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 2px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Walsh\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Bwcolgamon woman from Palm Island. As she has spent a lot of her childhood years in the Dormitory, Walsh is still finding her family connections. Walsh was born in Townsville in 1964. Her mother Anne was in the Dormitory. She was 17 years old. When she was two years old, her mother was sent to work on the mainland. Walsh remained in the Dormitory and was cared for by the young women friends of her mother, women who had been sent to Palm Island, away from their homes and families. When the Dormitory closed in 1975, at eleven years old, Walsh was placed back into the care of her mother. 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Despite this slow descent into the white-grey numbness of quotidian medical routine – standing in stark opposition to the hallucinatory terrors of Artaud and Nerval – the voice of Present maintains its approachability. It is an impressive accomplishment, reaching out to the reader to take them directly into the bright, sometimes shaded worlds of the poems. Present asks for understanding and in its elegance achieves a startling amount of page turning empathy. Rarely have I devoured a book of poetry with such manic appreciation and understanding of the speaker’s quibbles and problems with the world of love and life.' \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of stand-alone poems, certain themes and preoccupations bind the poems of \u003cem\u003ePresent\u003c\/em\u003e together – family, friendship, loss and acceptance, the attempt to gain meaning from the experiences of daily life. The conversational and plain-spoken, if not always reliable, \"I\" of these poems attempts to express that which can’t be conveyed by traditional autobiographical modes of writing through experiments with form as well as voice. Allen uses humour and lucid observation to explore dark subject matter and the persistent question of distance; how in all relationships (including that of narrator and reader) we constantly juggle intimacy and connection with what is unfamiliar and strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Elizabeth Allen is clever with her construction of poetry, using vocabulary and descriptive lists from other specialist fields like fishing, art colour names and therapies, to connect her readers with recognisable hooks and poetry melodies. Look out for the ‘suicide hook’, Derwent pencils and yoga poses.” – The Australian Writer (Review of the award-winning \u003cem\u003eBody Language\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Elizabeth Allen explores dark territory with extraordinary deftness of touch, warmth and humour. Freestanding lyrics of precise and unusual observation find their place within and alongside delicately arranged prose sequences. A book not to miss. Read it as a whole and savor it poem by poem.\" Vivian Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I haven’t laughed so much in a long while. It is as if these poems are the distilled memoir of a wit and a raconteur with heart. Elizabeth Allen’s \u003cem\u003ePresent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a luminous opening of the private world onto the public, through a voice that is at once modest and acerbic, sensitive and surprising. This book is a gift not only for poetry lovers, but for all thoughtful human beings attempting to navigate the contemporary world.\" Jessica L. Wilkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e writes in Sydney and works as a bookseller at Gleebooks. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in many major literary journals as well as in the Best Australian Poems 2012 and 2014. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetful Hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2005), and a full-length collection, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/elizabeth-allen-body-language\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody Language\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2012)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the Anne Elder Award. She is one of the judges of the Noel Rowe Poetry Award and carried out a writing residency at the Arteles Creative Center in Finland during 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Allen, \u003cem\u003ePresent\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2017. 112pp. ISBN 978-1-922181-84-8\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: August 15, 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/huln\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14404031940,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181848_Allen_FC.jpg?v=1494829751"},{"product_id":"sybille-smith-mothertongue","title":"Sybille Smith, Mothertongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom street dogs of Buenos Aires to street cars of Vienna, from Sydney in the1940’s to the puzzles of return journeys and the enigmas of ageing, these precisely observed and finely crafted essays are by turns moving, funny and profound.  More than a memoir, they are an investigation of the act of remembering and the intricate part language plays in retrieving the past:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a sort of continuous band of surface memory, registering daily events and able to deliver a printout at any time. There is a deeper level of archival data, which you can scroll through for a specific piece of information. And there is cutting a hole in the ice and lowering a line into the black water.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces are both entertaining and thought-provoking, and reveal a unique voice among contemporary essayists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSybille Gottwald was born in Vienna and came to Sydney in 1938 with her family. They settled on a small block of land in West Pennant Hills. From Hornsby Girls’ High School she attended the University of Sydney, where she studied German and English Literature. She was subsequently appointed  lecturer in German at the University of Tasmania, where she met her husband, the poet Vivian Smith. She lived in Hobart until she returned in the late 1960s to live in Sydney with her husband  and their three children. Her study, \u003ci\u003eInside Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1985, and a long essay, Art and the Experience of Randomness, was published in the collection \u003ci\u003eOn Being Human\u003c\/i\u003e in 1990. 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Marked by a subtle probing of the metaphysical layerings that underpin human experience, this exploration returns again and again to the concrete details of everyday happenings. Drawing equally on moments of joy and loss, shifting from comic and bawdy bohemianism to introspective sensory envelopment, \u003ci\u003eAwake at the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a dynamic and fragile world. This fragility is an insistent theme, both in terms of human mortality and ecological crisis. These poems travel across a beautiful earth, through mental and spiritual zones bleached by consumer capitalism, and through country ravaged by mining, passing amongst the ghosts of those who have gone before, the spirits of loved ones, and of cultural and literary inheritance. This is a collection of playful, innovative and imaginative poems, driven by a refined and attentive musicality, brimming with possibility and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJudges' report for the Anne Elder Award 2016: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerndt Sellheim’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecombination of poetry and prose is impressive. It deals with pressing issues, impending ecological crisis, the scathing effects of capitalism, our own mortality. But it is also lyrical and masterful. We especially liked ‘The Experience Machine’, which is epic in scope and its all the right bases. It encap- sulates the modern existential malaise without losing its sense of humour. Technically accomplished, especially the line breaks; this is vital poetry. Sellheim is grounded in the art and craft of poetry, he embraces post modernist poetry and runs with it, producing a thought provoking selection.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBerndt Sellheim\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, novelist and occasional academic.He has taught creative writing and poetics at UTS, and lectured in philosophy at Macquarie University, where he completed a doctorate in phenomenology in 2008. His poetry and critical work have been published in periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eMeanjin, Heat, Island, Overland, Best Australian Poems, Plumwood Mountain, Eyeline \u003c\/i\u003eand T\u003ci\u003ehe Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Frame’s Edge \u003c\/i\u003e(Fourth Estate, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBerndt Sellheim, \u003cem\u003eAwake at the wheel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2016. 