{"title":"Limited editions","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"bella-li-argosy-hardback-signed-and-numbered-limited-edition","title":"Bella Li, Argosy (Limited hardback edition of 50 signed and numbered copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited hardback edition of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBella Li\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $80.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e180pp. 229mm x 152mm. 57 colour images. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies signed and numbered by the author, printed on Wood-Free 120GSM paper, thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-96-1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14535972683828,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/IMG_1397.JPG?v=1552787165"},{"product_id":"bella-li-lost-lake-limited-hardback-edition-of-30-signed-and-numbered-copies","title":"Bella Li, Lost Lake (Limited hardback edition of 30 signed copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited hardback edition of 30 signed copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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. 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\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $80.00 \u003cbr\u003eApril 2018. 176pp. 140mm x 210mm. 54 colour images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited edition of 30 hardback copies signed by the author, printed on Wood-Free 120GSM paper, thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-18-5 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ftjx\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\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  \u003cbr\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":14536064466996,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Lost_Lake_8505e7a1-6e7f-4483-84d3-233e85df3c90.jpg?v=1552787315"},{"product_id":"a-j-carruthers-axis-book-2-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"a.j. carruthers, Axis Book 2 (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe facts: \u003cem\u003eAXIS Book 2\u003c\/em\u003e follows from \u003cem\u003eAXIS Book 1: Areal\u003c\/em\u003e as the second installment of my lifelong long poem. Written mostly on an ACER Aspire S 13 computer between 2015 and 2019, Book 2 is made of 3 microbooks – Blazar, Chorastics, Disk – \u0026amp; comprises 30 poems in total. \u003cem\u003eBlazars\u003c\/em\u003e; black hole objects with jet axes pointing towards earth. \u003cem\u003eChorastics\u003c\/em\u003e; a chorus, a human cluster. \u003cem\u003eDisk\u003c\/em\u003e; the shape of some galaxies but also a compact storage device. Each microbook; equal number of lines for each register. \u003cem\u003eBlazar\u003c\/em\u003e in 3 registers (258 lines), \u003cem\u003eChorastics\u003c\/em\u003e in 4 (680 lines), \u003cem\u003eDisk\u003c\/em\u003e in 5 (360). Ends with music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eAXIS\u003c\/em\u003e forges an architecture of meaning, pattern and sound that functions like the mind of the poet in process. 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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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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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). 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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\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\" dir=\"auto\"\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 style=\"text-align: start;\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e(Winner of 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry - judges' report)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\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\"\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\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 style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/mtmb\/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":28874718674996,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Boyle_cover_front_cover_a4ddb6e3-3fd1-403b-90be-9894ac928b43.jpg?v=1561922028"},{"product_id":"jessica-l-wilkinson-music-made-visible-a-biography-of-george-balanchine-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Jessica L.Wilkinson, Music Made Visible (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\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. 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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\u003cbr\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":28874727817268,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Wilkinson_Balanchine_cover_5f58caa7-0808-415a-bc32-6ff9aee7b7f8.jpg?v=1561922169"},{"product_id":"thom-sullivan-carte-blanche-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Thom Sullivan, Carte Blanche (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Noel Rowe Poetry Award 2017-8.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Mary Gilmore Award 2020.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/pnsp\/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":28874732372020,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Sullivan_cover_c5e55241-6aee-4460-a15d-1ef3699dfa53.jpg?v=1561922238"},{"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":"copy-of-lk-holt-capacity-hardback","title":"LK Holt, Capacity (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCapacity\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume with two chambers. The first, 'Modern Woman Sonnets', comprises twenty-six wild and precise love poems, which can be traced back to those of the Renaissance original Louise Labé. These sonnets are versions, hardly, or echoes, clearly, of Labé’s, and perpetuate the internal logic of her love. The book’s second part, 'Demonics', contains poems of a dark and numinous music, contemplating myriad forms of possession. The lyrical, transformative structures of Holt's poems provide ‘a field of force’ for the daimonic to play, within the self and without. The darting humour and lucid astonishments of her previous work can be found here in \u003cem\u003eCapacity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLK Holt's previous collection \u003cem\u003eBirth Plan\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press), was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premiers' Award for Poetry and the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry. She has been the recipient of the NSW Premiers' Award for Poetry, the Grace Leven Prize, and has been longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. She lives in Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLK Holt,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Capacity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 80pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-27-7\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin: 0pxpx 0pxpx 0pxpx 0pxpx; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/shutterstock_397208941-2_240x240.jpg?v=1618608641\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFUNDED BY OUR READERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection was crowdfunded via \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe 2021 Vagabond Press Survival Fund.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThank you to the generous souls who gave big and small. 