Download or read book In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts written by B. N. Oakman and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humor complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favor of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion. You'll be drawn into topics ranging from the socio-economic to the personal--the ekphrastic to football--the political to the historical.
Download or read book Men Briefly Explained written by Tim Jones and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's definition of his gender manifests itself against a backdrop of relationships, family, and society. Satirically challenges the illusions and fantasies of contemporary culture with smart, playful, and surprisingly intimate verse. A blunt and honest account about all the things men never discuss, including taboo subjects.
Download or read book Water Over Stone written by Laura Jan Shore and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world.
Download or read book Second Thoughts written by B. N. Oakman and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood. Oakman writes poems for those annoyed by poets. Resisting the florid and the abstract, Oakman drives directly at the point, with here and there a verse like Incan stonework, so carefully composed you barely see the joins. - Geoff Lemon, Editor, Going Down Swinging His poems are filled with surprises, sometimes making us smile, but the unexpected distilled truths he uncovers about ourselves and the world in which we live, can leave us weak and trembling, but always wanting more. - Peter Cundall, Peter Cundall Reads War Poetry He goes to the centre of things, drawing on both past and present as he creates landscapes of feeling in poems in which history, politics, people and places are refracted through a deeply felt understanding of the human condition. - Valerie Krips, Editor, Arena Magazine A collection of not just second but infinitely reconsidered thoughts on all the major themes of life and literature; a succession of brief encounters with a rich, and enriching, array of people, places, passions. - Ian Britain, former editor Meanjin Moments of frolic are shot through with wisdom, as elsewhere a purposeful ruggedness leads on to refinement. So many poems are distinguished by their final line: demonstrations of organic closure - conceptually retroactive, forceful yet elegant. - John Flaus, actor and critic
Download or read book City of Possibilities written by Jane Williams and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest volume, Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is. This is a collection with urban grit. It will speak to you in themes as intimate as next door, or as abstract as the next galaxy. You won't be able to put it down.
Download or read book Tincture Journal Issue Fourteen Winter 2016 written by Daniel Young and published by Tincture Journal. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
Download or read book Designs on the Body written by Lyn Reeves and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2010 Reeve's poetry has a depth of insight and resonating meaning that rewards reflection.
Download or read book Just Off Message written by Dr David P Reiter and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP. Now, 20 years on, more than forty creators return to celebrate the survival of this maverick venture with the very best of work past, current and future. Their message to you is that independent publishing houses like IP are, and always will be, an essential part of the cultural landscape even in the face of globalisation and aspiring robots. Who are these daring writers whose work is Just off Message? You know how to find them.
Download or read book Ruin written by Roberta Lowing and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. RUIN is one of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War (2003--20 ). Using four distinctive voices, and constructed almost as a thriller, Roberta Lowing's 55 poems re-create the devastating invasion and years of betrayal and heartbreak--and moments of hope and illumination--endured by Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. RUIN pays tribute to the Twentieth Century's greatest humanist poets and resonates with the influences of Neruda, Levertov, Celan and more. This work is of our time for our time, a collection which expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world.
Download or read book Yesterday Today and Tomorrow written by Amelia Fielden and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine poets, juxtaposing tanka in diary form.
Download or read book Coda for Shirley written by Geoff Page and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coda for Shirley follows the problems that ensue after the 90 year-old protagonist Shirley leaves her money to her two grandsons as opposed to her pair of problematic daughters.
Download or read book Stitching Things Together written by Leah Kaminsky and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2010 The author's engagement with science as a medical practitioner helps her appreciation and penetration of social issues facing contemporary Jews and migrants to Australia.
Download or read book Tincture Journal Issue Four Summer 2013 written by Daniel Young and published by Tincture Journal. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
Download or read book Backtrack written by BN Oakman and published by Interactive Publications Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backtrack, BN Oakman’s third full-length collection, is a suite of poems created in response to an observed, often baffling, world. Oakman writes with conviction in a direct and lively style, while employing various poetic forms to explore a wide range of emotions and experiences. He gives us poems crafted with empathy and humour about transient joys, abiding sadnesses, persistent injustices, fleeting triumphs and unassuageable grief – the whole exasperating mess and muddle of it all. Here are poems to engage the mind, touch the heart, nudge us to laughter, and occasionally, move us to tears. BN Oakman’s first book with IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) was In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (2006). This was followed by Second Thoughts and the audiobook What Did I Know. Reviews From Madrid to Finisterre by way of a morning chorus of magpies Oakman’s poetry speaks with grace and power to the insistence of history and memory but above all to the crucial importance of love. – Valerie Krips, author, The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Postwar Britain Eschewing the ‘contorted subject matters’ and ‘tortured’ language of his former academic colleagues ¬– as well as of many of his fellow poets writing today – Bruce Oakman is not afraid of being comprehensible. Yet there’s nothing clichéd, simplistic or predictable about his poems. They invest all kinds of everyday themes with a wry subtlety of perception, and a voice as elegant as it’s earthy. Enjoy their ‘expansive splendour’. – Ian Britain, The Making of Donald Friend: Life & Art The poetry in Backtrack is wonderfully unflinching in its focus on loss, injustice and the pain of living our mortal, loving lives. Humour and tenderness are in steady attendance, but it is the poet’s commitment to the truly well-made poem which is the fundamental source of delight. Rich imagery and a narrative skill supported by a beautifully subtle syntactical flare are the bedrock qualities at work here. To read through this deeply moving collection is to experience the unique Oakman blend of intelligence, craftmanship and compassion ‘burning away the dark’. – Ross Gillett, Swimmer in the Dust
Download or read book Tongues of Ash written by Keith Westwater and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongues of Ash is a literal exploration of the New Zealand landscape through memory, emotion, and spirituality. With passages of wry humour, raw imagery, and insightful observations, Westwater extracts insights from a mysterious landscape.
Download or read book In My Defence I have no defence written by Sinéad Stubbins and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinéad Stubbins has always known that there was a better version of herself lying just outside of her grasp. That if she listened to the right song or won the right (any) award or knew about whisky or followed the right Instagram psychologist or drank kombucha, ever, or enacted the correct 70-step Korean skincare regime, she would become her 'best self'. In My Defence, I Have No Defence raises the white flag on trying to live up to impossible standards. Wild and funny and wickedly relatable, it is one woman's reckoning with her complete inability to self-improve and a hilarious reprieve for anyone who has ever struggled to be better. This is the comfort read of the year from Australia's most exciting new comedy writer.
Download or read book In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts written by Bruce Oakman and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humor complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in favor of clarity. He elicits feeling through style, phrasing and understatement rather than by imposing emotion. You'll be drawn into topics ranging from the socio-economic to the personal--the ekphrastic to football--the political to the historical.
