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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Sunning to spine, else fine.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms.It is a baroque collection, playing with notions of inward and outward space, constructing its intricate perspectives with a restrained delicacy. The title sequence, 'Hotel Hyperion', is set in the future, in a space hotel where a collector gathers artefacts for a museum recording the history of space settlement. It also recalls Keats' great poem, 'The Fall of Hyperion'. Lisa Gorton's first collection Press Release (also published by Giramondo) won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry; she is the author of Cloudland, a novel for children, and an essayist and reviewer. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the worlds most-trafficked mammal implicated, some say, in the evolution of coronavirus.Written in Fibonacci syllabics, it is also a reflection on Marianne Moores poem The Pangolin with its sense of natures perpetuity lost in the years since her poem was written. The final sequence Great World Atlas tracks the destructive extent of nuclear testing across the world in the 1960s. It was written for Izabela Plutas artists book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation. The sequence Tongue reflects on da Vincis 1478 painting The Benois Madonna, including the circumstances of its creation in the Pazzi conspiracy and the life of Fioretta del Cittadino perhaps the paintings model who gave birth to the child of the murdered man. Her child was taken; she was written out of the record. In other poems too, Gorton reflects on the experience of the female muse, wife, or mother. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry**Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry*The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literaryawards for both poetry and fiction.Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Governmentof the time threatened to cut an eight-lane motorway through the heart of RoyalPark in Melbourne. She walked repeatedly in the park, seeking to understand howthe feeling for place originates, and how memory and landscape fold in and outof each other. The poems exploring this feeling for place are followed by asequence which recreates the colonial history of Royal Park through thegathering of fragments from newspapers, maps and pictures, a different way ofasserting its value, by demonstrating how a landscape can conceal the historyof country beneath its layers of time. From this close-up study, in its secondpart the collection opens out into poems which meditate on ancientstatues, Rimbaud's imperial panoramas, the making of Coleridge's poem 'KublaKhan', the exhibition galleries of Crystal Palace tracking, through chains ofinfluence, and a phantasmagoric procession of images, the trade between empire,commodities and dreams of elsewhere. Empiricalfollowsa deluxe promenade of thought, in which landscapes are mirrored and refracted inthe contemporary Baroque style for which Gorton is renowned. Praise for Gorton's second poetry collection HotelHyperion:'A sustained and complex exploration of how outer andinner worlds connect, of how to approach and address what we see, of the shapesand disfigurements of memory, of the links between dream, hallucination,reality and being. [It is] replete with persistent, transformativecrystallisations.' Sydney Review of Books'In her poems, we see briefly, behindus cities; but her focus is on the human sphere; and, within its circle, themind; and within that, art.' Mascara LiteraryReview *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry* Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, and whose second collection, Hotel Hyperion, was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal.The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in an old established Australian family that has lived for generations in a large house in a coastal town in south-eastern Australia. These tensions come to the surface when the granddaughter Kit is sent by her mother to spend a holiday with her grandparents, and the unmarried aunt who looks after them, in their old and decaying house by the sea. Kit barely knows them, because her mother is estranged from the family and never talks to or visits them. Recently divorced from Kit's father, she sends her daughter to her parents now so she can pursue an affair with her new lover. Kit's presence brings the old quarrels to life as family memories take hold of the present, brought to a flashpoint by the anger and resentment of Kit and her mother, and the dementia and sudden illness of her grandparents. The Life of Houses is written in an extraordinarily expressive and dynamic prose that makes use of the close focus and the oblique perspectives that Gorton has mastered so successfully in her poetry. It is a style reminiscent of Henry James and Patrick White, a high style, perfectly suited to the social decorum and inhibition of her socially elevated but unhappy subjects.A sample chapter is available here.Readings group notes can be downloaded from here. Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Lisa Gorton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction - The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, and whose second collection, Hotel Hyperion, was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in an old established Australian family that has lived for generations in a large house in a coastal town in south-eastern Australia. These tensions come to the surface when the granddaughter Kit is sent by her mother to spend a holiday with her grandparents, and the unmarried aunt who looks after them, in their old and decaying house by the sea. Kit barely knows them, because her mother is estranged from the family and never talks to or visits them. Recently divorced from Kit's father, she sends her daughter to her parents now so she can pursue an affair with her new lover. Kit's presence brings the old quarrels to life as family memories take hold of the present, brought to a flashpoint by the anger and resentment of Kit and her mother, and the dementia and sudden illness of her grandparents. The Life of Houses is written in an extraordinarily expressive and dynamic prose that makes use of the close focus and the oblique perspectives that Gorton has mastered so successfully in her poetry. It is a style reminiscent of Henry James and Patrick White, a high style, perfectly suited to the social decorum and inhibition of her socially elevated but unhappy subjects. A sample chapter is available here. Readings group notes can be downloaded from here. Paperback.…