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Filled with that sprawling megalopolis’ vibrance and surprise, and steeped in Korea’s poetic traditions, this is a hyperactive book for a hyperactive age. ' Queensland Literary Awards judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Dan Disney’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e dissects the psychogeography of information, knowledge and lived experience of place and time into glistening fragments. These fragments cluster into channels of almost-narrative, rethinking the vivid experience of humanity in a world that is simultaneously ancient and hyper-modern. The ‘I’ in these poems is a distiller and reshaper of observation, a protagonist exploring the ethics of knowledge and creative production in the time of digital capital. The balance in this collection between keen observation of ever-changing social modalities and a recognition of the internality of perception allows Disney to fashion a visionary poetics that delves into the nature of consciousness.  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The collection is energised by its respectful and adventurous engagement with the traditional Korean sijo form. Disney works on the edge of the sijo, testing its aphoristic nature, experimenting with machine translations and working to question and destabilise the reader’s relationship with language. In doing so Disney delivers language which is pared back, intricately crafted and committed to both questioning and recording the kinetic experience of the twenty-first century. This collection is utterly of its time, of the now, genuinely humanistic, deeply aware of place and the intricacies of responsibility and care. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e balances mobility and stillness, gnomic contraction and allusive expansion, blazing ambition and idiosyncratic humour. The poems’ exploration of observing offers a radical consideration of the poetic ‘I’, and its place in the human and more-than-human worlds. All this is managed with deftness and aplomb, in a collection that is surprising, radical, provocative and tender. This is a book about poetry’s breath and its potential to open up the world in exhilarating ways.' \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-winner-accelerations-inertias\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-winner-accelerations-inertias\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards judges\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Dan Disney's \u003cem\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable work of self-critiquing, inverting hybridity. This is a restive book in which new skyscrapers and museums, temples and consumer fetishism are complementary, and not necessarily in tension. In these ‘distillations’ there is no quietism, and the ‘museum of the future’ is a question with fear and doubt in the air about it. The key to this work – the best of Disney’s, I think – remains the critique of a crisis of capital, a deep respect for environment, a deep respect for culture and its complexities, a wonder mixed with a toughness of observation and understanding of what being an observer means.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Disney's previous full-length collections are\u003cem\u003e and then when the\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eMannequin’s Guide to Utopias\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eEither, Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). 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He teaches with the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Disney,\u003cem\u003e accelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 80pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-33-8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\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":39980577292445,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Disneycover_6e7d6ec5-f77c-42d0-b880-2ea6397ef01d.jpg?v=1621546038"},{"product_id":"eleanor-jackson-gravidity-and-parity-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Eleanor Jackson, Gravidity and Parity (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWINNER of the Small Press Network Book of the Year 2022 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHighly Commended in the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHighly Commended in the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGravidity and Parity\u003c\/em\u003e [...] [uses] poetry to shine a light into the isolation of pregnancy and birth. Poetry becomes a natural language for capturing everyday experiences in the strangeness of 2020. The slow time of lockdown intensified by the slow time of pregnancy creates an aura of noticing everything, while the hyper-vigilance of scanning the media environment in 2020 is a poignant juxtaposition to the hyper-awareness of the deep interiority of the pregnant body. The medicalisation of pregnancy resonates with the themes of the pandemic in interesting ways, reminding us how much life and death (in their strange intimate dance) is outside our control; sometimes it seems as though the whole of society is constructed to conceal this fact. So often in literature the pregnant body is a metaphor, representing myriad social anxieties and expectations about gender, humanity, the future. Here the body is the body, and the realities of pregnancy, labour, care and birth are relevant to the 100% of people who have ever been born. This is a deeply human and moving collection, and approachable for those who don’t usually read poetry.' \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSPN Book of the Year 2022 judges.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGravidity and Parity\u003c\/em\u003e explores the narrative opportunities of pregnancy loss, pregnancy and early motherhood set against the unfolding experience of the COVID 19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith bleak humour, crisp language and the intricate realities of the body, Gravidity and Parity considers the natal taboo while documenting the strange, performance of life celebrated, mourned, connected and disconnected under lockdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Eleanor Jackson’s Gravidity and Parity sets up an intricate narrative structure that follows the progress of pregnancy, at first as a story of loss, and then another one of birth then early motherhood. The poems are as varied in form – verse and prose poem, scattered fragment and formal structure – as they are in theme, and the book is as animated and intense as the birth process it writes about. It’s not simply a book about pregnancy, however, as all life intrudes including the current pandemic. And, yes, of course, all of us have been birthed. The book, given its title, deftly counterpoises the idea of pregnancy and equality, in other words, what is equal and not equal in the process of childbearing, what contradictions and boundaries make up this process. Jackson skilfully tempers the technical with observational clarity, wit and irony. As she writes, ‘all living, \/ all love is mongrel work’. This bracing and moving book engages, sometimes fearlessly, then playfully, with what it means to make life in all its intricacies and intimacies.' \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eASAL Mary Gilmore Award 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e Judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGravidity and Parity\u003c\/em\u003e examines its subject broadly, deeply and maturely. It is likely to reward repeated reading' \u003cstrong\u003eWesterly\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/gravidity-and-parity\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/gravidity-and-parity\/\"\u003eread more\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This collection pays tribute to the things that are \"blemished and fundamental.