90 pp. 210 x 180 mm. ISBN 9781922181916  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: August 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/dgry\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20468365252,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181916-Sellheim_front_cover.jpg?v=1466036700"},{"product_id":"adam-aitken-archipelago","title":"Adam Aitken, Archipelago","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Patrick White Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis most personal poetry to date, Adam Aitken’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci class=\"\"\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is entirely preoccupied with the experience of living and marrying in France. Much of it written while resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris, and then in the south during a seriously cold spring, many of the poems deal with art, Romantic and Modernist writing and writers, and concepts of nostalgia, spirituality, revolution and resistance. One key question is what France (and Europe generally) mean to an Australian writer, which leads the poet to consider the ‘French inspired’ work of other Australian writers. At a simpler level, the collection attempts to weigh cosmopolitan culture against that of its fictive alternative: semi-rural France, where the poet asks how we might reconcile isolation with social engagement, conservative values with more outward looking perspectives? Adopting the lens of those who live there, Aitken reflects on the region’s Gallo-Roman history, its myths, its communal virtues and constraints, its weather, and on the threats to its ecology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Aitken thus puts to use a fractured lineation that often interrupts the flow of the poems, creating a staccato,pa ratac tic,  almost imagist effect, which adds to the simultaneity of things, times, places, and literary figures evident inArchipelago. Aptly, the speaker ‘surveyed the process’, perpetually examining the ‘process’ of writing and making,and what this does to both the spaces the poems inhabit and how this in turn informs the identity, or identities, of the speaker.' \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'France is the context of this intense new volume of poetry from the audacious and culturally investigative poet, Adam Aitken. But this is France seen through the eyes of the traveller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the culturally imbued — a post-colonial sensitivity encountering geography and aesthetics in that way Aitken has of considering both the impact of an environment on the self, and the impact of the self on environment. This is a remarkable book in which a form of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003edifférance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e works in each poem and across the whole — the act of creating poems becomes part of the meaning of the world seen around the poet. Acutely sensitive not only to visual art and literary creativity but to the very persons of the creators, there is a subtextual dialogue that goes on throughout, between the poet and other creators. The act of making is often complex and in compromised environments, where a past of war and devastation edge onto a present of hope and creative affirmation.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Aitken\u003c\/strong\u003e is a London-born teacher and writer who migrated to Sydney after spending his early childhood in Thailand and Malaysia. He has published five full length collections of poetry. \u003cem\u003eIn One House\u003c\/em\u003e, nominated in the Australian as one of the best poetry collections for 1996;  \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet in Subtitles\u003c\/em\u003e shortlisted for the John Bray South Australian Literary Festival Award, and runner-up for The Age Book of the Year poetry prize; \u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eEighth Habitation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (Giramondo Publishing) shortlisted for the same award in 2010, and most recently Archipelago, shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Award for 2018. In 2021, Adam Aitken received the Patrick White Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis writing shows a deep interest in contemporary cultural issues, especially issues of Asian-Australian identity and cultural hybridity.  His work has been translated into French, Swedish, German, Polish, Malay and Mandarin, and is published internationally. In 2010-11 he spend time as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, and Poet in Residence at the Keesing Studio in Paris. He co-edited the contemporary Asian Australian Poets anthology (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann) in 2013. His creative non-fiction work includes \u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Letters Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (Vagabond Press 2016). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdam Aitken, \u003cem\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2017. 112pp. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-94-7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: August 15, 2017.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/zkak\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33786706948,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181947-_Aitken__FC.jpg?v=1494829778"},{"product_id":"pam-brown-untitled","title":"Pam Brown, Click here for what we do","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner ALS Gold Medal for Literature 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This collection is a fine example of Pam Brown’s larger project, to write a poetry that maps the edges of thought, or—in her words—to think ‘what cannot \/ be thought’. click here for what we do brings a clarity and precision to language that refracts the everyday into a strangeness with which to examine what we thought we knew. Disjunctions between objects, and the words used to describe them, comingle into a delightful study of the paradox and power of poetry. Like ‘a shimmering mirage of flame’, the extended lengths of these poems, and their short, fragmented lines, suggest that the border between spoken language and poetry is a lot hazier than we might otherwise think. However, Brown’s tremendous skill ensures that, no matter how relaxed, the poems are at once comical, satirical and thoughtful; if the poetry feels ‘as ephemeral \/ as instagram \/ as a whisper \/ as a wink’ is it because Brown knows how to find the most innate structures of poetic expression. Leaving traces of disquiet through extended meditations and wry observation, this is a poetry of movement and stillness, a lived document examining contemporary life in real time, in all its banal glory.' (From the judges' report)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick here for what we do \u003c\/em\u003eis a cluster of four loosely connected poems that are not only sceptical of the status quo's serial mendacities and hype but, in a way, they also attempt a coming to terms with the erosion of the idealistic conditions that once made non-mainstream culture, including poetry, so viable and, even, necessary. For Pam Brown writing poetry is a habit, a disorganised ritual. Her poetic inventories begin in everyday bricolage. Real things interrupt the poems the same way thoughts and phrases do. She dismantles monumental intent and then, by mixing (rather than layering), splices the remains into a melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric. Hers is a friendly intelligence that clues in connections to the 'social' as the poems make political and personal associative links. Spurning any lofty design these poems debug the absurdities of contemporary materialism with surreptitious humour. Though disquiet is present it's usually temporary. Here, thinking about the future can be 'trickgensteinian' and yet Pam \u003cspan\u003eBrown's poems offer a circumspect optimism\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePam Brown's many books of poetry include \u003cem\u003eText Thing\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Authentic Local\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHome by Dark\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/pam-brown-missing-up\"\u003eMissing Up\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (the latter published by Vagabond Press in 2015). She has been writing, collaborating, editing and publishing in diverse modes both locally and internationally for over four decades. Pam Brown's collection \u003cem\u003eDear\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDeliria\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt, 2003) received the annual New South Wales Premier's Award for poetry. She has earned a living in a range of occupations. Her website is located at pambrownbooks.blogspot.com.au . She lives in the perpetually reconstructing city of Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePam Brown, \u003cem\u003eClick here for what we do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2018. 133mm x 203mm. 150pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-34-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: April 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/nqxy\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33786759812,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Brown_ClickHere_Cover.jpg?v=1513921199"},{"product_id":"philip-mead-zanzibar-light","title":"Philip Mead, Zanzibar Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese poems play with the endlessly malleable form of the sonnet, across a spectrum of tone and register, from traditional to terminals. They are in the innovative traditions of contemporary poetry that are willing to explore and remediate any of the conventions of the poetic archive. In the longer form poems shifting states of consciousness are tagged to scraps of language and mysteriously resonant scenes of contemporary life. The emphasis is always on the ephemeral, the intersections of dreamscapes with the barely noticeable strata of everyday life. The sentences are always close to ordinary, but unafraid to follow the runs of association and blockage generated by language itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘This is a book of cross-talking voices coming from the same source. Meditative poems about landscape necessarily collide and upend the tangents of modernity, the ironies of the “civilized.” The sonnets in the book work individually and collectively, and there's an underlying journey in search of equanimity\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e and knowledge but constantly being confronted and re-routed by the insensitivities, opportunisms and commercial brutalities of a corporate and controlling world.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– John Kinsella\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilip Mead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Brisbane in 1953. He was educated in Queensland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and began writing and publishing poetry in the early 1970s. