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The Detective's Chair

Prose Poems about Fictional Detectives

by Anne M. Carson

illustrated by René Carrasco

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Anne Elvey Leaf

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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 cloudsKevin Brophy

Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book

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 978-0-6450449-8-0 - softcover book of 82 pages

ISBN 978-0-6450449-9-7 - digital book as downloadable pdf

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Weight.180 kg
Dimensions148 × 210 mm
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Anne Elvey Leaf

$11.99$29.99

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DIANE FAHEY

The Light Café

 

“The poems in this wonderful book trace the most subtle shifts of light, the lives of clouds and birds, with such delicacy and intensity as to make them sources of revelation. The experiences registered in The Light Café may seem to be at the margins of the mind’s usual range of attentiveness, at the edges of consciousness, but Diane Fahey’s writing gives them the weight of centrality, of newly revealed depths both in the natural world and in human perceptiveness itself.”  Ross Gillett

Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book

About the author

Diane Fahey lives and writes on Wadawurrung Country.

The Light Café is Diane Fahey’s fifteenth poetry collection. Across her work she has engaged with myth and fairy tales, visual art, life writing and nature writing – with a particular focus on birds, and on place. Her poetry has been widely published and awarded in Australia and internationally. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UWS.

 

ISBN 978-0-6457130-0-8 - softcover book of 104 pages

ISBN 978-0-6457130-2-2 - digital book as downloadable pdf

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Weight.250 kg
Dimensions148 × 210 mm
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Anne Elvey Leaf

$11.99$24.99

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ANNE M. CARSON

The Detective’s Chair:

Prose Poems about Fictional Detectives

Do you love detective fiction or intriguing character studies? Have you ever thought about that creative spark that solves the puzzle? Drawing inspiration from a range of her favourite fictional detectives, Anne M. Carson has created a wonderful, whimsical collection of 32 short prose poems which suggests a creative correlation between problem solving and the crafting of a poem.

In a playful homage to these colourful fictional sleuths, Carson focuses in on the nature of creativity itself, acknowledging that it’s often in these moments of reflective ‘sitting,’ away from the bustle of clue collecting and intentional effort, that the pieces of the ‘solution’ – be it crime or poem – might start coming together. Each poem is beautifully illustrated with delicate line drawings by René Carrasco, bringing to life the different space of reflective possibility for that detective.

Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book

About the author

Anne M. Carson writes on unceded Boon Wurrung Country. She has published four collections of poetry and was shortlisted in the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2022). Anne has hosted a range of poetry-led experiments in social activism and is a current PhD candidate, writing a poetic biography of George Sand.

Her love of detective fiction has inspired her poetry for this collection – Mx Carson, in the library, with the pen!

ISBN 978-0-6450449-8-0 - softcover book of 82 pages

ISBN 978-0-6450449-9-7 - digital book as downloadable pdf

Additional information

Weight.180 kg
Dimensions148 × 210 mm
Version

PDF (downloadable after checkout), Soft cover book (posted)

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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

Cover of Lockdown Poetry chapbook

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

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“Rose Lucas writes with tenderness and merciless accuracy about the intersection of the social and natural worlds”

Ali Jane Smith,

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