Australian & Oceanian

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literature Awards. Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957574793Author Paul SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807616222Author Robert GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600009Author Judith BeveridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702259791Author Cheryl TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702237690Author Thomas ShapcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702249358Author Nicholas PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522483Author Sue WoottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531922Author Elizabeth MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531687Author Emma NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322659Author Alan RoddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 184g

Sarah Broom's poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native New Zealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender and indifferent, it is the context within which other terrains are explored: heightened states of awareness, the physical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578717Author Cilla McqueenFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578632Author Owen MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578038Author Cilla McQueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578021Author David EggletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 158g

Believing, as Ezra Pound did, that real emotion is all that endures, Robert Gray has avoided 'magic realism', whismy, irony and mannered tone in his poetry. Instead, his style is classically direct, clear and concrete, demonstrating an Augustan...

Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, 'she looked inwards into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522988Author Liz BreslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528812Author Les A MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 141g

Known for a poetry both experimental, "activist" and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family's life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt and his deeply felt ecological concerns in this new cycle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921696602Author Andrew LansdownFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761092220Author Malcolm McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Ginninderra PressPublisher Ginninderra PressWeight(grams) 132g

In these exquisite, delicate, succinct poems Susanna Enso Huang shines a light on the natural world with precision and wonder. Her writing draws on traditions of Chinese poetry, presenting a world where Sun, Moon and Wind are alive and interacting...

Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Leia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756987Author Hawthorne SusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 60g

In this daring new collection, Australia's preeminent environmental poet confronts the legacy of Thoreau's Walden. With Walden as his inspiration, John Kinsella moved with his family back to rural Australia, where he wrote the poems in this original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780995113596Author Paula GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Massey University...

The Braziller Series of Australia Poets continues with the acclaimed poet Bronwyn Lea, deemed "the brightest light to emerge in Australian poetry" in many years (Geoffrey Lehmann, Weekend Australian). Lea's work is a brilliant mapping of the...

This new title in the Braziller Series of Australian Poets features a poet whose work has been instrumental to the evolution of Australian poetry. By turns philosophical, comic, elegiac and witty, Wallace-Crabbe has forged an utterly unique voice in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781875559206Author Deborah StainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 186g

An intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this book takes the reader on a journey through the history of languages and symbolic traditions. Through a main character, Queenie, a cow of many abilities and a history that takes in the creation of the...

The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. Susan Hawthorne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756512Author Sandy JeffsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 137g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756505Author Patricia SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 124g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648834373Author Shane StrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756956Author Patricia SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525385Author Les MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is Australia's great lyric poet and Collected Poems (1934), dedicated to Louise Dyer, bears his imprimatur. Encouraged by his editor, Robert Croll, Neilson was totally involved in its publication and promotion, selecting the...