\" Those that cannot be contained by our meagre narratives about pregnancy and motherhood. Nor should they be. A book like this should be read by everyone who was mothered\/is mothered\/does mothering. By every body that has held another body within it. Or hopes to. Jackson expands on our ideas of pregnancy and motherhood, fully acknowledging the space between what we are told it should be, and what it actually is. By insisting on other ways, different stories, Jackson ushers us into a world that is terrible and beautiful in equal measures, and at the same time.' – Natalie Kon-yu \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and community radio broadcaster. She is the author of A Leaving (Vagabond Press) and her live album, One Night Wonders, is produced by Going Down Swinging. Eleanor is committed to developing and hosting events and experiences that showcase the diversity of both poetic language and writers and audiences. She is the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map and a former Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine, Board Member of Queensland Poetry Festival and Vice-Chair of the Stella Prize. She is currently Chair of Peril Magazine, an online magazine committed to celebrating Asian Australian arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleanor Jackson in conversation with Fiona Wallace as part of the SPN Book of the Year Award. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/smallpressnetwork.com.au\/in-conversation-with-boty-shortlisted-author-eleanor-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead more ...\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleanor Jackson,\u003cem\u003e Gravidity and Parity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-25-3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\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\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\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39980589711517,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Jacksoncover_4e8e9163-e59c-412b-a264-4747b768fbb6.jpg?v=1621546335"},{"product_id":"john-kinsella-supervivid-depastoralism-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"John Kinsella, Supervivid Depastoralism (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Supervivid Depastoralism\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a multifaceted and restless mind at work, ranging through nightscapes, landscapes, and the cratered zones that colonisation leaves in its wake. The infinity of sheep grazing on a hillside, the misrecognised call of the boobook owl, the rock dragon, the yellow-plumed honeyeater: all demand new and self-reflexive poetic interaction. Kinsella pursues this through syntactical brilliance and deft imagery, allowing his richly observational mode to wholly refigure previously ‘settled’ relationships and subjectivities.' \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e judges \u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-shortlisted-supervivid-depastoralism\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-shortlisted-supervivid-depastoralism\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description: I don't sleep much or very well (I have a recent book of poetry entitled Insomnia!), but, when I do, I often have supervivid dreams. It is said that in the time of Covid-19, many people are speaking of having more vivid dreams than usual, and though the poems in this manuscript are not-specifically 'Covid-19 poems', at certain points of the manuscript they certainly make contact with this overwhelming reality and condition of crisis. But this is essentially a book in a lifecycle of trying to confront and consider the impacts of colonial agribusiness mono agricultural practices on Australia, and how it is or isn't possible to write about these issues within the conventions of the pastoral tradition of literature. Can 'pastoralism' and environmentalism intersect in meaningful ways or is it all a colonial ruse? As a committed environmentalist and human rights landrights justice campaigner, my poetry necessarily considers the place I work out of (largely wheatbelt Western Australia), and the problems of writing poetry 'about' rurality and ecology, as well as addressing the ongoing colonialism. This new book is an attempt to push my anti, post, counter, and radical pastoral to the point where it also becomes a means of considering where agricultural culpabilities intersect with personal histories and behaviours, where creativity that comes out of a critique of invasive and damaging wrongs is in itself up for question. So this is a work of self-critique, questioning, and also aspiration to vividly confront and find ways through this crisis of presence. The 'Australian Pastoral' is a construct, a propaganda device that suits all sorts of oppressive modes, and is easily a place to retreat into even when it is being questioned: I am trying to bring all this into eclogic discussion, to contest it further as part of a long and linguistically diverse process of contestation. This book 'connects' with other books on 'pastoral' I have written over the decades, including other recent work (in progress) on odes and eclogues (longer pieces largely) - but this is a collection of shorter poems. The book could be subtitled: Eclogix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Kinsella is the author of over seventy books of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, edited works (such as \u003cem\u003eThe Penguin Book of Australian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e), and collaborative works. His many awards include the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry (twice) and the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry (three times). Among his recent books published in Australia are \u003cem\u003eHollow Earth\u003c\/em\u003e (a novel: Transit Lounge, 2019), \u003cem\u003eLucida Intervalla\u003c\/em\u003e (a novel: UWA Publishing, 2018); \u003cem\u003eOn the Outskirts\u003c\/em\u003e (poetry: UQP, 2017), \u003cem\u003eOld Growth\u003c\/em\u003e (stories: Transit Lounge, 2017), \u003cem\u003eDrowning in Wheat: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Picador, 2016), \u003cem\u003eCrow’s Breath\u003c\/em\u003e (stories: Transit Lounge, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eDisplaced: a rural memoir\u003c\/em\u003e (Transit Lounge, 2020). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University (where he finishes December 31st, 2020). A frequent collaborator with other poets, writers, artist, musicians, and thinkers, he lives on Ballardong Noongar land at ‘Jam Tree Gully’ in the Western Australian wheatbelt (north of Toodyay). In 2007 he received the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Kinsella,\u003cem\u003e Supervivid Depastoralism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 144pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-24-6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\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\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39980604391581,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Kinsellacover_140b933a-9157-4510-9c11-4aba6de255df.jpg?v=1621546546"},{"product_id":"ann-vickery-bees-do-bother-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Ann Vickery, Bees Do Bother (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for 2022 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'In \u003cem\u003eBees Do Bother\u003c\/em\u003e, poet Ann Vickery performs a kind of cultural studies that interrogates settler culture through the microcosm of the bee colony. Bees appear throughout the collection as specimen, motif, and homonyms. Vickery’s poems are urgent: they pulse as much with intelligence as with desire.' Queensland Literary Awards judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Carepack\u003c\/em\u003e takes its cue from Leonardo da Vinci’s observation that the bee does not simply collect and use but digests and transforms. It considers firstly, how our understanding of social interactions might borrow from those of the more-thanhuman and secondly, that we need to reconceptualise existence as closely connected to the more-than-human. As Maurice Maeterlinck noted as far back as 1901, “If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” As its title suggests, the collection plays upon the dual meaning of bothering as an act of care as much as an act of disturbance. The central question driving \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBees Do Bother\u003c\/em\u003e is: how might we creatively draw together these strands of care and activism? Taking a specifically feminist approach, the poetry collection considers how experiences of intimacy and labour have been shaped by cultural hierarchies and divisions around gender, race, capital, and nation. It explores how poetry might highlight existing social and ecological vulnerability and unsettle prescribed roles. In imaginatively teasing out and beginning the work of transforming relations, how might poetry lead to more sustainable forms of belonging and solidarity? