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Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882936ISBN 13: 9781920882938
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways, 'where silent graffiti haunts the/ midday breeze where spring/ rain cuts through the sun and/ a rottweiler sleeps outside the/ doors of the supermarket'. These Australian scenes are set against their various European counterparts, with rhapsodies on the Parisian banlieues during Advent and Lent, to a series of Venetian 'postcards', and list-poems set in Barcelona. The poems describe the suburban landscape in a remarkably clear way, finding grace in those parts of them that are often overlooked or derided. Lachlan Brown was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize and is a recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways. Brown is at Charles Sturt, Wagga Wagga. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2015
ISBN 10: 1922146889ISBN 13: 9781922146885
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch. Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Read the full article in the The New York Times. In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but in other ways a magical place 'beyond the imagination', populated by symbolic presences and scenes of ritual and commemoration. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2014
ISBN 10: 0992488613ISBN 13: 9780992488611
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Zara Hagopian is size 22. She has a secret crush on the hottest boy in school, Pablo Fernandez, who has a skinny girlfriend named Holly. Zara hangs out with her best friends Carmelina and Max. They go window shopping in Parramatta and drink hot chocolate in Stockland Mall. Zara learns some of life's hard lessons when she puts these friendships on the line and goes on a diet to win the boy of her dreams.Tamar Chnorhokian is a vital new voice from Western Sydney. Her first novel speaks to young Australians with double servings of humour and heart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2023
ISBN 10: 1922725463ISBN 13: 9781922725462
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves experiences of imprisonment, violence and misrecognition, of disempowerment and underprivilege.Pip Adams uncategorisable new novel, part science fiction, part social realism, asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room about how we imagine new forms of justice, and how we transcend the bodies and selves we are given.Pip Adam is one of my favourite authors and Audition is my new favourite book. Hurtling through space and time with three giants who immediately gripped my heart is the place I want to be in literature. A powerful work of social commentary, a bodily exploration and a feat of imagination, all written with Adams trademark poise: this is the genre-bending book of the year. Laura Jean McKayUncanny and astoundingin parts sci-fi, absurdist, fabulist, social realistreaders may find themselves equal parts unmoored and floored by this thrilling novel. I havent stopped thinking about it. Deborah Crabtree, Books+PublishingA blend of space opera and social realism, [Audition] is a fine example of Pip Adams ingenuity and imagination. Angelique Kasmara, Aotearoa New Zealand Review of BooksAudacious, inventive and radicalA fearsome intellect underpins Pips work, and Audition is threaded with astute psychological insights, but there is also absurdism and humour, erotica and brain candy, and pop culture references aplenty. Sarah Laing, Newsroom'Her work is daring, clever, and imaginatively dazzling, but none of those back-cover words seem to fit; they are too shallow, too performative, for Adams project, which is really and here, perhaps, most pronouncedly about justice.' Jennifer Mills, Australian Book Review'Every now and then, you are lucky enough to come across a book so inventive, so thrillingly odd, that you struggle to stop thinking about it. Audition did that for me.' Sian Cain, the Guardian'The pure imagination and craft that have gone into producing this work are truly awe-inspiring.' Seth Robinson, Kill Your Darlings'Extraordinary, genre-defyingAdam expertly and surreally explores colonisation, power structures, free will and the consequences of taking up too much space. This is an astonishing novel by a brave and inventive author.' Danielle Bagnato, The Big Issue Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co., Artarmon Nsw, 2003
ISBN 10: 0957831188ISBN 13: 9780957831186
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A nice, clean copy. ; B&W Illustrations and photographs; 9.20 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 447 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2011
ISBN 10: 192088274XISBN 13: 9781920882747
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir is Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. It is peppered with irreverent anecdotes and details their publication of the best-selling manual All About Grass, the purchase of decommissioned panel vans for 'urgent book deliveries', accounts of long and boozy book launches and with vivid portraits of some of the most important literary figures of the time. Novelist and critic Michael Wilding's rollicking account of the heady bohemian days in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the decline of an innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882839ISBN 13: 9781920882839
