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- y Charmed Lives St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z244848 1988 selected work poetry
- y The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems: 1983-1989 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z288195 1991 selected work poetry
- y New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z549076 1991 selected work poetry biography
- y 1953 1953 : A Verse Narrative St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013 Z1911422 2013 selected work poetry
- y To Vivlio ton Epigrammaton Thessaloniki : Nea Poreia , 1980 Z939558 1980 selected work poetry The Book of Epigrams St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1985
- y Serpentine Futures St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z471168 1986 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986
- y Travelling St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z402665 1986 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986
- y Shabbytown Calendar Brisbane : University of Queensland Press , 1975 Z47682 1975 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987
- y Travel Dice St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987 Z422033 1987 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987
- y Under Berlin : New Poems 1988 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z437923 1988 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988
- y Love Poems and Other Revolutionary Actions Cammeray : Saturday Centre , 1979 Z275501 1979 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988
- y Barbecue of the Primitives St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 Z166431 1989 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989
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Driving Too Fast
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1989
Z135595
1989
selected work
poetry
'Dorothy Porter's fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.
'From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don José to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, Driving Too Fast bursts with vitality, a horsepower rhythm and language that turns on a dime.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 - y The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems R. M. W. Dixon (editor), Martin Duwell (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z555806 1990 anthology poetry criticism biography 'This anthology of Aboriginal song poems is the first collection of its kind, bringing together examples of an ancient and continuing tradition...These songs appear in a diversity of styles. The selections herein are from four distinct aboriginal language groups of North Queensland, Central Australia, Arnhemland aand the Simpson Desert. Each song appears in its original language with the translation opposite. The cultural context is provided by brief introductions and detailed commentaries through out the anthology.' (Source: Publisher's blurb) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990
- y Collected Poems Judith Rodriguez (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z453386 1990 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990
- y The Observatory : Selected Poems of Dimitris Tsaloumas St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1983 Z497455 1983 selected work poetry Author's first selection of his poetry in English (parallel text in Greek) and winner of the 1983 NBC Award. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991
- y Komninos St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z152301 1991 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991
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Akhenaten
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1992
Z248289
1992
single work
novel
(taught in 6 units)
'Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history – archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive cult of personality.
'Like Albert Camus celebrated Caligula, Dorothy Porter's Akhenaten is an attractive warped megalomaniac who attempted to construct an heretical religion around one Sun God, with himself at the centre.
'Akhenaten is a novel in verse that captures the obsessive, erotic nature of its central figure. It is a towering achievement.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Picador ed.)
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The Barge
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1993
Z272686
1993
selected work
poetry
'Third English language collection of poems by a Greek-Australian writer. Contains new as well as previously published work. The other two collections are 'Falcon Drinking' and 'Portrait of a Dog'.' (Publication summary)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 - y Passenger on a Ferry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z298644 1994 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994
- y Komninos by the Kupful St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z304180 1994 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994
- y Sandstone St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z535909 1995 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995
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The Harbour
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1998
Z555132
1998
selected work
poetry
'From haiku to elegy, these poems move from the Greek Islands to suburban Australia and on to the timeless plains of the imagination. When the brilliant and haunting sequence poem Six Improvisations on the River was first published in England in 1995, it was described as 'weaving into the fabric of history a place for the artist as visionary.'' (Publication summary)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1998 - y Two Kinds of Silence St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1398262 2007 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007
- y Old/New World: New and Selected Poems St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1402026 2007 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007
- y Parts of Speech St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1423278 2007 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007
- y Revolving Days : Selected Poems St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1472223 2008 selected work poetry 'This is a collection spanning David Malouf's career. It includes previously published poems, as well as new poems organised by their geographical setting, according to the places in which David has lived over the last 30 years.' (Provided by publisher). St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008
- y The Balcony St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1513817 2008 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008
- y Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1520408 2008 selected work poetry prose 'Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, John Kinsella's "distractions" create a world in which heaven, hell and purgatory co-exist. Set in the wheatbelt zone of Western Australia, Kinsella's Divine Comedy takes the reader on a journey through the real and imagined and nature in its full regalia. This is a book of hope and redemption that faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us.' (Publisher's blurb) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008
- y Aria St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1522089 2008 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008
- y Apples with Human Skin St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2009 Z1635524 2009 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2009
- y Parts of Us St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010 Z1669494 2010 selected work poetry 'Parts of Us holds in balance a quiet maturity with a vital energy. Ranging from sonnet sequences to long lyrical meditations, dramatic monologues to more confessional works, these poems are imbued with verve, curiosity and elegant inquiry. The collection is marked by an almost self-elegiac strain, an unflinching imagining of on''s own death, and a sense too of love fading, which serves as a brave and powerful corrective to the idealisation of some love poetry written by men about women. In the light of these themes, the lively "Adelaide Lunch Sonnets" acquire additional weight and resonance.' (From the publisher's website.) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010
- y Starlight : 150 Poems St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010 Z1720630 2010 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010
- y Ashes in the Air St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1755431 2011 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011
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Surface to Air
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2011
Z1802846
2011
selected work
poetry
'Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006 to 2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut Latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti.
'While many of the poems in latecomers, concerned the history and landscape of Bribie Island, where Savige grew up, this collection is about leaving the island and as such, it signals a departure from Latecomers.
'The title, Surface to Air, conveys the central themes of the collection, which include: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural, to the present; the struggle for literal inspiration, (a title of one of the poems) in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance and loss; the ubiquity of violence, and the relationship between actual violence and the simulacrum of violence and war (connoted by the phrase "surface-to-air missile"); among others. It is also an invitation to be mindful of the surface effects of language.' (From the publisher's website.) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 -
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The World Last Night
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2012
Z1910552
2012
selected work
poetry
'With unmatched greenness the plot of earth holding the body stands out on the hillside.
Most of the day's life is drawn there toward what's vanished into emptiness.
the end of the world never changes - the last words from The Worlds Last Night, with no dot at the end. Yet the world of the end changes with every printed or erased line. There are no borders of inherited pain between the verses of this book, even when its sharp edge can let blood from your lines of life, Books are cursed to be archaeological artifacts only when they are about the ground - away from the worms of oblivion and the waiting hands of the clock. MTC Cronin's proems are soft as a stone that becomes sand in an hourglass, silent as a darkness in an empty suitcase. Her purified world of long-distance silence clear the dust from the human's distrust in all yesterdays, deaths and gods. Look at stone / if you wish to read the language of wind. Dreamy words carved in the air! Nikola Madzirov.' (Publisher's blurb)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2012 -
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The Agonist
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2017
12000833
2017
selected work
poetry
'With its wildness and originality, The Agonist is an exhilarating collection. Exploring the languages of anatomy, etymology and incantation, these poems craft conversations about fracture and repair, energy, love and danger. ' (Publication summary)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2017 -
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Viva the Real
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2018
14326671
2018
selected work
poetry
'An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.
'Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, Viva the Real celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones’ poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading.' (Publication summary)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2018 - y A Kinder Sea St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18610460 2020 selected work poetry 'A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. It is composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett's remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty.' (Publication summary) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020
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