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Bees Do Bother\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable and complex lyric invention, funny, fierce, simmering and spectral. Its shifting tectonics of syntax and reference are unflinching, often satiric yet rooted in deep principled concerns. In this powerful multivocal collection, readers will find themselves rethinking what it is to be human. What might bees and the non-human tell us, not just metaphorically but materially, about ourselves, our ways of organising work and relationships, our communities, and our vulnerabilities and complicities. With brilliance and intensity as well as tenderness, Ann Vickery reorients our gaze to ask how can we deal more ethically with our shaky knowledges, our often-shirked responsibilities and our perilous future that is already here.' Jill Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnn Vickery teaches writing and literature at Deakin University. She is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eDevious Intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e (Hunter Publishers, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Pocketbook of Swoon\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2014). She was the Australasian representative at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2016, collaborated on the “Venetian Blind” installation at the 2019 Personal Structures: Identities exhibition in Venice, and collaborated with ClimActs at the Biennale of Australian Art in 2018. She has had poetry translated in Dutch, German, and Vietnamese and also published in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her work has been anthologised in a number of Best Australian Poems, shortlisted for two Helen Anne Bell Bequest Poetry Awards, and appeared in a number of national and international anthologies. She is also the author of two monographs, \u003cem\u003eLeaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) and \u003cem\u003eStressing the Modern: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt, 2007). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnn Vickery,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Carepack \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 80pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-26-0\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39980619563165,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Vickerycover_103c13ad-f038-4b3f-93d4-7be906c26d7a.jpg?v=1621546851"},{"product_id":"tanikawa-shuntaro-ordinary-people-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Tanikawa Shuntarō, Ordinary People (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Takako Lento.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Ordinary People by Tanikawa Shuntarō is a friendly invitation to people-watch. Weaving in and out of first- and third-person speakers, the poems offer glimpses into personal, everyday moments, with a few delightful pockets of absurdity. In one poem, someone washes his briefs and thinks he will not die. In another, someone imagines the dusk of Mars. The poems are a result of empathetic observation which hints at the interior lives of its subjects, encouraging us to fill in the rest. The down-to-earth translation by Takako Lento is expertly transparent, allowing the poet’s warm glance to come through without pretense.’ Judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn its surface, \u003cem\u003eOrdinary People\u003c\/em\u003e is a leisurely account of people-watching. These people pass by us, one after another, occasionally remarking on their own circumstances and observations of life. These individuals collectively give us a kaleidoscopic mapping of the world we all live in, even though each is arrested in a moment in life that seems totally mundane or even absurd. But curiously we begin to feel empathy and share with them a thrill of mystery, joy of discovery, or even satisfaction in accepting the enigma of life, as we fill out ‘the scenes’. Through this process we watch these individuals, taken collectively, form an intriguingly cohesive universe, just as thousands of miniature photos can create a photo-mosaic portrait. In the end we realize that Tanikawa has forged a picture of humanity in our times, out of a casual parade of ‘ordinary’ people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTanikawa Shuntarō is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculation regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of numerous awards, he has authored over 100 volumes of poetry, light verse, and word-play. In addition he published translations in many genres including the comic strip \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMother Goose\u003c\/em\u003e rhymes. He has also produced a wide range of children’s books, essays, song lyrics, and scripts for radio, TV, and film. He lives in Tokyo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTakako Lento translates poetry and prose from Japanese to English and vice versa. Her recent books of translation and critical essays include \u003cem\u003eTamura Ryu-ichi, on the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master (\u003c\/em\u003eco-ed. Wayne Miller); \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Being Alone: Tanikawa Shuntarō, Poems 1952 – 2009; Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson\u003c\/em\u003e (with W.S. Merwin); \u003cem\u003ePioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eButterfly\u003c\/em\u003e by Kashiwagi Mari. She lives in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\nTanikawa Shuntarō,\u003cem\u003e Ordinary People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Takako Lento\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 46pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-29-1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin: 0pxpx 10pxpx 0pxpx 0pxpx; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/shutterstock_397208941-2_240x240.jpg?v=1618608641\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/shutterstock_397208941-2_240x240.jpg?v=1618608641\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0pxpx 10pxpx 0pxpx 0pxpx; float: left;\" width=\"240x240\" height=\"240x240\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFUNDED BY OUR READERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection was crowdfunded via \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe 2021 Vagabond Press Survival Fund.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThank you to the generous souls who gave big and small. 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A series of fragmentary ‘journal’ poems spanning from London to Berlin, arises in part from the tensions and strangeness of prolonged lockdown in both cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetra White was born in Adelaide in 1975 and currently lives in Berlin with her husband and daughter. Her previous full-length collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Incoming Tide\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eThe Simplified World\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eA Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and \u003cem\u003eReading for a Quiet Morning\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). 