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Book cover for Ali Alizadeh: Eyes in Times of War

Eyes in Times of War

Ali Alizadeh
Paperback - $35.95

This collection of poems depicts an individual's perceptions and passions in times of war, and bears witness to the conflicts in the Middle East, 'the clash' between the West and Islam, and the ways in which a person's ideals, passions and language a ...

Book cover for Michele Amas: After the Dance

After the Dance

Michele Amas
Paperback - $26.95

Immersed in sparkling wit, wholehearted truthfulness, and good humor, this spellbinding collection of poems explores a mother's love for her teenage daughter, the joys and complications of family life, the lives of suburban grandparents, and the lovi ...

Book cover for Angela Andrews: Echolocation

Echolocation

Angela Andrews
Paperback - $24.95

Daily rhythms and family tales dominate this quietly impressive book of poems, which examines domestic life in order to reconfirm its virtues. Though the subject matter is uncompromisingly orthodox, with ruminations on having a baby in the home and a ...

Book cover for Louis Armand: Seances

Seances

Louis Armand
Paperback - $14.95

Composed between 1993 and 1997, Seances is the first full-length collection of poetry from Sydney-born Prague resident Louis Armand, who is the 1997 recipient of the Max Harris award for poetry. Armand currently teaches at Charles University in Pragu ...

Book cover for Airini Beautrais: Secret Heart

Secret Heart

Airini Beautrais
Paperback - $26.95

Sarcastic and ironic on the surface, this collection of autobiographical prose poems seems cynical and introspective at first, but its sharp-tongued sense of humor helps turn the poems outward, embracing society and creating a wry self-portrait of a ...

Book cover for Judith Bishop: Event

Event

Judith Bishop
Paperback - $33.95

"Event," the first book by Australian poet Judith Bishop, is the work of a border-crosser. Emotionally intense, formally inventive and musical, with influences ranging from Ted Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop to Yves Bonnefoy, these poems have won presti ...

Book cover for Michael Brennan: The Imageless World

The Imageless World

Michael Brennan
Paperback - $33.95

The letters Brennan has posted throughout "The Imageless World" work to create traces of worlds that exist only as languaged moments, or momentary presences, including the most intimate. Brilliant, devilish, harrowing, and profound, Brennan is writin ...

Book cover for Janet Charman: Cold Snack

Cold Snack

Janet Charman
Paperback - $24.95

A well-loved New Zealand poet returns to territory that will be familiar to all readers in this collection of verse that takes on the uncelebrated, even mundane aspects of everyday life: family, work, suburbia. The book is divided into three sections ...

Book cover for M. T. C. Cronin: Notebook of Signs

Notebook of Signs

M. T. C. Cronin
Paperback - $27.95

M.T.C. Cronin's last Shearsman collection 1-100, was awarded two major literary prizes in her native Australia and also brought her significant attention both in the UK and the USA. Her new collection is in fact four small books in one, four separate ...

Book cover for Elvira Davis: And I All Undressed

And I All Undressed

Elvira Davis
Paperback - $27.95

Sonnets, a pantoum and triolets are some of the forms of poetry in this collection that tell about lost love, war and the beauty of the sunrise. Some poems are powerful with a message for the reader; others are lyrical and gentle, caressing the reade ...

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