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In this issue, you'll find a curated selection of over 50 new poetry books to inspire your imagination and add to your reading list.
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The Natural World Somersaults by Shaine Melrose
These sharp, tender, smart and smarting poems move from childhood memories to depict the charge and dangers of adolescence and the cultivation of a gentler way of being. Attentive to the more-than human, these are poems attuned to the dark and light, celebrating resilience and renewal. Truthful and musical, this is a vital and striking debut collection.
More by Walleah Press:
Between Two Skies by Kay Cairns
Eye by Julie Maclean
haibun nation & other states by Eliza Dune Daiza
Lashings of Whipped Dream: Spoken Word - Ink on Paper by Thomas Forest Bailey
I'LL NEVER GET OVER ANY OF THEM (Second Edition) by Aoife Hilton - Print & PDF
Aoife Hilton is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Meanjin/Magandjin.
I'LL NEVER GET OVER ANY OF THEM is her debut poetry zine exploring themes of ancestry, sexism, sexuality, and love. It has been reviewed by Blue Bottle Journal founder Sean West as 'at once experimental and grounded in emotional reality'.
Second Edition readers will enjoy a full cover colour by Melody Borg, three (3) additional poems, and reviews to the content including further reading.
Living Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific
Living Systems celebrates poetry’s unique capacity to challenge and make new our experience of the world. At the heart of this collection is a reaffirmation of poetry as essential kit, as an art form that deepens and expands how we might perceive the world and know each other. The poems gathered here offer an alternative to the streams, echo chambers and silos of contemporary media and return the reader to the deep flow and entanglement of human consciousness and language unique to poetry.
If Movement Was a Language by Svetlana Sterlin
Winner of the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
If Movement Was a Language straddles many divides: between cultures, languages, classes, dimensions, states of matter, and the real versus the imagined—or (mis)remembered. The collection features recurring motifs around duality and duplicity, as reflected in the words’ fluctuating form on the page and the elusive image of light glimmering across water.
More from Vagabond Press:
Exhibition Text by D.Frederick Thomas
Flying Car Kaleidoscope by Joel Ephraims
The Impossible Shore by Jo Gardiner
Islands by Brett Cross
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