Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine by Oksana Maksymchuk (Editor); Max Rosochinsky (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Ukrainian Studies
The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, disloc ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
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Category: Poetry
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
You Do You by Sam Morley
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Category: Poetry
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
blackbirds don't mate with starlings by Janaka Malwatta
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Category: Poetry
This is a work of activism, fury and hope. Its urgent and purposeful poems contribute to the dismantling of racism, raging against its machinery. It combines performance poetry with poetries of witness and memory, recounting personal experiences of racism as well as historic injustices.The coherence of ...Show more
the body country by Susie Anderson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'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 the power of a land that can offer connection. A meditation of wandering and wondering on Country, inviting the reader to understa ...Show more
The Drama Student by Autumn Royal
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Category: Poetry
Intense, dramatic, theatrical — an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning. As its title suggests, the poems in Autumn Royal’s The Drama Student explore theatrical responses to life. And in particular, the staging of the emotional life. ...Show more