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Broken Lines
"37 poets. 128 poems, their origins in the Poetry Classes of Joanna Preston. new, emerging and well-established. These poems had their origins in the Poetry Classes of Joanna Preston"--Back cover.
Tumble
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tumble is a beautifully crafted collection that traverses traditional forms, the lyric and free verse.
The Summer King
The Summer King a book of poetry tells stories exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, sport all are featured in this 'fine and fierce first collection' (Gillian Clark). The book contains two sequences: Cowarral, about poet Joanna Preston's family farm in the Forbes Valley of New South Wales (Australia), and Venery, which was inspired by the collective nouns that first appeared in the Book of St. Albans. Joanna Preston, an exciting new Australasian voice, was the inaugural winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, which is New Zealand's richest poetry prize. Her warm, accessible, and moving poetry shows technical skill, originality, verve, wit, and humanity.
A world without maps
In poems that range from the minimalist to the theatrical, Jane Simpson evokes the fascinatingly unfamiliar world of the Arabian Peninsula, where she found her preconceptions about Muslim women completely shattered. She writes of home and family with great tenderness. Choked forms wonderfully match the sensations of grief. In a synthesis of home and abroad, science and art, the poems reveal a compassionate, searching gaze in a world without maps.
Hell's Gate
It's fire season in Montana... From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a disillusioned star litigator who goes west to forge a new life in Big Sky Country -- and stumbles onto the toughest case of his career. When thirty-five-year-old lawyer Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the New York City rat race that has made him rich but cost him his marriage, he takes his brother's advice and sets out to build a new life in the beautiful but isolated town of Fort Mason, Montana. However, escape is hardly what he finds there. Hunter befriends Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper -- one of an elite corps of firefighters who parachute into remote wilderness area...
The Secret Life of Poems
The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for students and readers of poetry, and seeks to explain how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems.
Otherwise
As her husband Donald Hall writes in the afterword to Otherwise, we share "her joy in the body and the creation, in flowers, music, and paintings, in hayfields and a dog."
Leaving the Red Zone
More than 400,000 people, more than 14,000 earthquakes. 5 years. People talked about quake brain, but the Canterbury earthquakes, despite of, because of this, generated amazing bursts of creativity. Leaving the Red Zone is a rich and wide-ranging collection showcasing much of the best poetry: 148 poems from 87 poets. Here are sorrow, resignation, defiance, stoicism, humour black and wry, and everything in between. Other books will tell of the earthquakes from the point of view of the geologist, the historian, or photographer; Leaving the Red Zone tells of the Canterbury earthquakes from the point of view of the human heart.
The Synthetic Age
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about this coming epoch is not only how much impact humans have had but, more important, how much deliberate shaping they will start to do. Emerging technologies promise to give us the power to take over some of Nature's most basic oper...
A Dove at Midnight
The heir to her father’s castle, a devout maiden must face the perils of power—and the dangers of love—in this “thoroughly charming” historical romance (The Times-Picayune). Lady Joanna Preston lives cloistered behind the walls of a nunnery, sealed away from a world of savagery and sorrow. As heir to the sought-after Oxwich Castle, Joanna has vowed never to love or take a husband, denying herself the passion she has secretly dreamed of. When Sir Rylan Kempe, Lord of Blaecston, a fierce yet noble warrior-knight locked in a vengeful battle with a royal enemy, comes to claim her and her castle in the name of ultimate revenge, Joanna is intent on defying the commanding knight at every turn. Yet soon the treachery of kings binds them together in unholy union and soul-deep desire, and Rylan must choose between his consuming love for Joanna and the treacherous game to which he has pledged his life.