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Heather Blakey, \u003cem\u003eWesterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e of Kazue Shinkawa covers the oeuvre of one of the greatest poets of the modern Japan, covering a span of 60 years from her debut book 'Nemuri isu' (The Sleeping Chair), published in 1953, to her latest collection Bookend. It contains about fifty poems from more than ten volumes, including such monumental work as 'Please Do Not Bundle Me', 'Not a Metaphor', 'Odes to the Soil' and poems for children. The introduction by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto follows the footsteps of Shinkawa’s extraordinary jouney as an iconclastic woman poet trying to reconcile Western modernity with her Japanese literary heritage. All translations are new, done especially for this collection by the unique team of Takako Lento, a renowned translator dedicated to modern Japanese poetry, and Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, a leading contemporary Japanese poet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKazue Shinkawa was born in 1929 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Since her first book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Sleeping Chair,\u003c\/em\u003e came out in 1953, more than 30 books of her poetry have been published including many “selected poems” and two complete works. She has also published half a dozen books of poetry for children and compiled many anthologies. For the female poets in Japan, Kazue Shinkawa is an important mother figure, mainly thanks to her co-founding, together with Sachiko Yoshihara, the women’s poetry magazine La Mer, which existed for ten years from 1983 to 1993, helping launch the careers of many younger female poets. With her poems appearing in a variety of media ranging from weekly magazines to national newspapers, radio and TV programs, to serious literature reviews, and many of her printed poems being made into songs and performed by chorus groups all over the country, Kazue Shinkawa is one of the most popular and respected poets in Japan today. One of her readers, Empress Emerita Michiko, even translated two of Shinkawa’s poems into English, which was published in 2019 with a DVD containing her own reading of those poems. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYotsumoto Yasuhiro, born in 1959, recently edited and translated \u003cem\u003eStay home on the Earth!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Poetic Works Homo Sapiens\u003c\/em\u003e, both a multinational anthology of the contemporary poetry. He has also published thirteen books of poetry, two novels, and two books of literary criticism, including \u003cem\u003eTanikawa Shuntarology\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTakako Lento translates poetry and prose from Japanese to English and vice versa. Her recent books of translation and critical essays include \u003cem\u003eTamura Ryūichi, on the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master\u003c\/em\u003e (co-ed. Wayne Miller); \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Being Alone: Tanikawa Shuntarō\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Poems 1952 – 2009; Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson\u003c\/em\u003e (with W.S. Merwin); \u003cem\u003ePioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eButterfly\u003c\/em\u003e by Kashiwagi Mari. 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Bella Li brings the visual and the verbal into contact to challenge the boundaries of poetry and visual design.' \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSPN Book of the Year 2022 shortlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'There is beauty in the restraint of the design of \u003cem\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/em\u003e. Bella Li's sensitive use of colour has produced an elegant and intriguing book. This is a page-turner for any designer lucky enough to thumb their way through the pages. An accomplished designer at work.' \u003cstrong\u003eAustralian Book Design Awards 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Mesmerising and uncompromising, Bella Li’s \u003cem\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/em\u003e arrests readers with its strangeness. Through its collaging and arrangement of diverse textual and visual elements, Li’s book provides an extended meditation on the relationship between absence and presence, margin and centre, appearance and disappearance. This is a work of uncanny poetic framing, where the recombination of source materials — historic images, found texts, and Li’s own haunted words — generates a series of extraordinary and phantasmagorial new worlds.' \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-shortlisted-theory-colours\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-shortlisted-theory-colours\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'There is a cosmic, melancholy weight to this collection that I find unsettling. And yet, there is a gentle matter-of-factness to Li’s writing that simultaneously reassures; a reminder of life and presence, someone’s voice travelling to meet you.' Sarah Yeung in\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Westerly \u003c\/strong\u003e(\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/theory-of-colours\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/theory-of-colours\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eread more\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'In this dance between reading and writing, Li shows us that the illuminated gap of the poetic play is manifold: meanings, signs and associations are generated by author and reader alike. It is open to delighting us in the way that Barthes said a photograph was open to animating him: \"this is what creates every adventure\".' Isabella Gullifer-Laurie in \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/review\/contiguity\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/review\/contiguity\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eread more\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'With \u003cem\u003eTheory of Colours, \u003c\/em\u003eLi has levelled up the uncanny. Unnerving collages with gothic overtones give way to prose poems that are a tissue of references. The empty spaces of abandoned hotels and national parks, devoid of human life, create a sense of dislocation, and haunting. While nearly two years of lockdowns may or may not have shaped the artistic choices here, it is impossible not to associate these collages with the eerie, blank streets of our empty cities.' Joan Flemming in \u003cstrong\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.australianbookreview.com.au\/abr-online\/current-issue\/969-november-2021-no-437\/8522-joan-fleming-reviews-capacity-by-lk-holt-and-theory-of-colours-by-bella-li\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australianbookreview.com.au\/abr-online\/current-issue\/969-november-2021-no-437\/8522-joan-fleming-reviews-capacity-by-lk-holt-and-theory-of-colours-by-bella-li\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eread more\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In this dance between reading and writing, Li shows us that the illuminated gap of the poetic play is manifold: meanings, signs and associations are generated by author and reader alike. It is open to delighting us in the way that Barthes said a photograph was open to animating him: \"this is what creates every adventure\".' \u003cstrong\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/review\/contiguity\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/review\/contiguity\/\"\u003eread more\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVisit the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/culture\/poetry\/2021\/03\/06\/bella-li\/161494920011206\"\u003eSaturday Paper\u003c\/a\u003e for a recent interview with Bella Li by Maddee Clark about \u003cem\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/em\u003e and visit \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.liminalmag.com\/interviews\/bella-li\"\u003eLiminal Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e for Robert Wood's 2018 interview.