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Banana Girl by Paris Rosemont
Paris Rosemont’s debut collection, Banana Girl, traverses topics that are at once deeply personal, yet universal – explorations of love, loss and heartbreak, lust, sex and violence, the complexity of shifting power dynamics, peppered with a smattering of social commentary. As a second generation Asian-Australian, Paris also explores issues of identity and displacement, reclaiming power through her literary expression.
I hope these poems will speak, sing and howl to you, in the way that they speak, sing and howl to me.
ali whitelock
Paris’s poetry sparkles with originality of voice, integrity of feeling, sass, sensuality, depth of thought, rebellion, and tenderness.
Mark Tredinnick OAM
Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out On Disability
When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward? In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to? The poems, essays and artworks in this groundbreaking anthology answer both these questions at the same time. Written collaboratively and in conversation, they harness rage and grace to speak back to unhealthy, alienating systems and experiences. Both prophetic and celebratory, Raging Grace affirms disability and neurodivergence as unique sources of truth telling, and collaboration as a radical model for collective health.
Edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying with work by Alex Creece, Andy Jackson, Angela Costi, Anna Jacobson, Beau Windon, Bron Bateman, CB Mako, Esther Ottaway, Gaele Sobott, Gemma Mahadeo, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Jasper Peach, Jess Kapuscinski-Evans, Katerina Bryant, Kerri Shying, Kit Kavanagh-Ryan, Leah Robertson, Michéle Saint-Yves, Rachael Wenona Guy, Robin M Eames, Ruby Hillsmith, Sam Drummond, Sarah Stivens.
More from Puncher & Wattman:
Alchemy of the Sun by Margaret Bradstock
Anatomy of Voice by David Musgrave
axolotl waltz by Nathan Shepherdson
High Spirits by Paul Mitchell
Holocene Pointbreaks by Jake Goetz
Infantilisms by Louis Armand
I’ve been called away by Chester Graham
The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews
Tight Bindings by Sarah Temporal
Three Books by LK Holt
Winner of the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry 2024
'Three Books comprises "Merry War (of never meeting and never ending)", a suite of streetwise translations of 14th-century Persian poet Jahan Malek Khatun with Catullus; "Nina in the Hag Mask"; and "April", a singularly ambitious long prose poem. These are the work of a poet at the peak of her considerable technical abilities and imaginative range. If sentience is, as April, the heroine of the eponymously named poem, wonders, then perhaps we can see Three Books as the poet’s attempt to reckon with “the baffling result of simple action”. Holt transforms language into invocation, holding it by its stem.' Judges for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry 2024
More from Vagabond Press:
Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions by Peter Boyle
Polyp by Ashley Haywood
Raw Salt by Izzy Roberts-Orr
Search Histories by Caitlin Farrugia
The Maker of Garlands by Pooja Mittal Biswas
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