Homeland Calling - Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media; Ellen van Neerven (Editor)

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough t to you by Desert Pea Media. These verses are the result of young artists exploring their place in the world and expressing the future they want to live in. Organised into four sections, 'Country is my heartbeat', 'History is in my bloodline', 'Flame in the struggle' and 'Pride in my people', the words of these deadly, young poets offer wider Australia a rare insight into their thoughts, hopes and dreams. At the back of the book, you'll find a notes section written by Ellen that addresses many of the basic misconceptions regarding First Nations histories and peoples. There's also a glossary of words used in the poems that demonstrate the diversity of languages spoken across this country. ...Show more

Living on Stolen Land by Kwaymullina, Ambelin

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land is a verse-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a highly original way. It pulls apart the myths at the heart of our nationhood, and challenges Australia to come to terms with its own past and its place within and on ‘Indigenous Countries’. This title speaks to many First Nations’ truths — stolen lands, sovereignties, time, decolonisation, First Nations perspectives, systemic bias and other constructs that inform our present discussions and ever-expanding understanding. This title is a timely, thought-provoking and accessible read. ...Show more

Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker

$29.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Sam Wagan Watson, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Archie Roach and Alexis Wright. Divided into five thematic sections, each one is introduced by an essay from a leading Aboriginal writer and thinker - Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chelsea Bond, Evelyn Araluen and Steven Oliver - who reflects on the power of First Nations poetry with their own original contribution. This incredible book is a testament to the renaissance of First Nations poetry happening in Australia right now. ...Show more

Unusual Work by Collective Effort

$10.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven

$24.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

I also saw those spirit dogs and poetry travelled with me like rivers I didn't ever eat alone 'Goan Fish Curry' Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places an d cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love. Using food as her inspiration, van Neerven offers a cross-cultural vision of the exotic and the familiar. This sensuous volume sets a new benchmark in contemporary Australian poetry. ...Show more

Rupi Kaur Boxed Set (Milk, Honey, Sun, Flowers) by Rupi Kaur

$55.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, rupi kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers.   Global sensation and internationally renowned author - rupi kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the mo dern woman. In strikingly personal, yet widely relatable poems accompanied by original illustrations, kaur challenges the idea that women should be quiet, gentle, and submissive and instead encourages women to be strong, powerful, and proud. Each of the four chapters ("the hurting," "the loving," "the breaking," and "the healing") serves a different purpose and explores the many kinds of pain and healing of life's experiences. From breakups to trauma, kaur leads readers through life's most bitter moments to find their hidden sweetness.   Paired with milk and honey in this exquisite boxed set: the sun and her flowers, a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated in kaur's signature style, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. ...Show more

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.

Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t : The Amazing Power of Poetry to Make Even the Most F**ked Up Times Feel Better by author

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTER A beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better. From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Kate Tempest, poets have always been the best at showin g us we're not alone, however sh*t things might seem. Funny, reflective, romantic and life-affirming - here is an anthology of poems to remind you to keep on looking at the stars: from that first 'what the f*ck' moment to empowering you to do something about this sh*t and ultimately realising that life is still beautiful after all. Rediscover old favourites and find some new treasures - you might be surprised just how much poetry can help. For fans of The Poetry Pharmacy, The Reading Cure and The Emergency Poet. ...Show more

Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright

$24.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance, and they share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our everyday world, and hold us in thrall, in highly charged moments of emotional extremity. Anxiety lurks in domestic spaces, it inhabits the most ordinary objects, like a drill bit or a phone charger, it draws our attention to the bruised body and its projecting parts. The elements of language take on new intensity in a series of 'overheard' poems fraught with their speakers' vulnerability and their attempts at resolution. Wright walks us through the places where this drama unfolds, in shopping centres, cafes, hospitals and bedrooms, in the inner-city suburbs of Sydney where the poet now lives, and the south-west where she grew up, presenting them as sites of love as well as sadness, and succour and strength as well as unease. ...Show more

Knuckled by Fiona Wright

$24.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

This is a first collection of poetry by award-winning young Sydney poet, poetry activist and editor Fiona Wright. As the title suggests, the poems in Knuckled are themselves bony and assertive, stripped down to the essential details, which appeal in their physical quality and the manner in which they ar e offered, as much as in their compression of feeling. ...Show more

Lemons In The Chicken Wire by Alison Whittaker

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a collage of work that reflects rural identity through a rich medley of techniques an d forms. It is an audacious, lyrical and linguistically lemon flavored poetry debut that possesses a rare edginess and seeks to challenge our imagination beyond the ordinary. Alison Whittaker demonstrates that borders, whether physical or imagined, are no match for our capacity for love. ...Show more

Turbulence by Thuy On

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal and confessional, taken from the authors own life, these poems speak to anyone who’s ever loved and lost.  Filled with short sharp burst of emotion , this stunning debut seeks to untangle the messiness of human relationships. ...Show more