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Weinberger's essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction. No field of human knowledge is too remote, no fact too fanciful for his purpose, which is to lay before you the world of these animals and the minds of the humans who imagine them. Weinberger's previous collection An Elemental Thing was named by Village Voice one of the '20 Best Books of the Year' and his book What I Heard About Iraq is regarded as an antiwar classic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 192088288XISBN 13: 9781920882884
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Evelyn Juers's study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens's character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. It was said that she had been jilted at the altar and become a recluse, wearing her wedding dress and keeping her wedding banquet set until the day she died. But who was she? The Recluse is the story of Juers' quest to find the elusive Eliza Donnithorne, who was born in South Africa, and lived in India, England and Australia. Like House of Exile it features a cast of colourful historical characters, authors, convicts, sailors and servants, journalists and bloggers, and makes a powerful case for solitude as a dignified way of life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882952ISBN 13: 9781920882952
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Street to Street is one of Brian Castro's best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at the age of sixty-one. Castro's double portrait of the poet and his biographer, the writer-academic Brendan Costa, plays on the disappointment, the guilt, the lack of recognition, which troubles those who live by their imaginations. The novella is the perfect form for Castro's purpose, its compression heightening the wit and energy of his prose, and his remarkable feel for the embarrassments of character.Street to Street has been long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146323ISBN 13: 9781922146328
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the 1990s, when music was recorded on cassettes and movies on VHS, Vanessa Berry was reacting to the loneliness of life in the suburbs by constructing imaginary worlds and identities from video hits, late-night music programs, band t-shirts, mixtapes and zines, and the 'dark energy' of the Goths. A memoir in essay form, Ninety9 is about the loneliness of adolescence, the importance of friendship, and the magical enclaves to be discovered in the city. Illustrated with the author's drawings and photos, it provides a guide to the end of the millennium for those who were too young to be there, and vivid memories for those who were.Click this link to see the interview Vanessa Berry did on FBI. And here are some reviews from people who loved the book: The Thousands, Birdee, Word Press"Ninety9 maps a lost world of Sydney's inner-west and inner-city, tracing a route of record stores, clubs, all-ages gigs and t-shirt shops, places that had just about disappeared 20 years later.Berry's memoir is alive with humour and pathos too." - The Australian Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146455ISBN 13: 9781922146458
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDALFora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and stories whichtells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-consciousbut determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorcedfamily, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbbos, Greek, Serbs,Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman andKerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has aninvisible friend called Tom. His neighbour Wessam tells him he should write abook called How to Be Gay and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity."An Elegant Young Man is street poetry for contemporary Sydney, and it demonstrates what is most exciting and innovative in Australia's emerging writers." - Sydney Morning Herald reviewWinner of the UTS Glenda Adams award for new writing at the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2014
ISBN 10: 1922146560ISBN 13: 9781922146564
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portrayinglife in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by oneof its youngest members. The first novella describes the family house in theSydney suburb of Alexandria, and the three generations who live, often in somediscord, in its rooms; the second details the marriage of a cousin, and thethreatened appearance of an estranged branch of the family at the ceremony; thethird rounds off the cycle with the death of the family matriarch, the boy'sgrandmother. Together they offer an intimate insight into a communitynegotiating the conflict between tradition and modernity, and the complextribal affiliations of the extended family. The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portraying life in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by one of its youngest members. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2016
ISBN 10: 192533600XISBN 13: 9781925336009
