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Playdead Press Spiral
Book SynopsisA bedsit. A young woman in trouble. A park. A missing teenager - and parents searching for answers. Struggling to cope with the disappearance of their teenage daughter, Tom and Gill''s marriage is left in tatters. In an attempt to numb his pain, Tom makes a decision that has an irrecoverable and unexpected impact on their lives and the lives of those closest to them.Spiral explores the human need to cling to another person, no matter what the cost. What happens when trust breaks down? Can other people save us? Or must we save ourselves?
£9.49
Playdead Press Supernova
Book SynopsisAward-nominated, sharp, funny play about falling in love with someone whilst you''re falling out of love with yourself. Do you have a favourite planet?'' A girl, a boy, and an unhealthy obsession with space. Supernova is a sharp, funny play about falling in love with someone whilst youre falling out of love with yourself. On paper Tess and Harry are perfect for each other: they both try too hard at fancy dress, have prepared escape plans for the apocalypse, and would happily stay in together for 3 days straight eating take-out and watching Star Wars. But as astrophysicists and your friends would tell you the brighter it burns, the darker the collapse. Supernova is the debut play from multi award winning writer and performer Rhiannon Neads (Funny Women Comedy Writing Award Runner Up 2017). She is one half of musical comedy duo Stiff & Kitsch (Musical Comedy Award winners 2018, as heard on The Now Show, BBC Radio 4).
£9.49
Playdead Press Gangsta Baby
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Playdead Press Sarah Quand MÃme
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£9.49
Shoestring Press Dog Days
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Opus 1: Then and Now
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£999.99
Shoestring Press On Balance
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£9.31
Shoestring Press Balloons and Stripey Trousers
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£999.99
Shoestring Press The Point of the Stick
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£9.68
Empire Publications OffBeat Spark
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£13.46
Little Peak Press A Path of Shadows
Book SynopsisA Path of Shadows is writer and mountaineer John Porter's first poetry collection. Exploring the natural world, family ties and physical science as well his climbing life, A Path of Shadows is a reflection of Porter's sharp and broad intellect, and of his desire and ability to express his feelings, beliefs and life experiences through poetry
£15.19
Little Peak Press British Mountaineers
Book SynopsisWritten in 1942, F. S. Smythe’s British Mountaineers recounts the history of a sport to tell the story of the brave, the triumphant and the tragic. Using the process of erasure, Faye Latham reshapes Smythe’s text into a unique, dream-like tale told from the perspective of an avalanche victim. Words are painted over and buried beneath the snow. Fragments of conversation tumble down like sentences cut off in the wind. The narrative voice is as changeable and combative as the weather, momentarily strong then filled with doubt, transiently still then bursting with life. Holding onto language, the original text resists its complete erasure. A voice speaks to the reader from beneath. Cutting steps through the landscape of the page, this collection raises age old questions, not in an attempt to answer them, but to reframe them in a contemporary form. What happens when we bury ourselves within a landscape? What do we become, and who will remember us? At the brink of losing everything, what stories are we left with? What do we leave behind? Faye Latham's British Mountaineers is a paperback collection of over 60 uniquely beautiful erasure poems, each is printed in full colour. This is a book of stunning and thoughtful artwork as much as it is a collection of poetry.
£18.00
Bok Bok Books Floating Words: 2021
Book SynopsisA collection of children's poetry by Bengali authors, exploring a deep cultural and personal connection with water.
