Inspired writing from dozens of Australia's best known authors, but what's the connection between Miles Franklin and Omar Musa? Les Murray and Manning Clark? Kate Grenville and Don Watson -- apart from their tie with Canberra, and the high country around it. This innovative anthology brings something deep and quite fascinating into view..
Watermarks is dedicated to green literature and theories. Its poetry and prose questions the nature of place and of writing's capacity to sing the more-than-merely-human world. Eric Rolls, Noni Sharp, Robert Adamson, Margaret Somerville, Tom Griffiths and Herb Wharton each discuss the poetics and the politics of place.
The prestigious writing program at UTS produces this year's voices that echo the difficulty and frailty of human relations. There are short stories, plays and poems about the world of tattoo artists, abour fiery love and chillies, about the dark comforting numbness of the deep sea and much more.
From snappy and urbane to passionate and divine, the writing of tomorrow's novelists dances in burnished reds and icy blues. The latgest collection from our most gifted young writers is set to define the landscape of Australian literature.
Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.
John Hawke looks at the enthusiastic reception European symbolism got in Colonial times, as well as the alarming politics of litery figures, and the striking originality that modern global influences brought out in some of Australia's best loved writers.
As a naive and innocent young man, Parzival encounters a group of noble knights in the forest. Overcome by the leading knight's shining armour, he assumes that the man must be a God. This key turning point in Parzival's life inspires him to seek to become a knight himself, and immediately he embarks upon a quest to find King Arthur's court and ......
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of Am
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from `America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.
An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
Carol Rumens has been contributing `Poem of the Week to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. This is a wide ranging anthology of work by contemporary poets from different backgrounds, with accompanying prose commentaries, drawn from the Guardian Poem of the Week blog.
Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq W
In this annotated anthology, Robert Gullifer and Matthew Jenkinson demystify poetry while showing that there are many good reasons to pick poems apart. This book has been designed so it is useful to anyone interested in learning about or teaching poetry, as well as those revisiting poems and poets they may have already encountered.
Contains twenty pieces that form a poet's travelogue A- since his exile from China in 1989. This title includes tales and descriptions of cities such as Copenhagen, Durham, Johannesburg, New York, Paris and Prague and stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as of literary, artistic and political figures.
A collection of studies of writers and mystics, past and present, which considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. This work provides readings of Elizabeth Jennings's chosen authors and offers clues to her own poetry.
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody, and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotation.
Joseph Brodsky in English: Pages from a Journal 1996-97
For many years the author was associated with the late Russian emigre poet Joseph Brodsky. This work offers an account of their relations, in which the author is both translator and confidant to the great poet. It also includes detailed discussions of the problems of translating Brodsky's poems.
A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in "The Prelude,"
A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Aland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems.
Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.
Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.
This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer's mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.