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Australia and internationally, and have been published by University of Queensland Press (\u003ci\u003eThis River is in the South\u003c\/i\u003e, 1984). In the 1990s he edited, with John Tranter, \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and was Poetry Editor of \u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e (1987-1994). He was Lockie Fellow in Creative Writing and Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne and is now Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia. He has also published criticism of Australian poetry and edited the work of several Australian poets. His critical study \u003ci\u003eNetworked Language: History \u0026amp; Culture in Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2010 New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilip Mead, Zanzibar Light.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2018. 148mm x 210mm. 70pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-70-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/wpks\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33786869380,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Mead_cover.jpg?v=1513921157"},{"product_id":"ken-bolton-starting-at-basheers","title":"Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStarting At Basheer’s\u003c\/em\u003e represents in part a determined ‘tightening up’ of the language and sentiment brought to the author’s work. In this book the author responds to growing tensions and growing animosities felt in Australian society: bleakly reductivist withdrawals of sympathy, and of automatic goodwill, are tested, examined and worked around. The poems have unusual virtues in this respect: a kind of ‘realism’ in dealing with ideas, an exciting openness to the social world and the extension of an empathy that seems genuine because hard won. Even the most serious of these poems seems open, too, to playfulness \u0026amp; aesthetic opportunism—jokes, rapid shifts of direction and attention, allusions to popular culture and to literature and the visual arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStarting At Basheer’s\u003c\/em\u003e is continuous with Ken Bolton’s work in its themes and areas of interest—characterized by the poems’ resolve to think through experiences, issues, social, ethical and aesthetic problems, using the lens of the everyday. At the same time the poems refuse to preclude any one register—high, low, or middling, the casual and the seriously proposed, the specialist and the amateur. At all times the ‘Self’, the ‘citizen, is weighed and judged in the light of the imagined Other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThoughtful—and yet forgetful, easily distracted, hardly there sometimes—\u003cstrong\u003eKen Bolton\u003c\/strong\u003e’s is a lyrical figure limned against the harsh outlines, the stark colours, of the Adelaide art world, adding a word here, a thought there, in the general flux of words and deeds around town, and something of a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary scene, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1957 Jaguar D-type, El Cid. \u003cspan\u003eBorn in Sydney in 1949 he is associated with the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide where he ran the Dark Horsey bookshop \u0026amp; edited Little Esther books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKen Bolton, \u003cem\u003eStarting at Basheer's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2018. 148mm x 210mm. 150pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-88-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/xpmy\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40598656452,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Bolton_Basheer_s_Cover.jpg?v=1513921225"},{"product_id":"wilkinson-balanchine","title":"Jessica L.Wilkinson, Music Made Visible: A biography of George Balanchine","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHighly Commended in the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Jessica Wilkinson’s poems about George Balanchine draw on extensive archival research for her unique non-fictional poetic choreography. Melding the ephemerality of dance with an extraordinary biography of a great 20th century artist, Wilkinson’s talent for conveying dynamic movement in a range of styles suffuses this poetic sequence.' Selection committee for the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Prize\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusic Made Visible \u003c\/em\u003eis a poetic biography on the life and works of George Balanchine, one of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century. Jessica L. Wilkinson explores the possibilities and imaginative leaps that poetry can offer to the writing of a life. Her poetic series of Balanchine ‘ballets’ unfold from his early life as a student at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, through his engagement at Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, to his later co-founding and development of the New York City Ballet. Wilkinson’s poems are attuned to the ephemeral qualities of music and movement that were so vital to her subject’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica L. Wilkinson is the author of \u003cem\u003emarionette: a biography of miss marion davies\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eSuite for Percy Grainger: a biography\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), both published by Vagabond Press. She co-edited \u003cem\u003eContemporary Australian Feminist Poetry \u003c\/em\u003e(Hunter Publishers, 2016) and is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eRabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches in the Creative Writing program at RMIT University, Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the growing field of poetic biography, Wilkinson is both a pioneer and innovator. For Wilkinson, who brings to her work the creative and critical sensibilities of both poet and scholar, it is not enough to ask who and what, but also, and often more importantly, how and why. … Arresting, intellectually stimulating, original and compelling, this work rewards multiple readings.” Bella Li\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eJessica L.Wilkinson, \u003cem\u003eMusic Made Visible: A  biography of George Balanchine \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2019. \u003cspan\u003e148mm x 210mm. 192pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-31-4\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/mryf\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241492036,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Wilkinson_Balanchine_cover.jpg?v=1558573898"},{"product_id":"bella-li-lost-lake","title":"Bella Li, Lost Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Lost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush hybrid of prose poetry, collage and photography, forming what is one of the most beautifully produced poetry titles of recent times. Expansive and imaginative, Li challenges the possibilities of the medium; \u003cem\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/em\u003eis an adventure in form, where the book’s design is as poetic as the text it contains. A poetic travelogue of sorts, the book journeys constantly between the poetic and the visual in a narrative that takes on and repurposes the tropes of colonial exploration in order to tell a different, multi-valent story. There are funfairs, hothouses, and green houses. There are lost lakes. Li’s prose poems bely their slick forms; the voice is assured and sophisticated, even though many sentences are charged fragments from her source texts. Hovering underneath text and image alike is a devotion to what has been lost, to its recovery through expansion into the surreal. Positioned at the interstices of the subliminal and the known, the work reveals absences in time and space that soon we long to inhabit.' (From the QLD Prize judges' report)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e, Li's second collection \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination. \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, which exhibits Li’s distinctive use of text and image, consists of eight extended sequences of poetry, collage and photography, drawing on sources ranging from Dante’s \u003cem\u003eInferno \u003c\/em\u003eand Steve Reich’s \u003cem\u003eDifferent Trains\u003c\/em\u003e, to \u003cem\u003eWoman's Day \u003c\/em\u003emagazines and the archives of artist and autodidact Joseph Cornell. Through the eight sequences of \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, geography and music, history and architecture, works of art and literature, encounter each other in striking and unexpected ways, generating new hybrid objects. \u003cem\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/em\u003edisassembles boundaries and challenges expectations of what a work of literature can be—its alchemy blooms in the spaces between eras, genres and forms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBella Li\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArgosy\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2017), which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=ab97b744c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=ab97b744c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2018), shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award; and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2021), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and joint winner of the Australian Book Design Association award for Best Designed Independent Book. 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Her poetry, artwork, short fiction, essays, and reviews, have been published widely, including in the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Down Swinging\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeril\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRabbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiminal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArchives of American Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Recent work can be found in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanjin \u003c\/i\u003e(Winter 2021), \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave, 2021),\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Writing in Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e(Sternberg, 2021).