The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
Inside Story: The Wonderful World of Writing, Illustrating and Publishing Children's Books by SOPHIE MASSON
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Category: writing poetry literature
Inside Story is a fabulous showcase of the richness and diversity of contemporary Australian children's books. An attractive full-colour production, it is packed with tips, advice, illuminating quotes and anecdotes. The stellar list of contributors includes writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, ag ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
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Category: writing poetry literature
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Ekho by Roslyn Orlando
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Category: writing poetry literature
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Orlando restores the Ekh into a dynamic poetic voice. Ekho is a poem in three parts. Through poetic narrative, this work considers the 'echo' as a social and historical phenomenon. From Echo, the nymph of Greek mythology who's voice was stolen by th ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: writing poetry literature
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Aussie Talk: Australian Slang-uage: Sayings, Slang and Idiom, the Aussie way by Paul Bugeja
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Category: writing poetry literature
The Aussies use them every day, some of them more than others. They make their conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare...and sometimes seemingly foreign or incomprehensible to visitors to their shores. They derive from a variety of cultural, historical and ethnic sources, ...Show more
Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
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Category: writing poetry literature
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
The Aussie Slang Dictionary by Australian Geographic
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Category: writing poetry literature
A new, larger-format version of our beloved slang dictionary. Australian English has always been rich in slang and dialect words, many of which – dinkum for example – came out from Great Britain with the convicts and their meanings and pronunciation changed. Words from Indigenous languages, such as boom ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight:New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
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Category: writing poetry literature
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Beautiful Chaos On Motherhood, Overwhelming Love and Finding Yourself by Jessica Urlichs
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Category: writing poetry literature
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies by Edward Curtin
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Category: writing poetry literature
Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies is a collection of lyrical and critical essays offering keen insight into a very wide range of topics: from probing analyses related to work, the digital revolution, propaganda, the attacks of September 11, 2001, the CIA, government assassinations and wars, to spellbin ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more