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Streets of the Long Voyage by Michael Dransfield Paperback $10 (USED, Collectors) |
This reprint edition of The Streets of
the Long Voyage by the late Australian poet, Michael Dransfield, was
first published in 1972 by the University of Queensland Press in their
Paperback Poets series. This was Paperback Poets 2. This is the third printing and was published in 1974. Michael Dransfield was one of the best of a new generation of Australian poets which emerged during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He died in April 1973 at the age of 24. Streets of the Long Voyage was his first book. The collection is remarkable for its sensuous and evocative language, for a despairing assessment of the conventional world, for a celebration of alternative lifestyles, and for drug poetry that stands not merely for the drug experience itself but for all extremes of experience. The poems are remarkable too for their breadth of literary and other artistic references. Michael Dransfield's imaginative responses to music, books, and paintings mingle with the day-to-day reality of political life, city and country living, and the broad canvas of Australian landscape, to create, overall, a haunting lyric drama of contemporary life. |
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Michael Dransfield: Collected Poems edited by Rodney Hall Paperback $30 (USED, Collectors) |
Published by the University of Queensland
Press, in 1987. This is the first edition. More than a decade after Michael Dransfield's death, this book records the achievement of a brilliant young poet who became a legend in his own short lifetime. At the age of 21, Michael burst onto the conservative poetry scene of the late 1960s. His work was a refreshing contrast to the mainstream of tailored understatement and civilised ironies. With seeming ease, he wove all aspects of his age - love, loneliness, society, drugs - into his poetry. In true bardic tradition, he lived an itinerant life and his output was prolific. Four volumes of his poetry were published in three years, and three others appeared posthumously. In this book all of Michael Dransfield's published books are collected together in one volume and the introduction by Rodney hall provides an illuminating retrospective of the poet and his work. |
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Poems of Robert Burns selected by Ian Rankin ISBN: 9781846141164 Hardcover $24.95 |
Robert Burmns was a farmer's boy from
Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets,
celebrated around the world. This selection by Ian Rankin of verses and lyrics by the 'Heaven-taught ploughman' reveals Burns as a writer of tremendous imaginative sympathy with an easy, astonishing command of both standard English and the evocative Scots tongue. It also gives free rein to his incredible range – with poems gripping and fantastical, profound and political, romantic and bawdy. Truly the best of the Scottish Bard. |
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Selected Poems by Les Murray ISBN: 9781863954044 Paperback $27.95 |
Selected Poems is the latest,
completely up-to-date collection of Les Murray's poetry. It comprises
what Murray himself considers his most successfully realised poems,
drawn from all his collections up to and including The Biplane
Houses but not including his two verse novels. It is the first port of call for anyone wanting to experience the poetry of Les Murray, whether it be those who have always loved his work or those wanting an introduction to Australia's greatest poet. It is a distillation of Murray's best work and an ideal introduction. |
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Something to Someone by Dorothy Auchterlonie ISBN: 0-909422-11-7 Superb collector's item $50 |
Published by
Brindabella Press, Canberra, 1983. 230 copies hand-set in Monotype
Centaur and Arrighi, and printed by A.T. Bolton at the Brindabella Press
(of which 170 copies were made available for sale). The paper is
mould-made Arches. The frontispiece engraving is by Michael McCurdy and
printed from the wood. Bound by the Dove Bindery, Melbourne. Copy number
27. Clothbound hardcover book measuring 170x240mm with 36 pages. This
copy is inscribed by the author, "To Elsie and Chris with love and
thanks from Dorothy 1984." The picture shown is of the frontispiece
and title page. Hardbound cover is black and russet with gold trim. |
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Cthuloid Dreams: A Collection of Occult Poetry by D.J. Lawrence ISBN: Not available RRP: $26.95, Our price $18, PAN members $16.20 - paperback |
Cthuloid Dreams is a collection of Occult Poetry written by D. J. Lawrence. From Lovecraftian Esoterica to Setianism to visions of the fifth aeon -- Cthuloid Dreams will take you on a journey through the Primal Realms of Human Consciousness. |
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Fredy Neptune: A Novel
in Verse by Les Murray ISBN: 0-374-52676-1 One used copy in almost as new condition - paperback - $17.50 |
At the heart of Fredy Neptune, a heart that only quite reveals itself toward the last of its 10,000 blank-verse lines, is a notion so audacious and unnerving as to belong to poetry's flash of transforming revelation, not fiction's tidal sea-changes.... Murray's way with language and imagery is thrilling when it has action and character to sustain. He has given his protagonist a biting plebeian voice, a vernacular that soars. (New York Times) |
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A Poem Travelled Down
My Arm: Poems and Drawings by Alice Walker ISBN: 1400061636 Hardcover RRP is $29.95 - we have one remaindered copy with a few minor scuffs to the dustcover for $10.00 |
The essence of Alice Walker's independent spirit emanates from words and images that are simple but deep in meaning. An empowering approach to life...the inspiration to live completely in the moment...the chance to nurture one's creativity and peace of mind-all these beautiful elements are evoked by this unusual and original book |