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Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions. Filled with heartfelt poems and prose on the love, dedication, and laughter our dogs bring, as well as the unique lessons they teach us along the way, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell's vignettes of life with...
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Aussie-born, Liverpool-based actress, singer-songwriter and performance poet, Flloyd (with 2 Ells) Kennedy has lived, trained, worked and performed in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Nigeria, Russia, USA and England.
Her poems, songs and stories have been gathered together in much the same way as she has lived her life - moving from place to place when the need arises, stopping to take note of the chaos and the kindness she encounters and...
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365 days more of poetry, with verse ranging from the future to the past, the spooky to the melancholic, classic forms to experimental. Whether it's a lost colony ship, or vampires celebrating Christmas, this volume runs the gamut of science fiction through to horror and urban fantasy.
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Aussie-born, Liverpool-based actress, singer-songwriter and performance poet Flloyd (with 2 Ells) Kennedy started writing poetry in her early teens, sending letters home from boarding school in tetrameter rhyming couplets. Her parents were not impressed.
Now in her eighth decade, her second collection of songs and poems draws on an avalanche of memories from a life uproariously lived and wryly observed, taking philosophically comic stabs at the world...
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Wrapped in Folds of Midnight is a journey of emotion, through love and loss, breaking and healing.
Through short poetry and prose, the author allows you to feel a universal vulnerability we all experience, through the highs and lows of life and learning to love yourself.
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Disarming, warm and always accessible, Janelle Barker's poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her emotive expression is here: love, compassion, insight, lyrical precision and the clear, simple honesty that reveals how life can turn in a moment. Musing on undercurrents and connections between family, nature, memory, motherhood and the world of circumstantial events that have created our culture and our fears. The poems in this...
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Fiona Porch is passionate about helping others to leap their hurdles and pursue their goals. In her first collection of poetry, she hopes her message will become a boon for all those, who want to fly.
Within touching verse, Porch gently reminds us that it is okay if we all do not look the same, act identical, or believe in similar things while providing encouragement to push through heartache and pain to embrace love, acceptance, and kindness toward...
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A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of New Zealand's most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human introduces Kate Camp's eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.
How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems is Kate Camp's seventh book of poetry and the first to be published outside New Zealand. Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of...
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"Alison Croggon is one of the most powerful lyric poets writing today." — Australian Book Review Raw, passionate and dazzling, Alison Croggon's poetry confronts a world fractured by different kinds of violence — patriarchal, colonial, sexual and emotional — and finds there a difficult beauty. New and Selected Poems 1991-2017 brings together works from all nine of her published collections, new poems written since 2008 and previously unpublished...
12) A Poet's Curse
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These poems say the things that many people wish they could, but feel they probably can't. Uncomfortable truths, observations about life, and unashamedly honest responses to hateful people make this collection of poems highly relatable and deeply, darkly satisfying.
14) Embodied
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"Embodied" is a collection of 50 poems by singer and writer Kayla Collingwood. Written over a period of five years (after relocating from New Zealand to Europe), the selected works are inspired by reality, fiction, love, life, art, music, dear ones, strangers.
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Etymology of Courage is the follow-up to Spoken Medicine by Gabrielle Journey Jones, also published by Ginninderra Press. Gabrielle dedicates this collection to everyone brave enough to share their truth creatively through spoken word poetry. 'Etymology' is the study of the origin of words. 'Courage' means bravery, although historically it referred to our emotions, heart and feelings. Therefore, to speak poetry from the heart is a daring double act...
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Release the Fireflies is Karen Richards' third collection of poetry and prose. This collection takes the reader on a journey through grief and loss. It is relatable to any kind of loss, be it the death of a loved one, lost love or loss of self. It is a hard hitting, heart wrenching journey intertwined with hope and healing.
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