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Setin modern-day Mexico City, See You at Breakfast is the story of four characters, leading lives of quietdesperation, who are thrown together by a despicably violent act. Cristina isan optimistic prostitute managing work, police harassment and the demands ofthe men who fall in love with her such as Ulises, a solitary office workerwho obsesses over a promotion he will never receive. His longtime friendAdolfo, a part-trained veterinarian incapable of distinguishing between a dogand a coyote, is in turn consumed by his infatuation with his neighbour, thebeautiful and sheltered Olivia. She is the daughter of Jehovah's Witnesses, andleads a life of hermit-like seclusion, utterly oblivious to his persistentvoyeurism.AsUlises and Cristina's relationship moves from finance to romance, and Adolfoworks to make his fantasies of life with Olivia a reality, each seeks thecomfort of normality amid the chaos of the city's corruption and crime, and theseeming impossibility of maintaining a trusting relationship. Witty, dark andmoving, See You at Breakfast offersa refreshingly frank take on gender politics, the nature of attraction and theburden of everyday life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146366ISBN 13: 9781922146366
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult FictionMichael's older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests The Incredible Here and Now is a tale of wonder, not of tragedy. Presented as a series of vignettes, in the tradition of Sandra Cisneros' Young Adult classic The House on Mango Street, it tells of Michael's coming of age in a year which brings him grief and romance; and of the place he lives in Western Sydney where 'those who don't know any better drive through the neighbourhood and lock their car doors', and those who do, flourish in its mix of cultures. Through his perceptions, the reader becomes familiar with Michael's community and its surroundings, the unsettled life of his family, the girl he meets at the local pool, the friends that gather in the McDonalds parking lot at night, the white Pontiac Trans Am that lights up his life like a magical talisman. Teacher's resources can be found here: Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882871ISBN 13: 9781920882877
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Chi Vu takes the central figure in a traditional Buddhist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims' fingers in a garland around his neck, and turns him into a menacing abbatoir worker who carries bloody chunks of meat home to his lodgings in plastic bags, in this suburban Gothic tale set in 1980s Melbourne, when the flight of Vietnamese refugees to Australia was at its height. The novella gives a compelling insight into the relations formed between refugees who have been displaced from their families or their communities, and lead isolated lives haunted by suspicion and fear. At the same time the novella's macabre humour and surreal effects point to redemptive possibilities, in demonstrating how these old fears are played out and resolved in their new settings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2018
ISBN 10: 192533662XISBN 13: 9781925336627
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New collection from award-winning poet John MateerIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joao, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubledby dreams and memories, Joao is also an innocent, and given to moments ofillumination and joy. Mateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatmentof this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrativewhich is new in Australian writing, the worldwide adventures of the poet as anti-hero, one who, despite his disappointments, still believes in the power of literatureto create a sense of belonging, and to invoke 'the deep mandala of meeting andfriendship'. 'JohnMateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is fascinated bycross-cultural historical currents and transformationshis poems frequentlyregister how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint orinflect much that we know.' SydneyReview of Books Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2018
ISBN 10: 1925336638ISBN 13: 9781925336634
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to thecolony's independence, Saudade focuseson a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and theirdependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title (saudade means 'melancholy' inPortuguese) speaks to the longing for homeland that haunts its characters, andespecially the young girl who is the book's protagonist and narrator. SuneetaPeres da Costa's novella captures with intense lyricism the difficultrelationship between the daughter and her mother, and the ways in which theirintimate world opens up questions about domestic violence, the legacies of Portugueseslavery, and the end of empire. The young woman's intellectual awakening unfoldsinto a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism, and the violent political rupturesthat ultimately lead to her father's death, and their exile. '[Her] voice is unique: neither childlike nor grownup, but insteadby turns gravely articulate, wildly poetic, and hilariously originala hauntingand magical vision of childhood.' AustinChronicle Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2019
ISBN 10: 1925336999ISBN 13: 9781925336993
