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Empirical by Lisa Gorton
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction. Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Government of the time threatened to cut an eight-lane motorway through the heart of Royal Park i ...Show more
Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gortons new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. It is a baroque collect ...Show more
Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in an old established Australian family that has lived for generations in a large house in a coastal town in south-eastern Australia. These tensions come to the surface when the granddaughter Kit is sent by her mother to spen ...Show more
Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the world’s most-trafficked mammal – implicated, some say, in the evoluti ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2013 by Lisa Gorton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'What characterises Australian poetry now is its variousness ... Here are collage poems with a confessional impulse, short short stories, late surrealist couplets, poems that weave satire and lyric together, fragmentary essays in epistles, metaphysical pastorals, epic narratives glimpsed through keyhole ...Show more
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