£7.99
Theatrum Mundi Site Report
Book SynopsisSite Report is a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay, where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks are conduits that connect to the wider world beyond the home. It is not a book about the domestic: it is the domestic reimagined. Written through the architecture of the home and together with all its elements, it is an invitation into the worlds of windows, tables and sinks that should never be reduced to their mere objecthood. Developed and written during Rhona Warwick Paterson's fellowship at Theatrum Mundi (2020-22), Site Report is an imaginative re-worlding of domestic space that destabilises the most intimate and familiar of spaces, proposing a pulsating landscape with uncontained possibility. Edited by Marta Michalowska
£11.88
TJ INK The Emperor's New Self: Finding Certainty
Book SynopsisA personal journey that describes a mechanism to find certainty through relaxation, enabling the reader to relax deeper, feel better and enjoy life more. A highly personal yet universally resonant retelling of the therapeutic process that''ll help you find greater clarity and certainty of the self. What is offered in this book is another way to look at the precise mechanism behind the journey to transcend the monkey mind and help you find what it is you want. It is not the font of all knowledge that is true, but it will go some way to reveal exactly what is stopping you.After a career as a Naval Officer, engineering graduate and chartered accountant Andrew Harry continued his journey travelling to South America and the Antipodes, to return to the UK to live on an eco barge called Prydwen. He is now a Reiki Master, Master NLP Practitioner and Registered Polarity Therapy Practitioner and Trainer in the UK. He is a father of three and in recent years has played his part in developing a whole new modality that incorporates bodywork, mindfulness and meditative disciplines into the re-emerging art of relaxation. Andrew has returned to his Cornish roots and has settled in the vibrant seaside town of Penzance with his wife Joy to further his interests in developing and administering his therapeutic skills to assist others in their self-development and improving their well-being.
£9.49
ATF Press We Are Better Than This: Essays and Poems on
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£30.39
ATF Press We Are Better Than This: Essays and Poems on
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£22.79
Monash University Publishing Verge 2014: Everything and Nothing
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£16.14
Monash University Publishing Embodying Transformation: Transcultural
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£30.59
Monash University Publishing Verge 2023: Defiant
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£17.99
Spinifex Press This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915: ICLI
Book Synopsis‘Very few collections bring home so powerfully the vulnerability of individuals in the face of history’ writes Lisa Gorton of Robyn Rowland’s powerful poems recording the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War, 1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the propaganda of war. Importantly, the book finishes with a poem on women’s friendship 100 years after the war, and the healing nature of love.Trade ReviewStories of Australian, Turkish and Irish men and women in these poems show the intimate nature of war; not from the perspective of victory but from the perspective of those caught up in war, who, whichever side they were on, lost. -- Lisa GortonBoth the English and Turkish languages face each other across the pages as the men faced each other across narrow spaces between the trenches. In translating impeccably Dr Rowlands poems into Turkish, Professor M. Ali Çelikel has commendably conveyed the epic depth and literary qualities embodied in the poems. -- Himmet Umunç
£12.30
Spinifex Press between wind and water
Book Synopsisbetween wind and water, is to be in a vulnerable place, the place where people and planet are. When industrial wind arrives in the neighbourhood, some locals find that living with their new neighbour has brought a whirlwind of troubles. Their health and that of the community take a nosedive. Their complaints are filed into obscurity, their stories dismissed and their voices disparaged. What sort of world do we want? We ask how can we have a better world if people and planet are not equally respected? These poems speak the stories of people who have been denied a voice.Trade ReviewRejoice! berni janssens new book! This book is easy to love: its rugged, soft, deft,exact forms. Action is embedded in things; politics is stitched into the wind. Set againstthe bamboozle clatter of corpspeak and co-option. Its a beautifully grounded book and itsgoing to make trouble. Chris Mansell, Poet and PublisherOne of Australians treasures, berni m janssen, a pioneering sound poet, is fully focusedon the auditory as a means of experiencing the world. Dr Ros Bandt, InternationalEnvironmental Sound ArtistThere is no doubt in my mind that berni m janssen is a cultural icon for our people.James Hullick, Musician, Sound Artist, Artistic Director JOLT Arts aka )-(u||!c|<These poems fashion an epic grid that electrifies you, big energy at its absolute finest.Kent Macarter, Poet and Managing Editor, Cordite Poetry Review