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant whohas lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop whilemaintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When hebecomes infatuated with a young international student who lodges in theirhouse, and puts his life savings behind a scheme to export powdered milk toChina, the dubious balance with which he has held his life together comes apart,and feelings of alienation and humiliation begin to spiral out of control.Dry Milkis a work of fiction that gives a perspective on Antipodean culture unlike anyother, told from the point of view of an immigrant alienated from his new home,both its New Zealand and Chinese communities. Huo's novella is a stark portraitof social isolation, and of the experience of the emigrants that left China inthe period after the Cultural Revolution. Capturing the voice of China's post-1980sliterary generation, the book is written with an obsessive intensity thatechoes Patricia Highsmith, Elias Canetti and the short novels of ElenaFerrante. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925818772ISBN 13: 9781925818772
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell, she says. Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die. She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they dont actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigles novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.'Written in a fragmentary form reminiscent of Renata Adler, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McCunningles deadpan fiction debut, documents an unnamed young protagonists listless existence in an unnamed city. The books droll dispatches from daily life under late capitalism recall the writing of the authors New Zealand contemporaries Hera Lindsay Bird and Eamonn Marra, but Butcher-McCunnigles distinctive voice is her own. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life is a grimly funny rendering of the absurdity of life in the 2020san era in which, with nowhere to turn, the hopeless millennial turns in on herself.' Kelsey Oldham, Books+PublishingPraise for Autobiography of a Marguerite:Workbook for surviving illness, guide to familial dysfunction and an intersection between fact and fictionone of the most innovative New Zealand books published in recent years. Booknotes Books of the YearThe writing goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repairButcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards. takahe magazine Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2007
ISBN 10: 1920882332ISBN 13: 9781920882334
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Award winning poetry from one of Australia's most gifted writers. A must for all good bookstores. Beveridge's poetry is remarkable for its attentiveness to the humble rituals of life. It discovers richness and grace in the smallest, the poorest, the most awkward of the most transient of beings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2008
ISBN 10: 1920882464ISBN 13: 9781920882464
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. These poems question notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real. These poems question notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2011
ISBN 10: 1920882588ISBN 13: 9781920882587
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as 'southern barbarians'. In his new collection John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the Portuguese Empire. This empire is a fugitive one, notable for its saudade, its awareness of loss, its yearning for a world that appears only intermittently in this one, as an echo, a trace, a memory. At its heart is the figure of the poet, as migrant, tourist, desterrado. His identity is inhabited by other identities, just as the place he is in reminds him of other places. Haunted by doubles and reflections, accompanied by 'spirit guides' who pass between this world and the other, he is both ghostly and connected wherever he goes, and connected precisely because of his ghostliness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2011
ISBN 10: 1920882634ISBN 13: 9781920882631
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poems in amphora seize on the miraculous moments contained in life and language, interrogating them with scepticism on the one hand, celebrating them with a comic sense of wonder on the other. The collection's focus ranges from the magical exploits of saints recalled from the poet's Catholic childhood, to her variations on the Zen koan, to the accidental 'out of the blue' poems in the final sequence. Burns draws attitudes which define a way of living gladness, openness, curiosity, acceptance, and above all sensual delight, in the abundance of the world's offerings, and in the possibilities of language: 'may the polysemic flower bloom'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882812ISBN 13: 9781920882815
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here, There and Elsewhere, is Vivian Smith's first new collection in five years, and his most personal book. The poems draw on memories of life in Hobart and Sydney, travels in Europe and South America, old friends and respected writers, offering quiet lessons for the present, 'searching for the sense of what is real/ the truth of what I am and what I feel'. There is a sequence on the Ern Malley affair, told from the point of view of the poet, who just wants to be left alone; and two autobiographical essays, on the exhibition of French paintings shipwrecked off the Tasmanian coast in 1952, and on the three houses of Pablo Neruda, both of which are poetic testaments. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882847ISBN 13: 9781920882846