Paperback. Lisa Gorton, Pan Macmillan Australia. After a year of endless rain, cities are flooded; families are living on rooftops. Called into a world above the clouds, Lucy stumbles across a strange society of injustice, weird beauty, and danger. With a few odd companions, she must travel across Cloudland and face the seemingly impenetrable force of Kazia, the ice queen, in a bid to stop the world from drowning, and the dawning of an Age of Ice. Called into the clouds to face an icy enemy, will Lucy ever find her way home. Paperback.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 192 pages. cover worn The first story is of ice.The shadow-monger dragged itself forwards in shrugs. It was a writhe of tentacles coiling around each other, groping the a ir then shrinking back. The cloud boy hunched over and pressed his face against the glass, so close Lucy could see his feathery lashes. She watched a tentacle o f darkness like a living shadow pour over the boy's shoulder and wrap itself aro und his neck. Then with one quick sudden tug, the shadow-monger pulled the cloud boy back and smothered him in darkness. The next instant, Lucy found herself st aring at blank blue sky.After a year of endless rain, cities are flooded; families are living on rooftops. Called into a world above the clouds, Lucy stu mbles across a strange society of injustice, weird beauty, and danger. With a fe w odd companions, Lucy must travel across Cloudland and face the seemingly impen etrable force of Kazia, the ice queen, in a bid to stop the world from drowning and the dawning of an Age of Ice.Called into the clouds to face an icy en emy, will Lucy ever find her way home.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Lisa Gorton is one of Australias most innovative and interesting writers, a much-awarded poet, novelist, essayist and scholar. This New and Selected Poems, a tribute to Gortons achievement, brings together in one volume poems published over the past twenty years, from her first collection Press Release to her most recent Mirabilia. It also includes a substantial new sequence of poems, Caesars on the relation between art and power. The title of the volume, Mirror Landscape, reflects Gortons fascination with the perspectives of space and time, and the ways in which memory and landscape, the past and the future, fold in and out of each other. Her images open to worlds within worlds, rooms within rooms, in poems which travel through exhibition galleries, panoramas, imperial extravaganzas and works of art particularly those of the Renaissance, dense with allusions and covert references. The new poems extend this fascination with perspective to new and more wondrous dimensions, with a focus on mirrors and landscapes as they are employed by the Italian artists of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Perugino. Their patronage by the Medicis allows their art to be read in terms of power ambition, intrigue, cruelty and murder so that with wonder the prospect of horror is never far off.Praise for Lisa Gorton:These astounding poems unfold like the chambers of a nautilus: spiralling, repeating in dazzling patterns They bring to poetry a heteroglossia usually confined to fiction in their exhilarating consideration of how art might be made and unmade. NSW Premiers Literary AwardsMordant political wit, formal and thematic bricolage, a liquid control of the line, and the ability to trace patterns across the strata of history and society to rove between time and the timeless have long characterised Gortons oeuvre. Australian Book Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

First edition. An octavo-size paperback original. Fine in wrappers as issued. Poets include: Les Murray, Laurie Duggan, Ann Vickery, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Jane Gibian, Fiona Wright and others.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2013 First Edition Soft Cover. No Jacket, As Issued. As New Condition, Read Once, No Signs Of Age Or Wear. All Pages Intact And Unspoiled. 50 Pages, Weight 0.2Kg. Please Note That International Orders Are Fulfilled By Airmail And This Means We Will Quote For This When An Order Is Placed, Please Contact Us If You Need To Know. We Pass Postage On At Cost.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the worlds most-trafficked mammal implicated, some say, in the evolution of coronavirus.Written in Fibonacci syllabics, it is also a reflection on Marianne Moores poem The Pangolin with its sense of natures perpetuity lost in the years since her poem was written. The final sequence Great World Atlas tracks the destructive extent of nuclear testing across the world in the 1960s. It was written for Izabela Plutas artists book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation. The sequence Tongue reflects on da Vincis 1478 painting The Benois Madonna, including the circumstances of its creation in the Pazzi conspiracy and the life of Fioretta del Cittadino perhaps the paintings model who gave birth to the child of the murdered man. Her child was taken; she was written out of the record. In other poems too, Gorton reflects on the experience of the female muse, wife, or mother. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry**Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry*The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literaryawards for both poetry and fiction.Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Governmentof the time threatened to cut an eight-lane motorway through the heart of RoyalPark in Melbourne. She walked repeatedly in the park, seeking to understand howthe feeling for place originates, and how memory and landscape fold in and outof each other. The poems exploring this feeling for place are followed by asequence which recreates the colonial history of Royal Park through thegathering of fragments from newspapers, maps and pictures, a different way ofasserting its value, by demonstrating how a landscape can conceal the historyof country beneath its layers of time. From this close-up study, in its secondpart the collection opens out into poems which meditate on ancientstatues, Rimbaud's imperial panoramas, the making of Coleridge's poem 'KublaKhan', the exhibition galleries of Crystal Palace tracking, through chains ofinfluence, and a phantasmagoric procession of images, the trade between empire,commodities and dreams of elsewhere. Empiricalfollowsa deluxe promenade of thought, in which landscapes are mirrored and refracted inthe contemporary Baroque style for which Gorton is renowned. Praise for Gorton's second poetry collection HotelHyperion:'A sustained and complex exploration of how outer andinner worlds connect, of how to approach and address what we see, of the shapesand disfigurements of memory, of the links between dream, hallucination,reality and being. [It is] replete with persistent, transformativecrystallisations.' Sydney Review of Books'In her poems, we see briefly, behindus cities; but her focus is on the human sphere; and, within its circle, themind; and within that, art.' Mascara LiteraryReview *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry* Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms.It is a baroque collection, playing with notions of inward and outward space, constructing its intricate perspectives with a restrained delicacy. The title sequence, 'Hotel Hyperion', is set in the future, in a space hotel where a collector gathers artefacts for a museum recording the history of space settlement. It also recalls Keats' great poem, 'The Fall of Hyperion'. Lisa Gorton's first collection Press Release (also published by Giramondo) won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry; she is the author of Cloudland, a novel for children, and an essayist and reviewer. By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, and whose second collection, Hotel Hyperion, was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal.The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in an old established Australian family that has lived for generations in a large house in a coastal town in south-eastern Australia. These tensions come to the surface when the granddaughter Kit is sent by her mother to spend a holiday with her grandparents, and the unmarried aunt who looks after them, in their old and decaying house by the sea. Kit barely knows them, because her mother is estranged from the family and never talks to or visits them. Recently divorced from Kit's father, she sends her daughter to her parents now so she can pursue an affair with her new lover. Kit's presence brings the old quarrels to life as family memories take hold of the present, brought to a flashpoint by the anger and resentment of Kit and her mother, and the dementia and sudden illness of her grandparents. The Life of Houses is written in an extraordinarily expressive and dynamic prose that makes use of the close focus and the oblique perspectives that Gorton has mastered so successfully in her poetry. It is a style reminiscent of Henry James and Patrick White, a high style, perfectly suited to the social decorum and inhibition of her socially elevated but unhappy subjects.A sample chapter is available here.Readings group notes can be downloaded from here. Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 88 pages, 32 x 24 cm, section sewn softcover with flaps. 9.5" x 12.5". Edition of 500 copies printed. Sealed, new. Winner of the 2019 Perimeter Small Book Prize. Drawing on a series of darkroom contact prints titled Spatial misalignments which were conceived by shining light through the pages of three long-out-of-print editions of The Reader s Digest Great World Atlas Sydney-based photographer and artist Izabela Pluta s debut book bears witness to the turbulence, mutability and power structures that both prop up and undermine the static dogmas of the global map. In these richly and elusively detailed images, the world as we knew it blurs and collapses in on itself, flow and miasma gently erasing the borders and demarcations the strategic fictions and mythologies to which we ve anchored our semantics of place.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Lisa Gorton is one of Australias most innovative and interesting writers, a much-awarded poet, novelist, essayist and scholar. This New and Selected Poems, a tribute to Gortons achievement, brings together in one volume poems published over the past twenty years, from her first collection Press Release to her most recent Mirabilia. It also includes a substantial new sequence of poems, Caesars on the relation between art and power. The title of the volume, Mirror Landscape, reflects Gortons fascination with the perspectives of space and time, and the ways in which memory and landscape, the past and the future, fold in and out of each other. Her images open to worlds within worlds, rooms within rooms, in poems which travel through exhibition galleries, panoramas, imperial extravaganzas and works of art particularly those of the Renaissance, dense with allusions and covert references. The new poems extend this fascination with perspective to new and more wondrous dimensions, with a focus on mirrors and landscapes as they are employed by the Italian artists of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Perugino. Their patronage by the Medicis allows their art to be read in terms of power ambition, intrigue, cruelty and murder so that with wonder the prospect of horror is never far off.Praise for Lisa Gorton:These astounding poems unfold like the chambers of a nautilus: spiralling, repeating in dazzling patterns They bring to poetry a heteroglossia usually confined to fiction in their exhilarating consideration of how art might be made and unmade. NSW Premiers Literary AwardsMordant political wit, formal and thematic bricolage, a liquid control of the line, and the ability to trace patterns across the strata of history and society to rove between time and the timeless have long characterised Gortons oeuvre. Australian Book Review Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.…