y separately published work icon Flying Islands Pocket Books of Poetry series - publisher   poetry  
Alternative title: Australian Pocket Poets; Pocket Poets Series
Issue Details: First known date: 2011-... 2011- Flying Islands Pocket Books of Poetry
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y separately published work icon Anyworld Pamela Brown , Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011 14760063 2011 selected work poetry Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon After Han Shan 讀寒山 Greg McLaren , Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011 14760264 2011 selected work poetry

'Greg McLaren's most recent book, After Han Shan and other poems (2012), draws in part from his long and ongoing engagement with the Chinese poetic tradition, and plays out a re-imagination of Han Shan's poems in an Australian cultural landscape, the NSW Hunter Valley Coalfields that McLaren grew up in.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Puncher & Wattman).

Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon The Beast Should Comply 野獸應該順從 Philip Hammial , Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011 14760481 2011 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon A Pocket Kit Christopher Kelen , Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011 Z1922770 2011 selected work poetry Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon Small Wonders 小小美 Anna Couani , Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011 6133932 2011 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon Seem 謝雅崙:似乎; Alan Jefferies : Seem Alan Jefferies , Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011 6156976 2011 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon Pocket Diary John Bennett , Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011 6157075 2011 selected work poetry Macao : Flying Island Books , 2011
y separately published work icon Exhibit 展覽 Judy Johnson , Macao Bulahdelah : China Assocation of Stories in Macao Flying Island Books , 2013 7525424 2013 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : China Assocation of Stories in Macao Flying Island Books , 2013
y separately published work icon The Language of Light 光之語 Jean Kent , Macao Bulahdelah : China Assocation of Stories in Macao Flying Island Books , 2013 7525474 2013 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : China Assocation of Stories in Macao Flying Island Books , 2013
y separately published work icon Mannequin’s Guide to Utopias 通往烏托邦的人偶指南 Dan Disney , Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books , 2013 9483976 2013 selected work poetry Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books , 2013
y separately published work icon Almost Everything I Know Suo zhi ji Mark Tredinnick , Isabelle Li (translator), Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2014 20971420 2014 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2014
y separately published work icon Fixing the Broken Nightingale Richard James Allen , Australia Macao : Flying Island Books , 2014 7091933 2014 selected work poetry Australia Macao : Flying Island Books , 2014
y separately published work icon Between Yes and No 是與非之間 Philip Salom , Iris Fan Xing (translator), Zijiang Song (translator), Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2014 8938328 2014 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2014
y separately published work icon Paint Peels, Graffiti Sings 油漆剝落, 塗鴉歌唱 Jan Dean , Ruby Chen (translator), Karen Kun (translator), Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2014 9067649 2014 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2014
y separately published work icon The Party of Life Beth Spencer , Ruby Chen (translator), Iris Fan Xing (translator), Macao : Flying Island Books , 2014 9101985 2014 selected work poetry Macao : Flying Island Books , 2014
y separately published work icon A Pocket Kit 2 Christopher Kelen , Macao : Flying Island Books , 2016 10040045 2016 selected work poetry Macao : Flying Island Books , 2016
y separately published work icon Yonder Blue Wild : Travel and Places : Poems 1972-2017 S. K. Kelen , Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2017 15509352 2017 selected work poetry Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2017
y separately published work icon Written on Water Gail Hennessy , Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books Cerberus Press , 2017 15509514 2017 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books Cerberus Press , 2017
y separately published work icon Intact Anne Walsh , Macao Bulahdelah : Cerberus Press Flying Island Books , 2017 15509546 2017 selected work poetry Macao Bulahdelah : Cerberus Press Flying Island Books , 2017
y separately published work icon A Chance of Seasons Rob Schackne , Bulahdelah area : Flying Island Books , 2017 16683835 2017 selected work poetry Bulahdelah area : Flying Island Books , 2017
y separately published work icon The Earth Here : Selected Early Poems Michael Brennan , Fei Chen (translator), Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2017 23859754 2017 selected work poetry Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2017
y separately published work icon Ill Lit Pop Toby Fitch , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2018 20971327 2018 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2018
y separately published work icon Belief Les Wicks , Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books Cerberus Press , 2019 15509394 2019 selected work poetry Bulahdelah Macao : Flying Island Books Cerberus Press , 2019
y separately published work icon The Icicle Tree : Poems Danny Gentile , Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2019 16987272 2019 selected work poetry Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2019
y separately published work icon Knitting Mangrove Roots Kerri Shying , Bulahdelah : Cerberus Press Flying Island Books , 2019 19054082 2019 selected work poetry Bulahdelah : Cerberus Press Flying Island Books , 2019
y separately published work icon The Earthing of Rain Susan Fealy , Iris Fan Xing (translator), Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019 20971198 2019 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019
y separately published work icon Not What You Think Clark Gormley , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019 20971238 2019 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019
y separately published work icon My Skin Its Own Sky Gillian Swain , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019 20971284 2019 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2019
y separately published work icon The Bread Horse Ross Donlon , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20970771 2021 selected work poetry

