$11.99 – $29.99
Plus Postage (calculated at Checkout)
JENNY POLLAK
Clarion
Clarion is an eco-poetic suite of words and images written and created by Australian artist and poet Jenny Pollak. It focuses on two extreme weather events since 2020 that decimated a small forest of casuarinas on the western foreshores of Pittwater, just north of Sydney. The poetry speaks in the voice of a woman as she negotiates her relationship with a landscape in crisis. The powerful spectre of the sea as a beautiful and destructive principle sits quietly behind the poems as the instrument of change.
This magnificent collection of images and poems… is a love song, composed in syllables of sand, salt and sticks. …. Jenny Pollak reminds us that Country is still savage and strong, capable of great compassion. She reminds us that a relationship with Country is still vital and possible. Judith Nangala-Crispin
Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
About the author
Jenny Pollak has spent most of her life as a visual artist creating work that is fostered by a deep connection to the natural world. In 2012 she began a serious poetry practice. Since then her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Meanjin, Cordite,The Australian Poetry Journal, Stilts, Verity La, Plumwood Mountain, foame:e, and Australian Award Winning Writing.
Jenny lives and works on unceded land of the Garigal people at the mouth of the Deerubin (Hawkesbury River), a place that can only be reached by boat or by a forty minute walk through Kuringai Chase National Park.
ISBN 978-0-6457131-0-7 - softcover book of 98 pages
ISBN 978-0-6457131-1-4 - digital book as downloadable pdf
Additional information
| Weight | .178 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 148 × 210 mm |
| Version | PDF (downloadable after checkout), Soft cover book (posted) |
$11.99 – $26.99
Plus Postage (calculated at Checkout)
CATHY ALTMANN
Stars Like Salt
Cathy Altmann’s mastery of voice, and of the tumblingly fluid potential of the short free-verse line bring to us a sumptuous poetry in the simplest language. These poems of spider webs, sand grains, tidelines, small fish by a pier, trees that sing are truly, in her sure hands, ‘ziplines of joy’. Kevin Brophy
Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
About the author
Cathy Altmann’s poetry has appeared in journals, anthologies, websites and on Melbourne’s trains as part of the Moving Galleries project. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and currently teaches English and Latin.
Cathy’s first collection, Circumnavigation (Poetica Christi Press, 2014), won the FAW Anne Elder Award. Her second collection, things we know without naming (Poetica Christi Press), was published in 2018.
ISBN 978-0-6457130-7-7 - softcover book of 93 pages
ISBN 978-0-6457130-8-4 - digital book as downloadable pdf
Additional information
| Weight | .157 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 148 × 210 mm |
| Version | PDF (downloadable after checkout), Soft cover book (posted) |
$11.99 – $26.99
Plus Postage for Sotfcover (calculated at Checkout)
ANNE KELLAS
Ways to Say Goodbye
In this collection the reader is taken through dream sequences, abstract, ekphrastic and imagistic poems as well as deeply personal poems of loss. The effect is a cumulative building of a quiet world of reflective resilience as the poet tries out possible ways to do what is almost impossible – to love and to say goodbye.
These poems, their accounts of the ways art, chance talk, angels, birds, memories and music can come at us with terrible and tender truths, are gifts that teach us how ‘to read the mind of clouds. Kevin Brophy
Available as Softcover book, Digital book (downloadable PDF) and Audiobook (downloadable MP3 file)
CURRENT SPECIAL OFFER – Buy the Audiobook and within 24 hours we’ll send you a free copy of the Digital Book – so you can read and listen
About the author
Anne Kellas has lived on the unceded land of Hobart nipaluna since 1986, having spent the first half of her life in South Africa and the UK.
Her writing has appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals in Australia and elsewhere since the 1980s. Her 2015 collection, The White Room Poems, written in response to the death of one of her sons, was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize.
ISBN 978-0-6457130-1-5 - softcover book of 86 pages ($26.99 + postage)
ISBN 978-0-6457130-3-9 - digital book as downloadable pdf ($11.99)
ISBN 978-0-6457130-9-1 - audiobook as downloadable MP3 ($19.99)
Additional information
| Weight | .250 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 148 × 210 mm |
| Version | PDF (downloadable after checkout), Soft cover book (posted), Audiobook (downloadable after checkout) |
More Titles
Undercoat
Poems about Paintings
Softcover book or downloadable pdf
Also a link to a gallery of the art that Mark O’Flynn is writing about
After Cage 2nd edn
Softcover book or downloadable pdf
and link to audio of Dominique Hecq reading her book
This Shuttered Eye
Poems of the long gallery, by Rose Lucas, published by Liquid Amber Press, 2021
Soft cover book or downloadable pdf
Unexpected Clearing
Poems by Rose Lucas, published by UWAP, 2016
Softcover book
Even in the dark
Winner of the 2014 Mary Gilmore Award
Poems by Rose Lucas, published by UWAP, 2013
Softcover book
“…. motifs and images which repeatedly connect the most routine elements of life with the vicissitudes and beauty of climate, landscape, and animality…”
Alyson Miller,
Cordite
“….an intensity which is lens-like in its ability to capture the tensions of a life lived shifting between real and imagined worlds.”
Dominique Hecq,
Text
“Rose Lucas writes with tenderness and merciless accuracy about the intersection of the social and natural worlds”