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe colours recorded by the spectroscope are the inverse of the true colours, which float in the pupil after the eye has closed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/em\u003e takes as its title and point of departure the influential nineteenth-century treatise on colour by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In Li’s third full-length collection, colour — and its absence — is at once subject, structural principle and medium. Moving from the distant past, through the fleeting, unstable present, and into a series of speculative futures, the book elaborates worlds both familiar and strange — a country estate, a small town, a grand hotel, a tower. Informed by the spectral practices of early photography and cinema, as well as the visual and thematic conventions of ghost stories, westerns and science fiction, Li’s narratives of text and image are unsettling explorations of sequence and time, absence and haunting. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\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. 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\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\u003cp\u003eAuthor photo credit: Leah Jing McIntosh, 2018. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.liminalmag.com\/\"\u003eLiminal Magazine.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; display: inline !important; float: none;\" data-mce-style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; display: inline !important; float: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Li,\u003cem\u003e Theory of Colours\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 152mm x 228mm. 176pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-23-9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: August 2021 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback edition also \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\"\u003eavailable\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\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\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_small_rgb-54322b14eed17_480x480.png?v=1600310698\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39980769738909,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Li_TheoryOfColours_cover_8f63293d-141e-412e-8132-4a200f6a522e.jpg?v=1621547903"},{"product_id":"luke-fischer-a-gamble-for-my-daughter-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Luke Fischer, A Gamble for my Daughter (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Gamble for my Daughter \u003c\/em\u003etakes its title from the final poem in Luke Fischer’s third full-length collection, which addresses the dilemmas of raising a child in a world fraught with political unrest and environmental catastrophe. This contemporary situation is historically contextualised by other poems in the collection, including the five-part sequence ‘Orphic Elegy’ that opens the first section of the book. In its retelling and revision of myths about Orpheus, this poem sheds a unique light on the historical breakdown of a holistic vision of the universe in modernity and the resulting alienation of humanity from nature and the divine. Parts I and II reimagine ancient Orphism. Part III focuses on the integration of art and science in the Renaissance. Part IV centres on the twentieth century and addresses the question famously formulated by the philosopher Theodor Adorno about whether it is possible to write poetry after Auschwitz. Part V revises myths about Orpheus’s magical ability to charm animals (and his relationship to the dead), in connection with the mass extinction of animals that is currently taking place. The poems in the book’s second section speculate in a mythopoetic and embodied way on the possibilities of establishing new forms of interconnection between art and the environment, mind and nature. The third section addresses the human relationship to animals, the ecological crisis, and the violence of colonisation, and wrestles with questions about how to bring up a child in the face of the challenging future that she will inherit. This collection takes the synthesis of poetry and philosophy to a new level of sophistication, insight and empathy previously unseen in Australian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘“Why could your music \/ not turn the Maenads’ hearts?” Luke Fischer asks in an opening sequence which propels the Orpheus myth in fresh and newly-relevant directions. It’s a question which reverberates subtly beneath the remainder of the book: a second section in which abstract meditations acquire blood and bone; a third section in which poems of open-hearted love search for ways to maintain a child’s innocence and wonder. The Irish poet Eavan Boland came to regard poetry as “a forceful engagement between a life and language.” Luke Fischer’s A Gamble for my Daughter is just such an engagement. It is intellectually exciting, emotionally affecting, dense, yet simultaneously lucid and welcoming. It is naked, vulnerable poetry which seeks the timeless and urgent.’ Brook Emery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Very few poets in Australia possess such a width of erudition or so deep an engagement with a tradition of philosophical poetry reaching back through Rilke and Hölderlin to the Renaissance and the Pre-Socratics. And yet these are very human poems filled with the experiences of parenthood and holding closely to present experience, here in the time of climate crisis and ongoing ecological collapse.’ Peter Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘If there is a word that could encapsulate Luke Fischer’s poetic dwelling it is transparency. From his first collection Luke Fischer’s verses are prismatic eyes that see through the visible and the tangible establishing correspondences of symbolic equivalence the likes of which we see only in Paul Valery, Osip Mandelstam and Rainer Maria Rilke. The pure lyricism of his language liberates the aesthetic potential of his vision from the shackles of cliché and trivialities. The poet revives the visible reality into the pristine hierophany of its originary source: the radical and fragile imaginary of mortality.’ Professor Vrasidas Karalis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLuke Fischer is a prize-winning poet and philosopher. He has authored and co-edited seven books, including two poetry collections \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Personal History of Vision\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP, 2017) and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaths of Flight\u003c\/em\u003e (Black Pepper, 2013). Judith Beveridge speaks of his ‘seemingly effortless ability to blend visual detail and imaginative vision’ and Robert Gray considers him ‘outstanding among a new generation of Australian poets.’ His honours include the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize (winner), the Anne Elder Award (commended), Newcastle Poetry Prize (shortlisted several times), Red Room Poetry Fellowship (shortlisted), anthologised poems in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Best Australian Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (several times), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward-Winning Australian Writing,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContemporary Australian Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e and an international writers’ residency at the Château de Lavigny, Switzerland. Fischer is a leading scholar of Rilke’s poetry and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2015). He frequently collaborates with artists and musicians and has been an invited speaker at conferences and events at the International Literature Festival Berlin, Oxford University, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Johns Hopkins University (USA), Tübingen University (Germany), the MCA (Sydney), Poetry on the Move, and the Goethe-Institut. Fischer holds a PhD in philosophy and is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney. Follow Luke at www.lukefischer.net.