£14.36
Spinifex Press Dark Matter: New Poems
Book SynopsisIn this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life.Trade ReviewIn Dark Matter, her seventh poetry collection, Morgan cannily exploits poetrys ability to be bothmetaphoric and direct. The voice is often conversational and anecdotal, at other times it is layered and allusive. What drives the collection is a deep and passionate intensity, which only a life spent in endless interrogation and interaction with self and world can achieve and sustain. - Patricia Skyes, Live Encounters
£10.40
Spinifex Press The Sacking of the Muses
Book Synopsisthe Muses have been sacked their role in the pantheon sold up for some new real estate venture When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Muses who inspire poetry, astronomy, history and daily living bring their song and dance into present-day political struggles. These Muses are for rebellion. Susan Hawthorne’s poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women's bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece and Rome, through language, storytelling and translation. we embrace our double lives like actors and their alter egos some say śleṣa is unnatural I've heard the same said about usTrade ReviewRed Doc> and The Sacking of the Muses: Susan Hawthorne's books have been compared to Anne Carson's, especially The Autobiography of Red the forerunner to Red Doc>. Both are imbued with ancient stories and each seeks to transform those stories into contemporary forms. They operate in the hybrid zone between epic and lyric poetry. Louise GluckRed Doc> and The Sacking of the Muses: Susan Hawthorne's books have been compared to Anne Carson's, especially The Autobiography of Red the forerunner to Red Doc>. Both are imbued with ancient stories and each seeks to transform those stories into contemporary forms. They operate in the hybrid zone between epic and lyric poetry. Louise GluckTable of ContentsPrologue Temper of the dance anupada LOVE Putana Kunti 1 Amba 1 Draupadi 1 Kunti 2 anupada EXILE Draupadi 2 Karna 1 Amba 2 Draupadi 3 Arjuna 1 anupada WAR Kunti 3 Amba 3 Arjuna 2 Karna 2 Kunti 4 Draupadi 4 Draupadi 5 anupada Embrace Ślesa Fire Gods Two Bright Horses Storm Gods Earthsky AT2018cow Ancient Cataclysm Storm Season Brhaspati's Cows Surabhi and Nandini Usaas Twenty Stanzas of Meghaduta Sarasvatikanthabharana: Sarasvati's Necklace Notes Towards a Poem about Madhu/Honey Demon Lagna Pooja Rooms Trijata's Dream Sappho's Butterfly Sappho's Butterfly Things a Lesbian Should Know Nonsense Sense Patriarchal Grammar Cyane The Clamping of Alcmena Circe Fragment 16, Sappho Fragment 22, Sappho Five Rivers The Sacking of the Muses 01 The Sacking of the Muses 02 Kalliope, Muse of Epic Poetry 03 Muses are Organising 04 Polyhymnia, Muse of Song 05 Muses are Grieving 06 Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy 07 Muses in Hiding 08 Ourania, Muse of Astronomy 09 Muses Undercover 10 Erato, Muse of Lyric Poetry 11 Muses Writing a Manifesto 12 Kleio, Muse of History 13 Muses are Occupying 14 Euterpe, Muse of Music 15 Muses Love Pageants 16 Thalia, Muse of Comedy 17 Muses are Dancing 18 Terpsichore, Muse of Dance 19 Muses Come out of Hiding 20 Tenth Muse, Sappho
£13.46
Spinifex Press I Will Not Bear You Sons: 2021
Book SynopsisUsha Akella pays tribute to the lives of women from cultures across continents, while reflecting on her own life. Her poems are the medium for women who refuse to be silenced. She condenses a calm rage into ferocious words of precision and celebrates the women who have triumphed. All the while a subversive dusting of humour runs through the collection. This is poetry that cannot be ignored. "Rage has no caste, needs no algorithm, light a pyre with it of chopped thumbs and scripted dreams"Trade ReviewThese poems distil perennial wisdom and are charged with life and a brilliance that lends us humans, particularly women, a voice. The poet demands that we speak.— Marianela Medrano, Dominican poet, author of Rooting: A Selection of Bilingual Poems
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Spinifex Press An Embroidery of Old Maps and New: 2021
