y separately published work icon Rare Object Series series - publisher   poetry  
Alternative title: Vagabond Press Rare Object Series
Issue Details: First known date: 1999-... 1999- Rare Object Series
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'... Vagabond Press started with the Rare Object Series in July 1999, publishing two small chapbooks of poetry by David Brooks and Nick Riemer. More than a decade later the series is still going strong and has emerged as an iconic publishing venture in Australian poetry, bringing together the key emerging and established Australian poets at the turn into the twenty-first century, and being remarkable for the quality of the work published and the design and production values. Originally based on a combination of the design values of French press Fata Morgana and Neil Astley's beautiful Poetical Histories series, the Rare Objects are remarkable for the cover art produced by Kay Orchison, exquisitely conceived and designed in response to each poet's work. The chapbooks are printed in limited editions of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. ...' (Vagabond Press website)

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  • Rare Objects Series - attractive A5 publications, 12-16 pages long, printed on recycled, acid-free paper in a limited run of 100 signed and numbered copies.

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y separately published work icon The Dead David Brooks , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z812117 1999 single work prose Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Falling Objects Nick Riemer , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z669027 1999 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Nineteen Songs Kevin Hart , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z998417 1999 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Mischief-Birds i "On death row - or visiting a skyscraper -", M. T. C. Cronin , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z1120416 1996 single work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Late News Vivian Smith , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z956912 2000 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Perhaps After All Noel Rowe , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z1196241 2000 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Dwelling in the Shape of Things Nicolette Stasko , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z856236 1999 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Everything Falls In Greg McLaren , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z918797 2000 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Counter-Pastoral John Kinsella , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z956941 1999 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Erosions Louis Armand , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z956935 1999 single work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Return to a New Physics Kate Fagan , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z894879 2000 sequence poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Morning, Hyphen Peter Minter , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z1288753 2000 selected work poetry