\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is the associate publisher at Cordite Books and the managing editor at Scribe Publications. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $35.00 \u003cbr\u003eApril 2018. 176pp. PB. 140mm x 210mm. 54 colour images.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-18-5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ftjx\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241668932,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Lost_Lake.jpg?v=1521586309"},{"product_id":"fiona-hile-subtraction","title":"Fiona Hile, Subtraction","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2017 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHighly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2019)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its cues from Rimbaud’s call for the reinvention of love, \u003cem\u003eSubtraction\u003c\/em\u003e tours the hologrammatic labyrinths of the English language to ask again: What is love? And what does the other want? From the courtly inventions of the letters of Abelard and Heloise through the ‘mystical jaculations’ of thirteenth century saints, to the philosophy and science wars of the latter-day bugs, these poems set out from the immobilising imperatives of loving encounters to inscribe themselves in the archival becoming-truths of their own ceaseless wanderings. Gorging and resisting, feasting and refusing, \u003cem\u003eSubtraction\u003c\/em\u003e smorgasbords fusional, ablative and illusory accounts of love only to find that literature impedes romantic progress, imprisons hopes, and forestalls invention, so that ‘she who has come to us at last in its pages, loves us no better in real life’. In the process of doing this, it finds new ways of encountering its perilous selves, in the provision of curiously assembled tools with which to measure and to shape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003cem\u003eSubtraction\u003c\/em\u003e is Hile's syntactical sublime in full lyric reboot, ecstatic as science fiction and alien as love.' - Astrid L'Orange\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFiona Hile\u003c\/strong\u003e’s first full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eNovelties\u003c\/em\u003e (Hunter 2013), was awarded the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 2012, she won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize with “Bush Poem With Subtitles” and was awarded second place in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for “The Owl of Lascaux”. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eSubtraction\u003c\/em\u003e, was awarded the 2017 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest for an unpublished manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award\u003c\/strong\u003e, administered by the Department of English at the University of Sydney, is unique. It offers a generous prize of $5000 and publication with Vagabond Press for an unpublished full-length poetry manuscript by an Australian woman. This is the second time the prize has been awarded. Three distinguished Australian women poets, Pam Brown, Gig Ryan and Kate Lilley, selected the shortlist from an astonishingly rich and diverse field of 90 manuscripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\nFiona Hile, \u003cem\u003eSubtraction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003e2018. 148mm x 210mm. 70pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-02-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/iafr\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241729860,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Hile_Cover.jpg?v=1514081238"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-title-enfolded-in-the-wings-of-a-great-darkness","title":"Peter Boyle, Enfolded in the wings of a great darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry in the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\"\u003eShortlisted in the QLD Literary Awards' Judith Wright Calanthe Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards judges noted: \"\u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the wings of a great darkness \u003c\/em\u003eis an extraordinary book-length poem by poet and translator Peter Boyle. The work is a sustained study of life and death, and all that goes on in between. Written during the terminal illness of his partner, Deborah Bird Rose, the book traverses joy and grief in all their shades of dark and light. Boyle explodes the physical and spiritual world around him as he is confronted with the end of life in the one he loves. In this deeply affecting work, he channels the pain and wonder of what it means to live and to be human in a transient world. The form of the long poem is successfully ekes out each word creating a ‘celebratory emptiness’ that throbs with all its possibilities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness \u003c\/em\u003eis a journey of sorts; neither linear nor heroic, but certainly profound. It is a struggle between dark and dark. How to interpret the suffering of another, of the Earth, and of oneself? Whereas other poets have found ways to bear witness to telluric presence through language, Boyle is working at the hinge where psychic and material reality meet'\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sydneyreviewofbooks.com\/review\/boyle-enfolded-wings-great-darkness\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e Sydney Review of Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e'Enfolded in the wings of a great darkness' is an extraordinary book-length poem by poet and translator Peter Boyle. The work is a sustained study of life and death, and all that goes on in between ... Boyle explodes the physical and spiritual world around him as he is confronted with the end of life in the one he loves. In this deeply affecting work, he channels the pain and wonder of what it means to live and to be human in a transient world.'\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e(Winner of 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry - judges' report)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\" class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\"\u003e'Undeniably profound, it knits its strength through frailty. It is aware of the mechanics within chance, how it sends out echoes in all directions' (from the QLD Literary Awards judges' comments)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Boyle explains: \u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the wings of a great darkness\u003c\/em\u003e represents a new departure in my writing. It is a single book-length poem made up of fragments and shorter pieces in varied styles that build towards the last line, which is the book's title. I have aimed at a sparse, open simplicity in this book, a clarity and brevity sufficient to carry the weight of the space I am now in, with my illnesses, my partner's cancer and the acute sense of time's limits. The poems question what it might mean to live and write in the immediate knowledge of death, what response we can find when out of the blue we, or the one we love, are told we have a very limited time, three or five years, to live. At the artistic as well as the personal level, there is also a need for balance in the work, as beauty, tenderness, the presence of the natural world, light as well as dark, insist on their place in the poem. \u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the wings of a great darkness\u003c\/em\u003e represents a new challenge for me as a poet - the quest for an intensity and clarity strong enough to let simple things resonate, creating poems that are spacious and open. More than in any previous work I have sought to unpack everyday expressions, to probe language, to understand our shared endeavour to come to terms with mortality not as any abstract truth but as it confronts us personally once it enters our life. The construction of a book-length poem of philosophic reflection has required the creation of sufficient space around each fragment to enable it to resonate fully. A poem of this length also needed the development of an energy, a larger rhythm, to carry the reader through to the end.’ Peter Boyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\"\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier's Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle's poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Vietnamese and Chinese. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had six books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e(2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature by José Kozer\u003c\/em\u003e due out in April 2018 from University of Alabama Press. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literary Translation. Peter has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focussing on the relationship between the tradition of heteronymous poetry and poetry translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the wings of a great darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2019. 