Book SynopsisI can see how I carry Yiayia’s war in the ample dunes of my belly, the moment she smelt the guns, she pinched the candle’s wick, gathered the startled shadows of her children, flung my baby-mother onto her back and sprinted towards the neutral moon— Migration and the memories of women’s traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne’s trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother’s embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.Trade ReviewThese powerful, poignant poems embody the experience of generations of women, the dignity of their labour, their affirmation of life as a journey into uncharted realms, where they must adapt their skills to sustain their children in an unfamiliar culture: a challenge to be embraced wholeheartedly, bodily. The thread of a unique Greek-Cypriot embroidery tradition morphs into the thread of language celebrating the continuity and manifold richness of life in fluid, intricate patterns of ancestry and migration, the eloquence of words, hands, thread. —Jena Woodhouse. News from the Village: Travels in Rural Greece Angela Costi threads the colours and textures of heart and humanity through fabric drawn across geographies. Cut from one cloth, she stitches complexity of journey, place and people. Now and then. Anchored and looping. Her yarn and needle weave a taut finely detailed tapestry. This braid of head, heart and hand is to be treasured, passed on, a witness to events that must not be disappeared. —berni m. janssen, author between wind and water (in a vulnerable place)Table of ContentsFrom Bondi to Kyrenia Arrival Refugee Aerobics Land Mines Heavy Knock Knock Kostaki’s Harvest Woes Looping the Waves Making Lace Night Shift Crescendo The Weed Eaters The Good Citizens of Melbourne Incident in Aisle 5 Kostaki’s signature Fatigue Inner sense An Extra-curricular Assessment The English Missionary Kinaesthetic Grace Coburg When Coburg Lake became a Kyrenia Wedding When the Hill’s Hoist became the Wishing-tree Outskirts The Quadrangle of Dreams To Identify the Apostate Goddess Nike Somewhere Overseas The Colour Chase Shanker Hotel, New Delhi, 1991 ‘How to Drape a Saree' Bhagwanlila Exports, Varanasi, India The Summit of Choice Travel with a coward’s heart Abduction Calling Good Night Frontline Γιαγιά is swimming in my KeepCup Australia visits Minnesota Regulation The Daily Commute Father Homework The Guest Shelter After Dinner Diagnoses Remission 2020 Ocean View Abundance Supplementary notes Acknowledgements
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Spinifex Press The Wear of My Face
Book SynopsisThe Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull’s wing or wing through the aerosphere.Trade ReviewThe Wear of My Face is an uncanny and politically powerful collection. It traverses ‘strangelands’ that thrum with colour. Its fragments are suspended in a tender tension, much like the conundrums of the human world it explores. —Sarah St Vincent Welch, writer and image makerTable of Contentsthe architecture of pear a woman’s work some things are orange stray birds 1–10 the wear of my face you can be cruel to a bee girl in a park how’s the weather in binalong? neighbours strangelands what is he making in there preambles another day exodus ‘war zone tours’ knots please leave the door open bat greyhounds make great pets we tried to tell him red shock jocks his zombies cross my hand like i suffer not the work of fern this is what we do lines all i could see right of way bag (more ducks) happy days felt dark space scintillate ** forecast unlike a black cat catchcry takings threats locks cracks prey penalty ** rips brown goshawk mourning conundrums the refuge of art points signals first things first wheelbarrow hedge who’s been eating the moon back to basics old spice lost property who will bury the pensioners the power of prayer what does it take to make white bleached prayer: quick & dirty arrivals bees diapause summer you don’t pay for any fancy overheads protests nobody’s child kids half price syria’s children blood moon acknowledgements
£13.25
Spinifex Press The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews’ 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump’s chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness. First wave fear is back. Before an end was in sight now there is no end. Trying to make sense of an unravelling world that is downright mad. This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.Trade Review"Light in a dull time Best start to a better day Aptly delightful". Peter Doherty, medical scientist & Nobel Prize winner
£16.16
Spinifex Press Body Shell Girl
