Out-Side - Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria by Michael Earp (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Classics & Poetry
There’s a lot that can be found outside… Myths emerge from the wood; rainbow parents and grandparents reflect on full lives; daughters spin yarns about black eyes; dragons fight beside their human companions. Poets muse on the mysteries of love and transformation. A three-headed cat stands as proud as ...Show more
Stolen by Jane Harrison
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Cts Ser.
'Stolen' tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community, after their release they begin their journey 'home', not all of them successfully.
Inward - A Journey of Conversations by Logan Gray; Yuzha Chudiak (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Inward: A Journey of Conversations is an exploration of ideas to do with existence, aspects of emotional responses and the way one may best conduct themselves to create the most fruitful and abundant life possible. It is a poetic story following a young boy's development from blissful ignorance to wise ...Show more
Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town, this is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful snapshot of a Koori family that dramatises their struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance.
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more
Lord of the Flies: New Educational Edition by William Golding
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Lord of the Flies is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound que ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many ot ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions
It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Mor ...Show more