148mm x 210mm. 82pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-04-8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/mtmb\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241817860,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Boyle_cover_front_cover.jpg?v=1550830970"},{"product_id":"lk-holt-birth-plan","title":"LK Holt, Birth Plan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirth Plan\u003c\/em\u003e is LK Holt’s fourth full-length collection is a generous, sharp-edged, technically masterful and expansive collection from one of Australia’s foremost female poets. These poems are transformative, fiercely feminist, unrelenting in their clarity, and display a rare mastery of the musicality of language. Exploring the realities of mothering and loving in the late Anthropocene, Holt’s work is rigorous in its exploration and evocation of psychological truths and half-truths. Fearless and darkly humorous, these are poems that turn on a phoneme and give full life and song to the shimmering uncertainties and hard realities of selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLK Holt lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her previous full-length collections are \u003cem\u003eMan Wolf Man\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003ePatience, Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eKeeps\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). She is a recipient of the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Grace Leven Prize, and has been longlisted for the Literature Society Gold Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLK Holt, \u003cem\u003eBirth Plan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2019. \u003cspan\u003e148mm x 210mm. 98pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-07-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: TBA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/nulv\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4986990886949,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Holt_cover_drafts.jpg?v=1549600246"},{"product_id":"thom-sullivan-carte-blanche","title":"Thom Sullivan, Carte Blanche","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Noel Rowe Poetry Award 2017-8.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Mary Gilmore Award 2020.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThom Sullivan’s debut collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eCarte Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e, traverses the exactitudes of place and time – from a distinctively Australian suburbia, to farming landscapes in South Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges, to Australia’s renowned Great Ocean Road, and the interior terrains of consciousness and perception. The poems are memorable, succinct in their expression, precise in their effect, and notable for their innovative use of syntax and punctuation. \u003cem\u003eCarte Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems that’s finely realised and keenly felt.\n\u003cp\u003e'Sullivan presents a sharp collection of quietly spoken poems dealing with the complexities of human relationships in a vanishing world. The manuscript has considerable formal variety from spoken interior monologues and reflections to a series of imagistic notations. It also demonstrates a thoughtful and exciting use of punctuation and syntax.' (From the NRPA Judges' report)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eCarte Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e is an arresting calling-card, and – for me – it is one of this year’s most exciting poetic débuts.’\u003c\/span\u003e David McCooey in \u003cem\u003eABR\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThom Sullivan\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1982. He grew up on a farm in Wistow\/Bugle Ranges in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and studied Arts and Law at the University of Adelaide, and Social Science at Swinburne University, Melbourne. He had a short collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eAirborne\u003c\/em\u003e, published in \u003cem\u003eNew Poets 14 \u003c\/em\u003e(Wakefield, 2009). Since then he has edited or co-edited seven published books of poetry. His poems have appeared in a range of books and journals, including \u003cem\u003eThe Best Australian Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Black Inc, 2014 \u0026amp; 2015), \u003cem\u003eAustralian Love Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Inkerman \u0026amp; Blunt), \u003cem\u003eCordite\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTransnational Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOtoliths\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTincture\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Independent Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEureka Street \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e(the 2016 South Australian 'States of Poetry' anthology). He lives in Adelaide, where he works in public policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThom Sullivan, \u003cem\u003eCarte Blanche \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2019. 148mm x 210mm. 70pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-03-1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/pnsp\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4987057733669,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Sullivan_cover.jpg?v=1549600449"},{"product_id":"natalie-harkin-archival-poetics","title":"Natalie Harkin, Archival-Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the John Bray Poetry Award in the 2020 SA Festival Awards. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Award in the 2020 NSW Premier's Awards. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHighly commended in the 2020 Victorian Premier's Awards.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elFMjtL79qI\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchival-Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e is an embodied reckoning with the State’s colonial archive and those traumatic, contested and buried episodes of history that inevitably return to haunt; a way of knowing and being in the world that carries us lovingly back and forward and back again toward something else restorative\/ transformed\/ honouring\/ just. Family records at the heart of this work highlight policy measures targeting Aboriginal girls for removal into indentured domestic labour, and trigger questions on surveillance, representation and agency. This is a shared story; a decolonising project through poetic refusal, resistance and memory-making. It is our memory in the blood, and it does not always flow easily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia. She is a Research Fellow at Flinders University with an interest in decolonising state archives, currently engaging archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labour histories in SA. Her words have been installed and projected in exhibitions comprising text-object-video projection, including creative-arts research collaboration with the Unbound Collective. She has published widely, including with literary journals \u003cem\u003eOverland, Westerly, Southerly, Wasafiri International Contemporary Writing, TEXT\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCordite\u003c\/em\u003e. Her first poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eDirty Words\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Cordite Books in 2015.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Addictive poetry. This book heals and haunts. Real and unexpected. A stunning achievement.’ Ellen Van Neerven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Archival-Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e was deemed a landmark piece of Australian poetry by the judging panel.  Rooted in archival interrogation and historical reflection, the collection is a critical and timely piece that examines the origins of contemporary Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe judges were struck by the overall cohesiveness of the text and the manner in which Harkin weaved the archival, the familial and the political within the poetic form. They described it as: brave, innovative and challenging.' \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/about.unimelb.edu.au\/newsroom\/news\/2020\/december\/reckoning-with-australias-colonial-archive-poet-natalie-harkin-wins-raka-prize\"\u003eWINNER of the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"article\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2020-shortlisted-archival-poetics-natalie-harkin\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/a\u003e judges commented, '\u003cem\u003eArchival-Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e boldly reckons with traumatic histories of colonisation, the stolen generations and forced domestic labour. For Harkin, these histories are intimate. Her poetry draws deeply on her Nanna’s state archive records, weaving traces of haunting, missing narratives and accounts of state surveillance into richly conceived and fully-realised poems that remember, reconnect, and restore the loving bonds of blood-memory that beat across time.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e'\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.658824); caret-color: #626262; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important;\"\u003eAlthough Harkin does not mention \"indigenisation\" in her writing, she is in effect indigenising the colonial archives. She is bringing her voice and that of others to bear on what was and continues to be deposited by the ruling classes over the last 230 plus years. Each page that turns brings forth those long forgotten by those who would oppress them, never forgotten by their descendants. The language Harkin uses is not conventionally poetic in form, it is full of gaps and gasps, repetitions, stutterings, a channelling of the women and girls who were forced to be what they were not and had no wish to be. The archons ignored the fundamental aspects of humanity at their peril and documented that ignorance. Harkin restores humanity to her subjects through her weaving of words and images.' Judy Annear in NZ-based journal \u003cem style=\"caret-color: #202020; color: #202020; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/minarets.info\/apocrypha-archival-poetics-natalie-harkin\/\" style=\"color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emin-a-rets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatalie Harkin, \u003cem\u003eArchival-Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2019. Second printing 2020. 128mmx178mm. 3 chapbooks in slipcase. 17 images. 