Cirrus@Austlit

'Join Brian Purcell on a personal poetic excursion through the history of the great films – from Caligari to Oppenheimer, Bergman to Tarkovsky, 2001 A Space Odyssey to Godzilla Minus Zero! Prepare to be challenged, shocked and amused.

'‘With so many roles and perspectives, whilst maintaining a singular consistency with his voice, Purcell is encompassing the entirety of his world, our world and the world of cinema into one amalgamative vision.’

'D G Lloyd, prizewinning author of ‘Alive in Dubbo’'(Publication summary)

'100 Poets celebrates more than one hundred books in the Pocket Poets’ series! It features one poem each from poets both obscure and well-known – established and up-and-coming – Australian and international – who are all part of the Flying Islands’ community. Each poet has been given one pocket-page to contribute work – and it makes for a brilliant, surprising, illuminating read! Get it for someone you love – or for yourself. Featuring a richly evocative cover by contributing poet Anna Couani, this is a book to treasure.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Leaving features poems mostly written in the past decade, covering the author’s move from the city to the country, new challenges, relationships, landscapes and loves. Poems written with humour and in sorrow, with joy and passion, with incredulity and awe. Sometimes clear-eyed and disturbingly real, sometimes utterly fantastic, containing portraits of painters and politicians, of children paddling canoes, of a doomed lyricist writing songs on the road, of a lover pleading with his girlfriend to stay, and finally of life in the shadow of Covid. Just one person’s life in the 21^st century.'  (Publication summary)