36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
The Rocks Remain: Blak poetry and story
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Like rocks, we are shaped by forces over time. Despite being eroded, fractured, immersed, put under pressure - The Rocks Remain. Always was, always will be. Through poetry and prose, twenty-five Aboriginal writers share narratives that embody: strength of family and community; love found and lost; endur ...Show more
Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and tim ...Show more
Ekho by Roslyn Orlando
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Orlando restores the Ekh into a dynamic poetic voice. Ekho is a poem in three parts. Through poetic narrative, this work considers the 'echo' as a social and historical phenomenon. From Echo, the nymph of Greek mythology who's voice was stolen by th ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Poems That Do Not Sleep / قصائد لا ينام (Arabic/English) by Hassan al Nawwab
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, 'Tree Flyin ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
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