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Kindness
A poem by Jordie Albiston and six etchings in response by Sheree Kinlyside. limited edition of 35 copies. Hand set type and hand bound cased in flutter bound book.
Selected Poems
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The Hanging of Jean Lee
Prize-winning poet Jordie Albiston's third book is dramatic. It spotlights the crunch times in the life of Jean Lee 1919-1951 from adventurous girl to hanged woman. It captures the times, the completion of the Harbour Bridge, the youth culture of the milk bars, the 'overpaid, oversexed, over here' American servicemen during the War, the invasion of petty crims for the 1949 Melbourne Cup won by Faxzami. Above all, it understands. Jean's last God-troubled speeches raise her mean life to suburban tragedy.
The Weekly Poem
The Weekly Poem has been primarily designed with teachers and students of poetry in mind. It contains exercises using 52 different concepts and forms, all of which have been developed to inspire and expand poetic practice. Each exercise is accompanied by one or more poems - sourced from around the world, with a main focus on Australia - which provide guidance, depth and an invigorating sense of possibility. The Weekly Poem represents an invaluable resource for all poets - emerging or established - and may be of benefit both in the classroom or at the private desk. It's such a blessed relief to have some little formal problem to work out, so you don't have to think about the earthshattering importance of what you are going to say. - Howard Nemerov Limitation makes for power... - Richard Wilbur
The Hanging of Jean Lee
In 1951, Jean Lee was Australia's last woman hanged. Award-winning poet Jordie Albiston's acclaimed verse novel puts this woman's tragic story within the context of her times.'As one might expect, it is a grim, tough story of the deterioration of a young woman's life and its brutal end. It is divided into four sections with deliberately cold-hearted titles: Personal Pages, Entertainment Section, Crime Supplement and Death Notices. The Hanging of Jean Lee is economically and imaginatively conceived with a strong narrative drive. In a series of short connected poems, Jordie Albiston has made a heart-breaker out of her material, ringing the verse changes, using rhyme and blank verse in short ch...
Jack & Mollie (& Her)
Jack & Mollie (& Her) is an exuberant, original and wildly inventive verse novel, which tells the story of 'J' through the eyes of her two dogs, Jack and Mollie. The dogs are adopted by J at a time when she is downcast, and their presence in her life proves vivifying and redemptive. In between the dogs' adventures, they provide observant commentary on her life.
Element
*Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal* Using chemistry as an indexingtrope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundationsand fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties andits inherent assumption of many as yet unknown elements to occur. These poems range across space and time, allthe while adhering to the formal constraints of atomic theory. The states and structures of being arescrutinised according to love's capacity for passion and fissure, blessing anddebt, and a compound body of two is progressively mapped onto the page. 'Albiston's poetrycohesively resettles readers well beyond the usual linguistic boundaries, andby these means the poems sharply renew possibilities of enunciation.' --Dan Disney, Westerly
Sukie's Suitcase
Everyone has a story. Whether that person comes from a different culture or country; whether that person is lonely or happy or sick or well; whether that person is someone like you - everyone has a story. Here are three stories. Perhaps you will find a friend inside, perhaps you may even find yourself. I know you have your own story too...
Fifteeners
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Euclid's Dog
Poetry Collection