'The Bread Horse is a selection of poems from The Blue Dressing Gown and Lucidity, featuring both dark and comic poems inspired by his travels in Romania and Norway.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon A Ghost Gum Leans Over : Haiku and Senryu Myron Lysenko , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20970840 2021 selected work poetry

'Myron Lysenko’s ‘a ghost gum leans over’ is bigger than most haiku books being published today. The book is divided into sections or sequences, including his daughter’s battle with cancer spanning ten years;  a year where a relationship breaks down and splits a family in two; a section of light poems, another of heavy poems and one about Lysenko’s local area in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria. The sixth section consists of haiku written for special occasions.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon What's Left Steve Armstrong , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20970881 2021 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Foxline Chris Mansell , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20970916 2021 selected work poetry

'Foxline reconnoitres the relationship between the land and the creatures on it: Man (a farmer), and Fox. The relationship between the creatures themselves reveals their alien natures. Both claim the land for themselves but neither is autochthonous. They are opposed to each other but have an understanding and an alliance nevertheless because they both kill and have nowhere else.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Come the Bones Kate Rees , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20971002 2021 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Letters in Language Harold Legaspi , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20971028 2021 selected work poetry

'Letters in Language re-iterates what is possible in the prose poem and autography, and is intended to evoke cultural memory. The Tagalog (Filipino) mirroring the English translations are intended to provoke monolingual speakers to question, as it conveys Harold Legaspi’s identity, being bi-lingual, in a manner of speaking, to tell his story in a language he almost forgot through the migration process into Australia. By conveying meaning in two languages, his writing functions in the most concrete way, through exemplifying not abandoning the language that raised him in a land now foreign to him.'(Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Far and Wild Irina Frolova , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20971054 2021 selected work poetry

'This book speaks to the experience of immigration and a search for belonging. It explores the nature of language as performative of place and consciousness, and raises the question of gendered cultural othering: what is it like to navigate Russian identity as a woman in a western country? It examines the stereotype of a Russian bride, who is seen as both submissive and a threat.

'Far and Wild looks at archetypes through cultural and feminist lenses.'(Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Gravity Doesn't Always Work Robert Edmonds , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20971086 2021 selected work poetry Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Local Anna Couani , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 23718942 2021 selected work poetry

'local concerns itself with the local environment of the Glebe, an inner city suburb of Sydney and with other areas of the inner city. Some of the poems were written as part of 366 Poetry Project. It traces the author’s family history and connections to the inner city and also addresses issues of colonisation and the dispossession of indigenous people in Sydney. The book contains 13 artworks by the author.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021
y separately published work icon Chalk Borders Sarah St Vincent Welch , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23858984 2021 selected work poetry