112pp (38pp; 42pp; 32pp). \u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-21-5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ahpl\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur thanks to Australian poet Peter Boyle for providing funding that made the 2020 second printing in the original full-colour chapbook form possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":9740599296052,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/IMG_5002.jpg?v=1599889580"},{"product_id":"toby-fitch-where-only-the-sky-had-hung-before","title":"Toby Fitch, Where Only the Sky had Hung Before","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Only the Sky had Hung Before\u003c\/em\u003e disassembles and reassembles language found in the textual wastelands of the internet and the literary canon. Across many spectrums, from slippery lists of factoids to indices of figurative language, from a pantoum of #staywoke tweets to deep cuts and collage treatments of \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land, The Argonauts\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, these poems mobilise tensions and continuities between form and fluidity, gender and genre, literature and spam, childhood and adulthood, the virtual and the real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWhere Only the Sky had Hung Before\u003c\/em\u003e, Toby Fitch practises a consummate alchemy. His poems—erasures, collages, supercuts, ghostings, inversions and more—transmute the material substances of literature, culture and lived experience, into new forms both playful and precise.” —Bella Li\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Among Fitch’s hybrid personae—‘fussily in the likeness of a mere man unfurling his inner lady’—his instantly charming mermaid guides us through fathoms of ingenious poetic recombinations that extend a long line of spirited experiment (Apollinaire, Mallarmé, Loy, Brennan, Edwards, Farrell, Howe, Carruthers \u0026amp;c). Some experiments here assay a conclusion—'We each consume 1 cubic metre (1000 litres) of poetry each year’. Top up\u003cbr\u003ewith this totally splendid book.” —Pam Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eToby Fitch is the author of four poetry collections: \u003cem\u003eRawshock\u003c\/em\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann 2012), which co-won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry; \u003cem\u003eJerilderies\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press 2014); \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press 2016); and the pocketbook\u003cem\u003e ILL LIT POP\u003c\/em\u003e (Flying Islands\/Cerberus Press, 2018); plus various chapbooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in London, Fitch grew up in Sydney, attending the University of Technology as an undergraduate, 2000–2005, and the University of Sydney as a doctoral candidate, 2011–2016. For his creative PhD he wrote his third book of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e, and a thesis, \u003cem\u003eThemparks: Alternative Play in Contemporary Australian Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e which together won the Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in Australian Poetry, 2017. He is the current poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e, a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney, and he runs the monthly poetry reading series at Sappho Books in Glebe. He lives in Sydney with his partner, two daughters and Staffordshire terrier, Minky. He tweets @Toby_Fitch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToby Fitch, \u003cem\u003eWhere Only the Sky had Hung Before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2019. 96pp. PB. 148mm x 210mm. 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Brilliant, rigorous and enigmatic.’ ― Rochelle Owens\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea.j. carruthers is an Australian-born experimental poet and critic. 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The hustle gives way to survival, cresting back into gritty victories via the feminist acquisition of corporate language. Open-plan everything, filing cabinets bursting; the promise of the ladder, beckoning you in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is the business! Smart-mouthed, pussy-bowed, funny\/not-funny. Pitch perfect ‘filthy snippets’ of office lore and career advice.\u003c\/em\u003e Kate Lilley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eMelinda Bufton is a Melbourne poet. Her work has appeared in many publications including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eCordite, Southerly, Axon \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e and was anthologized in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eContemporary Australian Feminist Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e (Hunter Publishers, 2016) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eContemporary Australian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattman, 2016). She holds a PhD from RMIT University, where she researched feminist poetics through creative practice.  In 2019 she was awarded the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e for the manuscript \u003ci\u003eMoxie, \u003c\/i\u003eresulting in its 2020 publication by Vagabond Press. Her previous poetry collections are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eGirlery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e (Inken Publisch, 2014) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eSuperette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Neuzeit Office', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann, 2018).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #333333; color: #333333; font-family: Apercu, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003ePresented by the Department of English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #333333; color: #333333; font-family: Apercu, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eat the University of Sydney, this award offers a cash prize of $7000 and publication with Vagabond Press of a collection of poems between 50-80 pages by an Australian woman poet. It is made possible by a generous bequest to the University by Helen Anne Bell. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelinda Bufton, \u003cem\u003eMoxie \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2020. 148mm x 210mm. 70pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-19-2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: TBA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelated links\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/arts\/news-and-events\/news\/2019\/12\/05\/winner-of-2019-helen-anne-bell-poetry-bequest-award-announced.html\"\u003eAnnouncement of the 2019 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ssqa\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31518789009460,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Bufton_-_Moxie_cover3.jpg?v=1599946766"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-notes-towards-the-dreambook-of-endings","title":"Peter Boyle, Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAgainst the backdrop of a world in crisis these poems speak of grief and beauty, of spirituality and resilience. Poems responding to nature, ekphrastic poems and meditations on the randomness of fate sit alongside more personal poems of loss, while in the title sequence dream narratives are interspersed with often short, highly visual poems in an extended questioning of what it means to live and write in the face of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We all write our own dreambook – endings, beginnings, what is on-the-way. Boyle urges us to do so with enthralled attention, with care for our lives, our deaths and what is in the middle, our daily – indeed blink-of-an-eye – transformations. Notes, by their modest nature, are made to be left, found, carried:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eToday the house is still\u003cbr\u003e and, in my shirt pocket, memory places\u003cbr\u003e the note to collect from the Dry Cleaners the trousers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ewith the hole to be mended\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ein the right pocket where my life might\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eany moment slip through.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd though ‘(o)ur hands [might often be] filled with loss and jagged \/ explosions of strangeness’, I would recommend that with full advantage of the note’s \u003cem\u003eease of transport \u003c\/em\u003eyou take Boyle’s words, tucked this time within the pocket of your heart, into the soul-searching that is our enduring and ‘eternal miracle’.\" MTC Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/peter-boyle-title-enfolded-in-the-wings-of-a-great-darkness\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which won the 2020 Kenneth Slessor Prize, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\"\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier's Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle's poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Vietnamese and Chinese. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had six books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature by José Kozer\u003c\/em\u003e due out in April 2018 from University of Alabama Press. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literary Translation. Peter has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focussing on the relationship between the tradition of heteronymous poetry and poetry translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2020. 148mm x 210mm. 144pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-20-8\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37170898960541,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/BoyleDreambookcover.jpg?v=1609454269"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-notes-towards-the-dreambook-of-endings-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Peter Boyle, Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAgainst the backdrop of a world in crisis these poems speak of grief and beauty, of spirituality and resilience. Poems responding to nature, ekphrastic poems and meditations on the randomness of fate sit alongside more personal poems of loss, while in the title sequence dream narratives are interspersed with often short, highly visual poems in an extended questioning of what it means to live and write in the face of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We all write our own dreambook – endings, beginnings, what is on-the-way. Boyle urges us to do so with enthralled attention, with care for our lives, our deaths and what is in the middle, our daily – indeed blink-of-an-eye – transformations. Notes, by their modest nature, are made to be left, found, carried:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eToday the house is still\u003cbr\u003e and, in my shirt pocket, memory places\u003cbr\u003e the note to collect from the Dry Cleaners the trousers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ewith the hole to be mended\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ein the right pocket where my life might\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eany moment slip through.