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\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\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 112pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-38-3\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover image by Clara Fischer (aged two, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42572526485661,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Fischerfrontcover_348a3362-1d23-4bd0-8cd5-a0e0bd25e2ce.jpg?v=1657332509"},{"product_id":"emilie-collyer-do-you-have-anything-less-domestic-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Emilie Collyer, Do you have anything less domestic? (Limited edition hardback)","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;\" data-mce-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\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/news\/features\/10-underrated-books-in-2022-2594860\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/news\/features\/10-underrated-books-in-2022-2594860\/\"\u003eArts Hub\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\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\"\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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\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":42572531564701,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Collyer_frontcover_17c8a3eb-2543-4ace-8c36-2553476cd569.jpg?v=1657332655"},{"product_id":"misbah-wolf-carapace-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Misbah Wolf, Carapace (Limited edition hardback)","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. 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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\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\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":42572535922845,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Wolf_Carapace_FrontCover_3c67e0fe-96bb-46f4-8717-d55ba100691f.jpg?v=1657332739"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-ideas-of-travel-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Peter Boyle, Ideas of Travel (Limited edition hardback)","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\" title=\"Best new books to read in April 2022\" target=\"_blank\"\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\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\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":42572539527325,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Boyle_IdeasOfTravel_cover2_75a6443f-b210-48e0-b411-fe6889612ff1.jpg?v=1657332847"},{"product_id":"suzanne-verrall-one-day-i-will-go-there-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Suzanne Verrall, One Day I Will Go There (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWelcome to the city, like Adelaide but not Adelaide, with its office buildings, restaurants, cinemas. Big enough to boast a park where one may row a boat across a cement-bottomed lake, small enough to feel safe at night. The suburbs are nearby with their backyard gardens – fruit trees and veggie patches, the beach not much further. People go about their daily business: working, playing, having families, visiting the dentist, taking night classes, building boats in their basements. Cats and dogs are favoured pets. The circus comes to town. Equal parts realistic and unconventional, the 77 poems in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne Day I Will Go There \u003c\/em\u003eportray a world within touching distance of our own, where the familiar is made extraordinary and commonplace experiences resonate with metaphysics. A neighbour glimpsed leads to a realisation of loneliness, an unsatisfactory day at work becomes a celebration of parenthood. As these moments build so too does a vision of the modern urban world that is at once comic and heartbreaking, challenging and bittersweet. The collection is in three parts. Part 1 is an examination of childhood and family: joy and discovery, learning and play, ageing parents, familial role reversal, self-doubt and the burden of unrealised potential. In Part 2 the focus shifts to the practical difficulties and emotional hauntings we encounter throughout life: hidden agendas, human error, feelings of inadequacy; but also life’s possibilities and wonders. Part 3 centres around ideas of the sacred and our yearning to move beyond everyday trappings towards a more profound level of understanding and a greater appreciation of beauty. Singly, each poem is an imagistic microcosm, encapsulating in miniature an element of human life. Read together, they create a composite portrait of existential questioning and a playful reflection of the world in which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Suzanne's work is careful, understated, and insistent. This is a poet who has taken her time to decide what matters in her writing life and what she will resist. Reading this collection, I thought about how few books sound like this at the moment—how it's always the quiet person at the dinner party I most want to talk to.' Alice Allan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuzanne Verrall works for the Adelaide Plains Council library service. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Adelaide. She specialises in short form writing: poetry, microfiction and essays. Her writing has been published online and in print, nationally and internationally, including in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralian Poetry Journal, foam:e, Bluepepper, Friendly Street Poets, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Flash Frontier (NZ), The Interpreter’s House\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAtlas\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlice\u003c\/em\u003e (USA), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hawai`i Pacific Review\u003c\/em\u003e (USA) and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Southampton Review \u003c\/em\u003e(USA). In 2018 she collaborated with audiovisual artist Dani Burbrook to create \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeart Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e, an installation of text, sound and moving image which exhibited at the Prospect Gallery during June and July of that year. In 2017 she was a panellist in the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s and State Library’s Tangent Talks series, speaking about the life and work of author Patricia Highsmith. In 2016 she was a presenter at the Adelaide launch of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArcher Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, reading her essay 'Over the rainbow: The history of the PRIDE flag'. The audio production, by Dani Burbrook, of her noir flash fiction story 'The Big Sneeze' is a finalist in the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2021 Miller Audio Prize (USA), with winners to be announced early 2022. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne Day I Will Go There\u003c\/em\u003e is her first poetry collection.\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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuzanne Verrall, \u003cem\u003eOne Day I Will Go There\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-39-0\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover image © Daisy Noyes, 2020. \u003cem\u003eEscape\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/daisynoyes.com\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42572541657245,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Verrall_FrontCover_b9b802af-b978-4e1b-b3dd-6ce357937cea.jpg?v=1657332915"},{"product_id":"peter-skrzynecki-travelling-among-the-stars-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Peter Skrzynecki, Travelling Among the Stars (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Peter Skrzynecki’s \u003cem\u003eTravelling Among the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a book full of memories and their effects. In fact his poetry, since his third book, \u003cem\u003eImmigrant Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, has been located in memories of the past. These have often been deployed for their recording quality – the word “chronicle” in the title is significant here – and for their social relevance as part of the attempt to understand and celebrate the effects and achievements of post-war immigration from Europe. In a sense there is nothing new in \u003cem\u003eTravelling Among the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e but the importance of the book is that it shows us – or, at least, me – that Skrzynecki’s poetry is not a comfortable repetitive mining of a standard stock of memories but rather a poetic oeuvre built out of obsession: these are memories that don’t go away though they may derive from experiences more than half a century old.