Australian & Oceanian

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)...

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 9780374528812Author Les A MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

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...

Wendy Lawson's well-known poetry reflects the many aspects of a life lived with Asperger's Syndrome. In this illustrated collection of poems and short prose pieces, including some from her childhood and teenage years, Wendy engages with her past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925163285Author Dennis HaskellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 128gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781869407322Author Marsh Selina TusitalaFormat...

Gig Ryan's edgy, excoriating poetry takes the pulse of urban Australia, but her territory is as much the human rat-race and the hell of contemporary life as the particular lives she seizes upon with icy, ironic precision. Her range of reference brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645925906Author Alice BleathmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Turtle PublishingPublisher Turtle PublishingWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535414Author Les MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Better Than God sees Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789821013864Author Yogesh ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Andrews McNeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McNeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925736489Author Barbara KamlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Hybrid PublishersPublisher Hybrid PublishersWeight(grams) 219gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry,...

Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet,has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his landscapes (including Antarctica) and his language. He was New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780666Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 720g

When Peter Porter died in 2010 his reputation as one of the greatest Australian poets had long been settled. Chorale at the Crossing gathers together the work Porter completed after the publication of his widely-praised final collection Better than God,...

Acclaimed Instagram poet F.D. Soul (@featherdownsoul) debuts a new poetry collection,telling her own invigorating, unapologetic narrative of love, loss, and adversity. Soul's words pulse, they are alive on the page, attesting to the significance of...

Fast Talking PI reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections,...

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.Conjuring vivid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646815503Author Gareth EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Gareth EganPublisher Gareth EganWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646843049Author Miller McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Alwaysbe AflowerPublisher Alwaysbe AflowerWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645432657Author Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Roseyravelston BooksPublisher Roseyravelston BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780253Author Geoff PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and Wattmann

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIZE FOR POETRY, 2024 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS'I keep looking at the stars to see the universe, but the joke is I am the universe.' the body country is an evocative exploration of a world that too often marginalises and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645651331Author Kerry GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From rising Australian poet Chloe Frayne comes her newest poetry collection, The Gravity Inside Us.Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hope, long-distance relationships, healing, and adventure, Frayne invites readers into her world. The Gravity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761095283Author Graham WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Ginninderra PressPublisher Ginninderra PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925707625Author Adrian CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Sid Harta PublishersPublisher Sid Harta PublishersWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648991915Author Karen L RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Karen RichardsPublisher Karen RichardsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743057025Author Kate LlewellynFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield PressWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702262913Author Ellen van NeervenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland...

The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners. Sentenced in 1832 to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645180886Author Denise O'HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646829166Author Dianne Phillips-ZitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Dphillips-ZitoPublisher Dphillips-ZitoWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600023Author Philip HodginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780702263378Author Sarah Holland-BattFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland...

With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which...