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd though ‘(o)ur hands [might often be] filled with loss and jagged \/ explosions of strangeness’, I would recommend that with full advantage of the note’s \u003cem\u003eease of transport \u003c\/em\u003eyou take Boyle’s words, tucked this time within the pocket of your heart, into the soul-searching that is our enduring and ‘eternal miracle’.\" MTC Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/peter-boyle-title-enfolded-in-the-wings-of-a-great-darkness\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which won the 2020 Kenneth Slessor Prize, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\"\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier's Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle's poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Vietnamese and Chinese. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had six books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature by José Kozer\u003c\/em\u003e due out in April 2018 from University of Alabama Press. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literary Translation. Peter has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focussing on the relationship between the tradition of heteronymous poetry and poetry translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2020. 148mm x 210mm. 144pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-20-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37489089446045,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/BoyleDreambookcover_c7a2188d-750c-4c97-9cb1-d8c3b09c4c03.jpg?v=1609450269"},{"product_id":"emily-stewart-running-time","title":"Emily Stewart, Running Time","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA fine-tuned book-length assemblage of dispersed ‘cerebral offcuts’, virtuosically inventing ‘the shape of a mood’. Nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual: ‘following some line’ of ‘live consciousness’, ‘inner in outer’, ‘what’s around’. Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax. Condensed, sharp pops of resonant fragments create their own fresh textures and juxtapositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/news-opinion\/news\/2021\/11\/12\/australias-richest-poetry-prize-announced.html\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/news-opinion\/news\/2021\/11\/12\/australias-richest-poetry-prize-announced.html\"\u003eHelen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021 judges\u003c\/a\u003e (Kate Lilley, Pam Brown and Melinda Bufton) praised \u003cem\u003eRunning Time\u003c\/em\u003e as 'nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual ... Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Stewart lives and works on Wangal land. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including \u003cem\u003eLike\u003c\/em\u003e (Bulky News Press) and \u003cem\u003eThe Internet Blue\u003c\/em\u003e (First Draft). Her debut collection \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/stewart-knocks\"\u003eKnocks\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2016) won the inaugural Noel Rowe Poetry Award. Emily’s writing is frequently published in outlets including Running Dog, RealTime, Overland and The Saturday Paper. She was formerly the poetry editor at Giramondo Publishing and is currently completing a creative doctorate at the Writing and Society Research Centre. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Stewart, \u003cem\u003eRunning Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2022. 127mm x 178mm. 80pp.\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-34-5\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: March 2022. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover images © Emily Stewart, 2021.\u003cbr\u003eAuthor photo: Lucy Parakhina.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublication of Emily Stewart's \u003cem\u003eRunning Time\u003c\/em\u003e was made possible by funding from the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award in association with the University of Sydney.\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41414650232989,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Stewart-FrontCover.jpg?v=1640394398"},{"product_id":"emilie-collyer-do-you-have-anything-less-domestic","title":"Emilie Collyer, Do you have anything less domestic?","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE INAUGURAL 5 ISLANDS POETRY PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK OF POETRY 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘What sets the winning book apart is its depth of effects and the frequency of astonishing, breathtaking turns, insights, and denouements...Do You Have Anything Less Domestic? demonstrates that the best personal writing illuminates a more universal experience.’ 5 Islands Judges’ report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003eDo you have anything less domestic?\u003c\/em\u003e may be a debut, but Emilie Collyer is no debutante. She is an award-winning playwright of international renown. And although this is her first poetry collection, Collyer is a long established, much loved and highly regarded voice in the Melbourne poetry scene, and her poems have been widely anthologised. As Lisa Gorton observes in her endorsement, ‘this is the work of years’. Indeed, those years are keenly felt – in the honed poetic craft as well as the weight of grief accrued by a woman navigating midlife, a woman who unwittingly finds herself ‘the adult in this house’ (p.19) and wonders if life might have anything more alluring on offer.' Bronwyn Lovell in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/textjournal.scholasticahq.com\/article\/40227-text-reviews-october-2022\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTEXT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNavigating the world, inheriting the gender of woman, feeling more or less comfortable with that, trying to find the ways in which the word is inhabited and where it slips away; wondering where the domestic bleeds into the public; whose place is where and what are the rules? These questions form the basis of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDo you have anything less domestic?\u003c\/em\u003e The poems within whisper quietly behind closed doors at night; take trips out into daily life with a sharp eye and worried tongue; tease at generalities and assumptions about what a woman’s body of work is, what it does, how it looks, reads and feels. The collection is structured into five sections that each take one of these utterances as their heading (each said to or about the author at one time): \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDo you have anything less domestic; Don’t write about your family, nobody cares; It's important to keep up weight bearing exercise; You have a nice smile, you should use it more; I hope I won’t put anyone off by saying this is genuinely feminist work.\u003c\/em\u003e The poems move from the intimate and domestic, through family and social themed works, and out to broader themed pieces that are overtly feminist in how they interrogate language, content and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Collyer explores the nexus between the public and the private in this witty and provocative collection of poetry that moves from the familial sphere to the world at large. It’s an acerbic, playful and feminist book.' Thuy On in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/news\/features\/10-underrated-books-in-2022-2594860\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArts Hub\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Individual, staunch, and always engaging, Emilie Collyer’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDo you have anything less domestic?\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of years, and its publication will bring a strong new voice into Australian poetry.' Lisa Gorton\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmilie Collyer lives in Naarm\/Melbourne’s west, on Wurundjeri land, where she writes poetry, plays and prose. Her work mines the intersection of the personal, the existential and the socio-political and she is interested in bringing different forms into conversation with each other. Her writing has most recently been published in anthologies including \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHouse of Ideas: Modern Women\u003c\/em\u003e (Heide \u0026amp; Rabbit), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNot Very Quiet: The Anthology and Borderless: A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (both with Recent Work Press) and in journals \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBooth\u003c\/em\u003e (USA), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Blue Nib\u003c\/em\u003e (Ireland), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ekphrastic Review\u003c\/em\u003e (USA), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRabbit, Axon, TEXT, Imagined Theatres, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Overland \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lifted Brow\u003c\/em\u003e. She was the 2020 recipient of a Varuna Publishing Fellowship with Giramondo Publishing and recent accolades include shortlisting for Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition 2019 \u0026amp; 2020 and runner-up Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2019. Recent plays are \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContest, Dream Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Good Girl \u003c\/em\u003ewhich has been produced in New York, Hollywood and Florida. Emilie’s plays have won and been nominated for multiple awards including the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (London), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Awards, George Fairfax, Patrick White and Malcolm Robertson. Emilie also works as a dramaturg and text consultant. She has a Masters in Writing for Performance from VCA and is a current PhD candidate in creative writing at RMIT where she is researching contemporary feminist writing practice. She is a member of Australian Association of Writing Programs, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, Theatre Network Australia, Writers Victoria and Varuna Writers’ Centre Alumni.