“The work in Morning, Hyphen continues the fuzzy logic, the ready-or-not intelligence of his poetry that could appear impatient if it were not for the generosity of his language and of his sharing of their subject matter. He has a particular use of italics, line breaks within words, playces that could appear as misprints except you know he is too deliberate and precise. Peter Minter continues fabricating the body from experience, travelling the layers beneath the skin, poeming with syntax and meaning.- Angela Gardner' (Source: Peter Minter website)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Je Ne Sais Quoi Zan Ross , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z1436999 2000 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Drifting Topoi Pamela Brown , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000 6904804 2000 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Ex Opere Operato Tracy Ryan , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z968167 1999 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Auto One Philip Hammial , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2003 Z1151077 2003 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2003
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y separately published work icon Madonna i "Some rich black hair hangs idly over her left breast", Kevin Hart , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 1999 Z998484 1999 single work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 1999
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y separately published work icon Acceptance of Silent Waters Peter Boyle , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z1092528 2000 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Living at the Z Michael Farrell , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000 Z902069 2000 single work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2000
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y separately published work icon Impermanence.com Adam Aitken , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004 Z1222629 2004 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon Peregrine Judith Beveridge , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z1929340 2001 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Super-Regional Keri Glastonbury , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z978623 2001 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Return to Kerguelen Peter Porter , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z1928919 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Bloom Michelle A. Taylor , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z1496300 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon The Main North Road Aidan Coleman , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002 Z1175498 2002 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002
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y separately published work icon Comets Dorothy Porter , 1998 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 8 1998; (p. 24-30) Other Worlds : Poems 1997-2001 2001; (p. 3-13) The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter 2013; (p. 51-56) Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon The Entire History of Architecture and Other Love Poems Luke Davies , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z819550 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Fat Bad Plan Elena Knox , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002 Z1142720 2002 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002
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y separately published work icon The Empty Room Ed Wright , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002 6904922 2002 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002
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y separately published work icon Water Roars, Illusions Burn Kerry Leves , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002 6905092 2002 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2002
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y separately published work icon Horizon Ken Bolton , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z823126 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon War is Not the Season for Figs Lidija Cvetkovic , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z823140 2001 selected work poetry This volume of multicultural writing contains some 33 short poems, several of which were published during the preceding decade. Arranged under three thematic headings - Reliable Magic, The Process of Separation and Luminous - the poems often feature reflections of a single persona. Youthful memories of family life, marital and unrequited love in the Balkan motherland are recalled and circumscribed by the aftermath of recent civil strife and war. Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Wet Robot Ted Nielsen , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z823143 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon Said to Be Standing Bonny Cassidy , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 Z1781906 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Hotel Bone Samuel Wagan Watson , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001 Z823151 2001 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2001
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y separately published work icon November Burning Alison Croggon , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2004 Z1929343 2004 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon Anagoge of Fire Javant Biarujia , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004 6903053 2004 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon The Brewery Site : Six Poems John Mateer , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004 Z1239906 2004 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon Poems January-August 2004 Dorothy Porter , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004 Z1299285 2004 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon Fold Unfold Jill Jones , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005 Z1217726 2005 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005
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y separately published work icon Dark Retreat Kevin Hart , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005 6903177 2005 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005
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y separately published work icon Forgetful Hands Elizabeth Allen , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005 6903258 2005 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005
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y separately published work icon Long Shadows : Haiku Jane Gibian , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005 Z1728671 2005 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2005
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y separately published work icon After Kandinsky Katherine Gallagher , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2005 Z1251581 2005 selected work poetry Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2005
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y separately published work icon Listening To Yu Ouyang , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006 Z1337055 2006 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006
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y separately published work icon Nicked Chris Edwards , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006 6621611 2006 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006
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y separately published work icon Touching the Hem Noel Rowe , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006 Z1411725 2006 sequence poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2006
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y separately published work icon Language Habits Michael Brennan , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007 6905539 2007 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007
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y separately published work icon N'ombre Claire Potter , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007 Z1899455 2007 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007
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y separately published work icon Morgenland David Prater , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007 6903292 2007 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2007
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y separately published work icon Felt Johanna Featherstone , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 Z1827604 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Everyday Static Toby Fitch , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 Z1820215 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Red Trees Peter Skrzynecki , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 6903814 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Kami Ali Cobby Eckermann , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 6906712 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Great Southern Jen Jewel Brown , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 6903758 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Corrosions Stuart Cooke , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 Z1857955 2010 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon Connection Requital Lionel Fogarty , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 6903339 2010 selected work poetry

'A Murri man, Lionel Fogarty is a poet and activist. His first collection of poems, Kargun, was published in 1980, and he has since published eight further collections, including Dha’gun Jabree Djan Mitti andYerrabilela Jimbelung: Poems about Family and Friends. Fogarty has also published a children’s book, Booyooburra, a traditional Wakka Wakka story. Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, particularly in southern Queensland, from the Land Rights movement, to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services, to the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody – Fogarty’s brother, Daniel, died in police custody in 1993.' (Source: Publisher's website)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010
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y separately published work icon The Feral Aphorisms Luke Davies , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 6904101 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon At Marcoola Thomas Shapcott , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 6903870 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon The Curse Words Samuel Wagan Watson , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 Z1800991 2011 selected work poetry lyric/song Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Career Liam Ferney , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 Z1801004 2011 selected work poetry It is the story of an English teacher marooned in the outer suburbs of Seoul during the 2002 world cup. It is a tale of typhoons, late night bars, cab rides and thwarted love. Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Seastrands Felicity Plunkett , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 6904182 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Evental Ali Alizadeh , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 Z1896193 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Me 'n' Me Trumpet Justin Clemens , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 6904127 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Exile Triptych Kris Hemensley , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011 6903977 2011 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2011
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y separately published work icon Beastly Eye Debbie Lim , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 Z1931000 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Marionette : Notes Toward the Life and Times of Miss Marion Davies Jessica Wilkinson , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6067745 2012 selected work poetry