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eMartin Duwell in \u003cem\u003eAustralian Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.australianpoetryreview.com.au\/2022\/08\/marcelle-freiman-spirit-level-peter-skrzynecki\/\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.australianpoetryreview.com.au\/2022\/08\/marcelle-freiman-spirit-level-peter-skrzynecki\/\"\u003eRead more ...\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eTravelling Among the Stars \u003c\/em\u003eis a long way from the adventures of a young boy crossing the Red Sea with his parents and compatriots, but it is very much born out of, and threaded by that adventure. In this new collection Skrzynecki returns his reader to the all-important present. This older and wiser poet is circumspect about the time that has passed since that first journey from Naples and is significantly more skilled at negotiating silences than his four-year-old self. Almost as if in response to the men who bartered trust for silence on the voyage out of Naples, Skrzynecki now attempts to exchange silence for (more) time, for a glimpse at fading or forgotten memories, and for an opportunity to experience the incorporeal, primordial world that calls out to him. Here is a poet who has lived in all preparedness for the ‘impermanence of each day’ (‘Not Always but often Enough’); who has worked out his own salvation and readied his epitaph, seen in these lines from ‘Epitaph’:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eGermany, Australia –\u003cbr\u003e where to next?\u003cbr\u003e Soul and body, holding hands,\u003cbr\u003e travelling among the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe irony is that there is no ‘next’, and no past or future, only the \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e; all that is fleeting is but a sign of something else.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eReviewed by Helen Koukoutsis in Sydney Review of Books (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sydneyreviewofbooks.com\/review\/skrzynecki-travelling-among-the-stars\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/sydneyreviewofbooks.com\/review\/skrzynecki-travelling-among-the-stars\/\"\u003eRead more ...\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTravelling Among the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Australia’s best-known poets, Peter Skrzynecki, ranges across the course of his life, gathering recurrent images and memories, places and moments into a whole. The title of the collection is from ‘Epitaph’ the last poem, written in response to a moment of satori on the tarmac at Sydney airport. Skrzynecki’s poetry emerges from the natural world, from a lifetime moving back and forward across New England, the landscape inhabiting him as much as he inhabits it. These poems give the shape of a life looked back on, traces the cycle of seasons, the cycle of the years, the simple lived truths of growing up and growing old. The realization of the roles of parents in one’s life and the awareness of ageing in one’s own body run through the collection, and alongside them an acceptance for the impermanence of things. Family, nature, spirituality, the elements and seasons, and dreams co-mingle, pass by and return – culminating in acceptance and submission to a force beyond the tangible and visible, the light in the darkness before the first bird sings. From one of Australia’s best-known poets, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTravelling Among the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e offers a summation of a life lived devoted to poetry and bears witness to the impermanence at the heart of wonder and the simple daily awe of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Skrzynecki was born in 1945 in Germany and came to Australia in 1949. He has published twenty books of poetry and prose and won several awards including  the Captain Cook BiCentenary Award, the Grace Levin Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Short Story Award. In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the Polish government, and in 2002 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his contribution to multicultural literature. In 2018  he received the Gold Cross of Merit from the Polish president. \u003cem\u003eImmigrant Chronicle,\u003c\/em\u003e a book of poetry, was a set text for study on the New South Wales HSC syllabus for many years.  A memoir, The Sparrow Garden, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award and is now available as an E-book. \u003cem\u003eOld\/New World: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2007 and became a set text on the VCE syllabus in Victoria. He has edited two collections of contemporary Australian writing, including \u003cem\u003eJoseph’s Coat: An Anthology of Multicultural Writing in Australia\u003c\/em\u003e (1985). His collection of short stories, \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) was translated and published in Poland to enthusiastic reviews. 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He is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nPeter Skrzynecki, \u003cem\u003eTravelling Among the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 208pp.\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-35-2\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42572545818781,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Skrzynecki_cover_1f410fea-d856-474b-9ab1-cdf8b8013e4c.jpg?v=1657332976"},{"product_id":"emily-stewart-running-time-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Emily Stewart, Running Time (Limited edition hardback)","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\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 20 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\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":42572548210845,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Stewart-FrontCover_ef713895-f5d3-471c-b13b-2c42baad8aa2.jpg?v=1657333052"},{"product_id":"peter-ramm-waterlines-limited-edition-hardback","title":"Peter Ramm, waterlines (Limited edition hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWaterlines\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like a first collection. Which is not to say it isn’t fresh or exciting. Rather, that this is a poet at the height of their powers ... People who adore the great Australian poets Judith Beveridge or Gwen Harwood will love this collection.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Broede Carmody, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/culture\/books\/poems-that-make-you-think-about-today-s-world-and-tomorrow-s-bequest-20220603-p5aqzj.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSydney Morning Herald\/The Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe rainforest, winter blows past, my son.\u003cbr\u003eDark air, under the canopy, his big dark eyes— \u003cbr\u003eNew and touching everything.  \u003cbr\u003e            Red Cedar, behemoth, \u003cbr\u003eBlots out the sky and you dart over the boardwalks\u003cbr\u003eGumboots clapping rubato. 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