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Taller When Prone
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragments of conversations, memories and satire comprise this varied, habitable world. In Murray's vigorous... more...
Mappings of the Plane: New Selected Poems
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2009; US$ 29.95Glittering with inventive wit and subversive humor, this evocative collection of poetry explores themes of yearning and loss. The reflections range in scope from Mozart to the Tasmanian landscape and from geese to heavyhearted love. The poet’s many pseudonyms are fresh identities that come together in this comprehensive oeuvre of one of Australia’s... more...
Selected Poems: James K. Baxter
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2010; US$ 23.95Divided into four stages to reflect the development of James K. Baxter’s work from the 1940s to 1972, this innovative assortment combines the poet’s widely known poems with more unusual and previously unpublished works. Placing these works in the context of global poetic developments during the mid-20th century, the collection showcases... more...
This Piece of Earth
Awa Press 2005; US$ 12.99In this captivating autobiography, the author magically weaves the story of his life?from a Banks Peninsula boyhood to the Executive Wing of Parliament?with the seasons of his Wellington garden and mouth-watering recipes from his kitchen. more...
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 24.99He was wearing a pair of leather pants that clung like terrified orphans to his muscular thighs, and a revealing black mesh t-shirt. The outfit seemed at odds with the cream-coloured settee and floral print curtains. From stalking and eventually meeting her Young Talent Time idol when she was twelve, to a particularly abhorrent encounter at a high-quality... more...
Crow Country
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 9.99From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you. Sadie isn't thrilled... more...
Between Two Windows
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51In Between Two Windows, his first book of poems, Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas, sonnets and pantoums stray palindromes, mirrored poems, anagrams, allusions and curiosities. His lyrics and satires dance in the spaces that open up between intention and expression,... more...
Reading by Numbers
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 99.00Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history. more...
Holocaust Island
University of Queensland Press 1900; US$ 12.99Graeme Dixon's ballads speak out on comtemporary and controversial issues, from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers. more...
Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
University of Queensland Press 1999; US$ 12.99In language soulful, image-charged, and often humorous, relationships of the heart are recounted against an industrial cityscape. more...