'The poems within marionette: notes toward the life of miss marion davies are drawn from my longer poetic biography of the early cinema actress, who was the long-time lover of millionaire media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Marion's silencing by the early cinema screen provides a powerful metaphor for her subsequent ‘silencing’ by Hearst, who largely controlled her career and—as much as he could—her actions in public. Marion’s story is marked by whispers, gossip, rumors, lies, and plot holes. marionette is an attempt to enact and recover Marion’s playful voice and spirit.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Aftermarks Judith Bishop , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 Z1931003 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Night Birds Michelle Cahill , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6621581 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon The Doon Nick Whittock , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904305 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Gargantuan Terrier, Buggy or Dinghy Corey Wakeling , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904374 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon The Family Idiot Fiona Hile , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 Z1899356 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Gameshow. Gameshow Eddie Paterson , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904346 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Senses Working Out Jill Jones , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904454 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Year, Elegy Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904499 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Beheld Niobe Syme , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904213 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Don Juan Variations S. K. Kelen , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904275 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Imitation Era James Stuart , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6156920 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Green Thought - Green Shade : A Sabbatical Set Christopher Kelen , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904404 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Under Rats Nicolette Stasko , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904476 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon Chooks Adrian Wiggins , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012 6904239 2012 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2012
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y separately published work icon One that Made it Alike Astrid Lorange , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 Z1933271 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Tidemark Jane Gibian , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 Z1933284 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Departure into Cloud Stuart Cooke , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 Z1933233 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Stages of Balthazar L. K. Holt , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 Z1933281 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon November Already Adam Aitken , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 5988272 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Living Things : Five Poems Martin Harrison , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 5988206 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Sky News David Malouf , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 5988228 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Empty Your Eyes Robert Adamson , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 5988250 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon 10 Sonnets John Tranter , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6696537 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Realia Kate Lilley , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6704085 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon The Tulip Beds A. J. Carruthers , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6704184 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Elegant Ania Walwicz , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6847513 2013 selected work poetry

'Elegant flight of language, theatre of my head, enactment, i never end, action, re-enactment, this can be done again and again and again, the loopy loop, sharp piercing, a sign, an elegant outfit.' (Publisher's blurb)

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y separately published work icon Maps, Cargo Bella Li , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6847452 2013 selected work poetry

'Maps, Cargo is a compendium of imagined and historical geographies, inhabited by explorers, ships, roads and rooms.' (Publisher's blurb)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon The Violence of Waiting Jennifer Maiden , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6704125 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Things That Year Mark Mordue , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014 7555972 2014 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014
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y separately published work icon Dairy Farm Joel Scott , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014 7556010 2014 selected work poetry

'The poems in DIARY FARM are cells in a dispersed field spanning Berlin and Sydney. The experiences in them are scattered; patterns of distracted consciousness. The dispersion occurs through bodies, hearts, language(s), boats. News and political disaster sprayed through the feed channels and coughed back up, rearranged around the space of the page.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014
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y separately published work icon Luminous Alias Emma Lew , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6902810 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013
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y separately published work icon Maze Bright Jaya Savige , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014 7555896 2014 selected work poetry

'In the 1940s, behavioural psychologists and developmental biologists working in the nascent field of epigenetics coined the term “maze-bright” to describe laboratory rats displaying a marked proficiency in maze navigation. Since then, the term has been deployed across a range of contexts, most notably in HR parlance to describe ‘attractive hires’.

This suite of poems seizes on the semantic pluripotency of its titular motif, transposing it into the early twenty-first century cultural keys of gaming (“パックマン Étude”), cinema (“Magic Hour, LA”, “Cinemetabolic”), finance and insurance (“To His Coy Investor”, “Act of God”), extreme sports (“Wingsuit Journal”), psychogeography (“Citicity”), post-colonial deracination (“Nick Cave at Buckingham Palace”) and others.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2014
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y separately published work icon Public Private J. S. Harry , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 6700228 2013 selected work poetry Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013

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Six at Once Pamela Brown , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , May-July no. 4 2012;
Six at Once: Pam Brown Launches the Latest Vagabond Press Rare Object Series Pamela Brown , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , August-October no. 5 2012;
Six at Once Pamela Brown , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , May-July no. 4 2012;
Six at Once: Pam Brown Launches the Latest Vagabond Press Rare Object Series Pamela Brown , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , August-October no. 5 2012;
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