Book SynopsisBody Shell Girl is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Rose Hunter spent in the sex industry in Canada. When Rose walked into a massage parlour in Toronto in 1997, she was looking for a temporary fix to pay rent and avoid having to go back to her home country of Australia. Awkward, shy and looking for a place to belong, she found herself in a strange world she understood little about, other than here she could make more than rent. She planned to use her earnings to buy herself an education that would secure the career of her dreams. Naively believing she could do only what was required of her, without trauma or side effects and leave the industry on her own terms, she was shattered by what unfolded. This is her story. It is also a searing portrayal of this dehumanising industry in all its destructive power.Trade Review"Trauma can destroy narrative or it can create a firestorm in Body Shell Girl Rose Hunter has ploughed her memory and her radioactive journals to take us not just inside the debilitating machinations of her time in the sex industry but right inside the experience itself. A highly visceral reading experience that left me body-shocked and reeling. In Body Shell Girl Hunter annihilates misogynist fantasy word by word, page by page." -- Sally Breen, author of The Casuals and Atomic City "Body Shell Girl is incredible. It is a captivating and honest account of a womans experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the sex trade. Communicated with authenticity, you feel as if Rose is an old friend by the end of the book: she gives a voice to sisters who are too often unheard." -- Cherry Smiley, from the Nlakapamux and Dine Nations, founder of Womens Studies Online, Canada
£13.46
Spinifex Press Harvesting Darkness: New Poems 2019-2023
Book SynopsisRobin Morgan’s latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments ‘the ringmaster’s desertion’ as death hovers in the wings and aging unfolds, while "laughing at the pain / through the gridlocked traffic in my brain". Light and shadow, sleep and wakefulness, holding tight and letting go, regret and contentment, order and chaos, battle it out simultaneously through the interplanetary and domestic worlds.Trade ReviewIntense and at times magnificent. — The New York Times Morgan proves that exquisite poetry can sometimes be the most surprising gift of grief.A volume as proud, fierce, vulnerable, and brave as the poet herself. —Alice Walker An accomplished and original poet, Morgan commands a wealth of technical resources, evident in the formal poems, and spilling over into her free verse. Each of her lines has an integrity of its own, indistinguishable from the material embedded in it. My guess is that Morgan will be regarded as one of our first ranking poets. —Jay Parini, Poetry. Love is impossible.This truth has never been more touchingly exemplified than in Robin Morgan’s poems.They hit square center. —Ned Rorem Beautifully written, passionate, rich in splendid imagination. —Grace PaleyTable of ContentsI. REAPING These Hands Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Bag Lady The Ringmaster’s Desertion The Ceiling Regret Giverny in New York The Taxidermist ‘The Fish’ The Will Pearls II. THRESHING An Idea of Disorder The Wager Terms of Art Elegy for a Husband A Sighting The Frequency Lacemakers Sailing on the Lake of Mars This Worthless Act The Winter Solstice Necropolitans Simple Choices III. WINNOWING The Last Door The Other Side Icicles of Brine Three Variations in A Minor Key 1. Waltz 2. Etude 3. Nocturne The Old Woman Is Talking with Death Certain Evenings Falling Awake
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NeWest Press Revision of Forward
Book SynopsisBy turns tender and rough-hewn, and always structurally inventive, the poems in Wendy McGrath''s new collection show a writer reaching the height of her creative powers.Whether evoking the vulgar give-and-take of a men''s poker night, fleeting moments of connection between mothers and sons, afternoons spent in overgrown backyard gardens, or wondrous childhood trips to the drive-in, McGrath''s feel for the bygone details of working-class life is uncanny. The book''s highlight is the playful poetic sequence that gives the book its title, the product of a more-than-decade-long improvisational collaboration with printmaker Walter Jule, a series of not-quite-mirror poems whose meanings reflect on each other in kaleidoscopic ways.
£13.29
NeWest Press Bosun Chair
Book SynopsisPart family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people, The Bosun Chair is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured.Like ''ballycater,'' the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry-both her own and that of her great-grandparents-to tell stories of shipwrecks, war, resettlement, and men and women''s labour in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. With deftness and haunting imagery, The Bosun Chair reveals the inherent gaps in ancestral history and the drive to understand a story that can never fully be told.