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmilie Collyer, \u003cem\u003eDo you have anything less domestic?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 112pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-40-6\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Daisy Noyes, 2020. \u003cem\u003eBurning Bush\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/daisynoyes.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41701616648349,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Collyer_frontcover.jpg?v=1640391261"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-ideas-of-travel","title":"Peter Boyle, Ideas of Travel","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Late in his career, Boyle has embarked on one of the most sustained flights of inspiration of any writer currently working. The results are luminous.' Declan Fry, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-04-02\/best-new-books-to-read-in-april-2022\/100948988\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Best new books to read in April 2022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eABC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA path headed off underneath a row of low-lying bushes, below the tangle of old trees, small splashes of yellow paint indicating a direction of sorts, and silvery rays of light revealed a creek moving under the branches. And, for you, behind it all there was this conviction that something would always lead somewhere – as if feeling the sun for one moment on your body wasn’t enough ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIdeas of Travel \u003c\/em\u003ebuilds in significant ways on Peter Boyle's previous two books, his award-winning \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e. This collection again taps into a deep dreamlike symbolism and directs this to great existential effect. Even staying still we are travelling—across the seasons, across the day, across a life. Written over fourteen months of the pandemic, \u003cem\u003eIdeas of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e subverts the boundaries between the living and the dead, the human and the non-human, ourselves and others. In this sequence of 140 new poems acclaimed poet Peter Boyle examines our sense of what it is to be alive.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Peter Boyle is one of the best and most fascinating of Australian poets ...' Martin Duwell\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2020 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier’s Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle’s poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese. With MTC Cronin he is the author of two collaborative books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eHow Does a Man Who is Dead Re-invent His Body? The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWho Was\u003c\/em\u003e. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had eight books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature\u003c\/em\u003e by José Kozer. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Translation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\nPeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eIdeas of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 160 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-36-9\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41701622022301,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Boyle_IdeasOfTravel_cover2.jpg?v=1640391863"},{"product_id":"misbah-wolf-carapace","title":"Misbah Wolf, Carapace","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarapace\u003c\/em\u003e takes for its title an extension of the idea of shelter, protection and home and attempts to crack the outer shell of language to reveal the vulnerability of language forms, relationships, and safety. It archives the journey of a young girl towards developing, losing, and leaving relationships within share-houses. This book is a follow on from Rooftops in Karachi, where the young girl has left her family home in Australia to begin at the age of 15 to navigate the world of relationships within the boundaries of temporary share-housing. Further responding to Gaston Bachelard’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetics of Space\u003c\/em\u003e is the conviction that there are traceable transcendent possibilities of personal poetic phenomenology within the realm of the house. This work is distinctly a meditation on experiences of share-housing and seeks through the dimensions of the house, an archive of her encounters with sex, mental health, and identity, as experienced distinctly by a young POC woman in Brisbane from the mid 90s. The recollections are a new dialectic of inhabiting temporary space and relationships best expressed through a creature who is developing an outer shell, which is the only home she really embodies. The archive is intensely invested in corporeal experience, and is, sometimes explicit and forthright in its explorations. It makes a vital and original contribution to feminist writing, particularly POC Queer writing and to the Australian literary landscape since it invests and insists on narrative that gestures towards the beautiful and transcendental experiences.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'There is a diamond-like depth to the work, each piece a perfect prism of recollected reels and flesh-fable scapes. Survival, belonging, sex and identity are some of the dorsal points which weave through \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarapace\u003c\/em\u003e.' Annie Te Whiu\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMisbah Wolf is a Melbourne based poet. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of QLD. The author of one chapbook, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/db3\/products\/misbah-rooftops-in-karachi-db3?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=1abfddb18\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRooftops in Karachi\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Press 2018), she has for over 15 years published poetry, performed as an artist and musician both within arts festivals like Queensland Poetry Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Brisbane’s Slam Poetry Festivals, and more recently as costume and art developer for theatre in the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019. As well as contributing her considerable creative talents to running writing workshops, radio shows on Melbourne’s RRR and performing in the underground music scene of the mid 2000’s in Brisbane, she performed and collaborated for many years with world renowned bands like Daevid Allen’s Gong and performed alongside the famous vanguard of spoken-word poetry and award-winning poet David Stavanger, aka Ghostboy. Her first book \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRooftops in Karachi \u003c\/em\u003ewas highly commended in the Shapcott Poetry Prize and acclaimed by Thomas Shapcott, Bronwyn Lea, and John Kinsella. Both Lea and Kinsella have referenced and further commented on her important contribution to the new poetic voice of the Australian poetry scene in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e, and in Lea’s essay \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralian Poetry Now\u003c\/em\u003e in 2016, and in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePolysituatedness: A poetics of displacement \u003c\/em\u003eby John Kinsella in 2017. Her work has also been discussed by the award-winning American Poetry Professor and Poet, Timothy Yu in his review of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJournal Contemporary Asian Australian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCordite Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work went on to be commended in the same year Kinsella won the Wesley Michel Poetry Prize in 2018. Wolf also acted as a guest deputy editor for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e in 2014 and has published her work through \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeril Magazine, Australia Poetry Journal, Cordite, Slow Canoe, Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, Mascara Literary Journal \u003c\/em\u003eand has featured on ABC’s Radio National Poetica. Her fiction has appeared both in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeril\u003c\/em\u003e and been longlisted in the Liminal Fiction Prize and subsequently published in an anthology \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollisions-Fictions of the Future: An anthology of Australian writers of Colour\u003c\/em\u003e in 2020. She was commissioned by \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCordite\u003c\/em\u003e in 2019 to be a guest contributor and respond to the theme of ‘resistance’. Again, Wolf in the same year was asked to respond as a guest contributor to this same theme in\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Australian Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Volume 7, 2019, edited by Kinsella.\u003c\/div\u003e\nMisbah Wolf, \u003cem\u003eCarapace\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 48 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-41-3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41701628313757,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Wolf_Carapace_FrontCover.jpg?v=1640392544"}],"url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/australia.oembed?page=3","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}