Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers ...

Antipodes is a collection of over 100 poems, half by Indigenous poets and half by white poets - among them some of Australia's best know poets. The poems look at the European settlement of Australia from both black and white perspectives, from initial settlement to the present.

William Fox reminds us that, behind the poetry, poets are human and are built from place. For years, Fox has crafted his voice to arrive at this magnificent debut: biding time, honing cadence, refining his ability to lure us to a bluestone precipice where, a few poems in, we become trapped in the...

Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of ...

Organized by topic, offers approximately three thousand familiar and little-known quotations from Shakespeare's plays and poems.

"A unique assemblage of poetry, photography and collage. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and originality, as well as the relationship between poetry and other disciplines: the visual arts, history, literature and film." -- Back cover.