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Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Her Voice, Her Century: Four Plays About Daring
Book SynopsisAn original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Century takes us from an English doctor stationed in the middle of Alberta''s unsettled north country, to the lives and work of two influential early Canadian photographers, to a Canadian journalist covering the First World War, to the scandalous relationship between an Alberta politician and a young secretary.Written for contemporary audiences and drawing heavily on newspaper articles, private letters, and court transcripts, this collection captures an authenticity of voice, using techniques of historical drama to connect the dots. Includes photos from the Provincial Archives of Alberta along with details of original production choices and stills from the productions.The plays included in the book are Letters from Battle River, The Unmarried Wife, and Respecting the Action for Seduction, co-written by David Cheoros and Karen Simonson, and Firing Lines, written by Debbie Marshall.
£18.89
NeWest Press Martini with a Twist: Five Plays by Clem Martini
Book SynopsisAbsurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini''s newest collection of work, Martini with a Twist-five plays spanning two decades of Martini''s career, from 1989 to 2009. A lonely elephant handler befriends the half-blind woman who drove through his yard, a severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life, a quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife, a young woman with the ability to smell lies struggles to make new friends, and a mismatched pod of whales in the Pacific Ocean struggle with identity, love, and interspecies dating. With a sharp tongue and impeccable comedic timing, Martini''s characters resonate beyond their impossible situations, their fears and hesitations all too human.
£14.39
NeWest Press Public Speaking & Other Plays
Book SynopsisAward-winning actor/playwright Chris Craddock explodes the conventions of the theatrical monologue in this collection of three hilarious, poignant, feverishly inventive and (sometimes literally) electric solo stage pieces.In Public Speaking, an amoral lifestyle guru finds his message of guilt-free self-interest tested when his sex-addicted daughter is kidnapped by a pair of dangerous thugs. In Porn Star, a mousy small-town librarian is titillated to learn that she has unwittingly become an internet sensation thanks to an X-rated viral video starring her and her ex-boyfriend (much to the horror of her mother, a family-values right-wing politician). And in the astonishing Moving Along, Craddock ricochets wildly through the story of his own life-through childhood traumas, adolescent tragedies, adult triumphs, and frequent philosophical tangents.
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NeWest Press Hillsdale Book
Book SynopsisWelcome to Hillsdale!In his new poetry collection, Gerald Hill invites you to take a cruise down the streets of Hillsdale, learn about its architecture, rehearse its schoolyard taunts and sample its denizens'' favourite drink recipes. Fusing history, geography and autobiography to create a document of life in Regina''s suburbs, then and now, Hill peels back placid suburban archetypes to expose the messy, challenging systems churning underneath.Spend some time in Hillsdale, and you''ll soon realize that places have stories of their own, chronicles that can be read as deeply as any book, if you know what you''re doing.
£14.39
NeWest Press Dear Johnny Deere
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL AND OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL AT THE 2015 BETTY MITCHELL AWARDS!When he met her she was a beauty queenWho wanted something more.Now she''s hanging out with himIn front of the liquor store.It''s hard enough for Johnny and his wife Caroline to keep their farm afloat when the banks, the government, technology, and nature itself all seem in collusion against them. But when an old high school classmate-now a handsome land speculator-returns to town, Johnny and Caroline''s marriage is at stake as well.In the short time since its premiere at the Blyth Festival in 2012, Ken Cameron''s Dear Johnny Deere has established itself as a new Canadian musical-theatre classic. With more than a dozen songs by alt-country singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith woven through the action, Dear Johnny Deere is a warm-hearted, tough-minded piece of entertainment that will appeal to theatregoers and Fredheads alike.Praise for Dear Johnny Deere:Dear Johnny Deere will resonate with many. The soul of the songs will certainly captivate. The comedy will tickle. And the underlying issues that inform the plot may even make some people take pause.--Lennie MacPherson, The Guardian (Charlottetown)Hauntin'', heartwarmin'', heartbreakin'', and just plain funny. An outstanding new play.--Joe Belanger, London Free Press
£13.49
Otago University Press Taking My Mother to the Opera
Book SynopsisPiquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From carefully chosen anecdotes it slowly unfolds a vivid and compelling sense of character and the psychological dynamics within the family. Many readers will recognise the New Zealand so vividly portrayed here, as Brown marshals deeply personal events and childhood memories in a delightfully astute, understated poetic form.
