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“tim metcalf”

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  • The Moon the Bone

    Selected Poems 1986-2022

    by Tim Metcalf ...
    Working in the Australian bush for almost forty years has brought forth from Tim Metcalf a robust, adaptable and independent poetry, the downside being that he is less known in the urban centres. This selection from his nine books aims to redress the situation and bring this wide-ranging and extensively published poet to broader attention. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Underwritten Plain

    by Tim Metcalf ...
    Set at an abandoned bore-hole in South’s Australia’s Nullarbor plain, this epic poem in four parts, sparse as the plain itself, offers its vast and solitudinous explanation of Australia.Tim Metcalf is an award-winning poet who has for many years worked around Australia as a country doctor, giving him an intimate knowledge of this enormous continent and its people. This is his eighth poetry ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts

    by Yvonne Yi-Wood Mak, Haifa Al Sanousi, Ashley Barnes, Sandra Bertman, Hilary Elfick, Sue Eckstein, Bobbie Farsides, Mark Cobb, Judy Clinton, Ted Bowman, Sinead Donnelly, Mitzi Blennerhassett, Lindsay Buckell, Kate D'Lima, Mike White, Rogan Wolf, River Wolton, Kieran Walsh, Kaichiro Tamba, Monica Suswin, Steve Seagull, Lesley Schatzberger, Paul Schatzberger, Oliver Samuel, Julie Sanders, Sheelagh Gallagher, John Graham-Pole, Nigel Hartley, David Head, Diana Greenman, Robert Hamberger, Tim Metcalf, Frans Meulenberg, Chris Rawlence, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, Tim Jeeves, Christopher Johns, Amy Kuebelbeck, Corine Koppenol, Giles Legood, Anna Lidzey, Christina Mason ...
    Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play.The arts are shown to offer a means to reflect on memories, hopes, fears ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Maybe Street

    Selected Poems

    by Anna Buck ...
    One of the finest and most prolific poets ever to grace the Bega Valley Shire of New South Wales, Anna Buck was noted for her humour, attention to detail, and love of both people and the natural world. Her work, selected here by fellow poet Dr Tim Metcalf, stands as a unique and comprehensive record of this beautiful part of Australia. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Selected Essays

    by Clark Blaise ...
    Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers and Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched ... Read more

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  • Drowning in Wheat

    Selected Poems

    by John Kinsella ...
    Drowning in Wheat collects the best of three decades of John Kinsella's astonishing poetry in one volume. Kinsella is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest living Australian poets, and arguably the most important 'eco-poet' of the age; however, this collection also reveals a writer of unexpected and remarkable versatility, and one fluent in an almost bewildering range of forms, registers ... Read more

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  • Translations from the Natural World

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    by Les Murray ...
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  • The Last House

    by Michael Kenyon ...
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    by Frank William Talen ...
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    by Philip Gross ...
    With each new collection, Philip Gross’ poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in The Thirteenth Angel scan from moment to moment like flickering needles, registering stress patterns in the world around us – ebbs and flows of weather or events, in our own bodies, in the city streets before and after the pandemic, or on the autoroutes of ... Read more

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