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Element - The Atomic Weight and Radius of Love by Jordie Albiston
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
*Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal* Using chemistry as an indexing trope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundations and fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties and its inherent assumption of many as yet u ...Show more
Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu of the traditional fourteen. Themes of destruction ...Show more
Frank by Jordie Albiston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Frank, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albisto ...Show more
Jack & Mollie (& Her) by Jordie Albiston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
...up here I have the high eyes to identify my all-around of course I must go the way below some often as I have the depend on the sniff to comprehend the every but her shoulder is of the significant special on account of my near-near to Her we are of the similar see which from a philosophical brings us ...Show more
Prayers of a Secular World by Jordie Albiston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of prayers written by Australian poets expressing praise, thanksgiving, joy and sadness, faith and doubt in the existence of any kind of god, and forgiveness for our human frailties.
Selected Poems by Jordie Albiston
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jordie Albiston is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated poets, and Selected Poems presents a keenly anticipated retrospective of her work. This significant volume offers the reader an enthralling visit to all thirteen of her critically acclaimed poetry collections—many of which have been ...Show more
The Book of Ethel by Jordie Albiston
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The subject of this work is the author's maternal great grandmother. These poems are compact & precise micro-portraits in verse. With characteristic adherence to formal, almost claustrophobic strictures set against an animate sense of buoyancy, Albiston explores the tension between high poetic artif ...Show more
Vertigo: A Cantata by Jordie Albiston
$23.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jordie Albiston's poetry is known for its rhythmic power, buoying a sharp and often dark intelligence. Vertigo invokes her background in music, using elastically spaced bar-lines to punctuate its energetic cadences. And, modelled like a cantata, it lays out something of music's paradox - emotional inten ...Show more
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