£16.76
Otago University Press As the Verb Tenses
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Otago University Press Lives of Coat Hangers
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£10.92
Otago University Press Getting It Right: Poems 19682015
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£10.92
Otago University Press Tender Machines
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£13.46
Otago University Press Nothing For It But to Sing: New Poems
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£10.92
Anvil Press Publishers Inc Glossolalia
Book SynopsisGlossolalia is an unflinching exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, and sexuality as told in a series of poetic monologues spoken by the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Marita Dachsels second full-length collection, the self-avowed agnostic feminist uses mid-nineteenth century Mormon America as a microcosm for the universal emotions of love, jealousy, loneliness, pride, despair, and passion. Glossolalia is anextraordinary, often funny, and deeply human examination of what it means to be a wife and a woman through the lens of religion and history.
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Caitlin Press Black Liquor
Book SynopsisDennis E Bolen''s forthcoming volume of poetry, Black Liquor, continues his exploration of modern disconnection and the disparate paths taken by those railing against the austere landscape of their lives. Imbued with lyrical evocations of lost childhood, mature love and deep friendship contrasted against brutal depictions of gruelling labour, industrial mishap, historical misfortune and often hilarious disappointment, the collection progresses to an appreciation of being alive, against the odds. Bolen writes in the pacey cadences of contemporary speech, tough and tender. His quirky use of metaphorical story charged with biting imagery makes these deeply autobiographical poems an exhilaration. As in his previous writings, five novels and two collections of short fiction -- among them Stupid Crimes (originally published by Anvil Press), Stand in Hell (Random House), Kaspoit! (Anvil Press), and Anticipated Results (Arsenal Pulp Press) -- this book explores the varieties of disaffection, this time in poetry and this time as remembrance of things past.
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Caitlin Press Steeling Effects
Book SynopsisWhy do some of us learn to bend? Others break? How do we move from shame to being enough? How do we bounce back stronger after adversity and then embrace our own humanity with its flawed beauty? In her first full collection of poetry, Jane Byers explores her personal experience with resilience, beginning with her own difficult birth, which she describes as inoculation against despair. As a young adult, the writer moves from complicity and its illusion of power to building a pliantself. Byers turns an unflinching eye to parenthood, as the mother of adopted twins, and examines the workplace through the eyes of a female safety specialist working alongside firefighters, transportation crews and heavy equipment purchasers. The author draws on the steeling effects of being queer to imbue her children and injured workers with suppleness. A late fall swim in an alpine lake; a woman in the twilight of life, risking delight. Red thermometers of grass shed their glistening mercury in a fever of gratitude; to tumble from the divine is to be alive in the pungent beauty that the so-called mundane has to offer. STEELING EFFECTS asks whether what doesn''t kill you makes you stronger and lives its way into the pliant beauty that gratitude affords.
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Caitlin Press Dreamland Theatre
Book SynopsisThe Dreamland Theatre exists in a photograph of a white building on sledges being pulled through the mud from one location to another by a team of horses in Prince George (then Fort George) circa 1912. These poems are about imagining place and, continuing the work of FINDING FT. GEORGE, Rob Budde''s process of trying, and failing, to find out where he is. Poetry is part of a place, and this book deals in the powerful homemaking that is language itself.
£10.44
Caitlin Press Dead Salmon Dialectics
Book SynopsisDrawing on scientific studies of salmon recycling in perhumid rainforests, this book follows the dark and often humorous trial of a young biologist at work in the wildest estuaries of the rainiest place on earth. Written for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the historic Lyell Island logging blockades on Xaaydaa Gwaay, these poems form a musicolous bricolage out of a mesothermal wordstream, sampling ideas of unequal value toward a cohesion of ecological and ecoliterary integrity. Filled with thousands of rotting carcasses, rain, swirls of phosphorescent algae, rain, night-fishing bears, local sledneck debutantes, the marvel of raven song, rain and near misses by giant falling trees, this is an interdisciplinary experiment for the senses and the synapses. While they challenge passive readers to activate and participate, the poems set the visceral beauty of coastal rainforest music to the unavoidable slippery realities of hard science, technology and philosophy.
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