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Michael Farrell is well known for his ability to break language and action into their component gestures, freeing the emotion locked up in them, and very often their comic or magical aspects too, as the title of his new poetry collection suggests. Open Sesame includes sonnets derived from the TV drama 'The Bill', a sestina featuring JFK set in a laundrette, an improvised parody which cuts up writing found on supermarket shelves, collage poems including one on Phar Lap, four long poems on the theme of friendship, and 'luke and henrys storyline', the story of a commitment ceremony between two gay men. In an earlier form, the manuscript of this collection won the inaugural Barrett Reid Poetry Prize for experimental poetry, and was praised by the judges for its playfulness, craft and 'subliminal force.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146277ISBN 13: 9781922146274
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms.It is a baroque collection, playing with notions of inward and outward space, constructing its intricate perspectives with a restrained delicacy. The title sequence, 'Hotel Hyperion', is set in the future, in a space hotel where a collector gathers artefacts for a museum recording the history of space settlement. It also recalls Keats' great poem, 'The Fall of Hyperion'. Lisa Gorton's first collection Press Release (also published by Giramondo) won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry; she is the author of Cloudland, a novel for children, and an essayist and reviewer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882898ISBN 13: 9781920882891
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Michael Brennan's third collection of poetry tunes into the feedback loops of consciousness in these fluid modern times. It develops the surrealism of his earlier poetry with an anarchic openness to experience underwritten by anxiety, dysfunction and the endless hunger for community. Set in a radically changed but recognizable Australia, one that has evolved through the collapse of the West and the rise of Asia, Autoethnographic jaunts into late capitalism, following six characters who struggle to imagine their place in this brave new world. Around them swirls a carnival of bonobo cultists, scheming hoodlums, free market geneticists, economic terrorists, grieving families, loners and malingerers, lovers and survivors in a fascinating and disorienting mix of elegy, antipoetry and posthuman punk.Autoethnographic has won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2012
ISBN 10: 1920882944ISBN 13: 9781920882945
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Alan Wearne is this country's most public poet, a master of the Australian idiom, the recorder of its fashions, and the scourge of its big-noters, pretenders and crooks. They are the targets of the central poem in this collection, 'The Vanity of Australian Wishes', which draws on Samuel Johnson and Juvenal, 'who must have known that combination of bemusement, annoyance, anger and despair to which your country can drive you, though always with an eye to its entertainment value and dramatic potential'. There is an affectionate portrait of three high school teachers in suburban Melbourne in the early 1960s, satires on the world of finance, the lifestyles of the beautiful people, and literary intellectuals, as well as seven new poems based on Australian pop songs, with Johnny O'Keefe and Shane Warne in starring roles. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146404ISBN 13: 9781922146403
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New Works on Paper is remarkable for its surreal logic and imagery. Things as familiar as bread and pencils or as strangely menacing as Serena Williams' earring or Keira Knightly's jaw clash with the unrelenting forces of time, desire, and the natural world. The poems are witty and erotic in their wild energy, surprising, edgy and angular in their shifting perspectives, full of startling disjunctions and mirrorings, and always acutely aware of their own craft."Luke Beesley's collection of poems New Works on Paper . maps cityscapes, scraping through Melbourne's inner-city (Northcote) and Sydney's Bondi. His words often take you on surreal paths of flight, shaping into strange and self-referential swirls, leaving you disoriented but transformed." - The Australian Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Giramondo Publishing Co, Artarmon, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922146501ISBN 13: 9781922146502
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. JohnMateer's previous poetry book SouthernBarbarians traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the IndianOcean it was shortlisted for the PM's Award for Poetry and the NSW andVictorian Premiers' Literary Awards. Unbelievers,or The Moor takes this exploration one step further, to recover its Arabicand Islamic origins in Al-Andalus, the Moorish state which occupied much ofpresent-day Spain and Portugal from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Aseat of learning and culture, which combined Muslim, Christian and Jewishinfluences, it provides a model for Mateer's own mixed background as a SouthAfrican Australian, and for his nomadic identity as a poet. The collection ismuch concerned with influential but invisible histories; with the poem as amoment of connection between languages and cultures, so that it seems alreadyto exist in translation; with doubles and hauntings, friends in far places, andabove all, what Mateer calls 'the irony of Elsewhere'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.