'Sarah St Vincent Welch’s chalk borders is playful and soulful, and explores borders, frames and boundaries. chalk borders includes spare poems engaging with places from her #litchalk practice, where she chalks poems on the footpaths at art festivals in an ekphrasis of place, treating the whole environment as an artwork. These and longer poems engage with the tenuous lines drawn between art and life, the animate and inanimate, inside and outside, and present and past. chalk borders is inhabited by a love of existence and hope.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon A Kite Hangs above the Border Laurie Duggan , Chris Song (translator), Matthew Chen (translator), Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23859949 2021 selected work poetry Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon The Leaving Brian Purcell , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23860058 2021 selected work poetry

'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 21st century.'  (Publication summary)

Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon Pretend I Don't Exist Morgan Bell , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23862178 2021 selected work poetry Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon Short Bursts of Eternity Daniel Ionita , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23862393 2021 selected work poetry

'I will be home, or maybe not when you arrive.

The soup is in the empty fridge; just warm it up.

A ghost of lettuce and a spectre of some buttercup,

there should be something, maybe nothing, to contrive.

'Not much to do about that cough, should it persist,

and settle in the guest room, should it still exist.

Watch some TV, there’s nothing on unless there is,

and read this book with missing pages – hers and his.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon What the River Told Me Jane Skelton , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23862538 2021 selected work poetry

'Where is home? Where is my place? Would I feel at home in the place of my ancestors, or is my place this invaded, colonised country, where I’ve mostly lived? In these poems, I journey to Scotland, to the moors of Northumberland, seeking a genetic thread. I think I’ve found my people, ‘but it was only the whiskey’. Home again, through rivers, the lake and the sea. The dry bush, Queensland, are washed in images of water. I dig at the roots of colonisation, the blackbirder William Boyd, who left his mark on a coast that I love, a wild, quiet place with a violent history. A centre, a heart-place is identified, only to be devastated by fire and flood, the onslaught of climate change. Virginia Shepherd’s illustrations, her strange primordial fish, are a pause, a counterpoint, a reflection on nature and transience.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021
y separately published work icon Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2023 25655236 2023 selected work poetry

'Text Messages from the Universe was inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist text which guides souls on their 49-day transmigration through the ‘Bardo’, or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth. It immerses readers in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die. It imagines what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images which turn time and space on their heads.

'Text Messages from the Universe, the book, designed by Dylan Jones, includes images taken from the film of the same title by The Physical TV Company, and a front cover painting created especially for the occasion by Australian painter Michelle Hiscock, who similarly created the cover for Richard James Allen’s earlier volume with Flying Islands: Fixing the Broken Nightingale.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Alive in Dubbo David Grant Lloyd , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822407 2023 selected work poetry

'Alive in Dubbo is a collection of localised free verse. The poems are honest reflections, observational and personal depictions of life within an often-overlooked Australian community, serving both as individual snapshots and suggested chronicles of a larger narrative. Raw and sometimes confronting, illuminating and accessible, Alive in Dubbo offers a unique perspective of Australian culture and of existence itself.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Another Day Kevin Smith , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822469 2023 selected work poetry

'This collection of thirty-eight poems is a book in three parts: ElsewhereEverything is Evening; and Final Days. These are poems of an unrehearsed life, of paths taken and not taken, of lives not lived left behind, and the shadows they leave. Mostly, these poems were birthed by narrative, and deepened by the lyric, which, following Judith Beveridge in her essay ‘Lyric Poetry’, “seeks to communicate an experience to others” through “the wild and lovely agency of poems.” Smith’s hope is that these poems invite the reader in, and take them somewhere else, that they seek beyond what we see before us, toward what lies beneath. His hope, too, in Beveridge’s words, is for a “resonance and attunement” between reader and listener.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon FierCe Angie Contini , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822614 2023 selected work poetry

'fierce (adj, adv, verb, postmodern archetype, rite of passage, attitude, book title): an experimental miniature work of collage and poetry which bears witness to the lost difference between love and abuse, the impact of this loss as it permeates experiences of eco-despair, and the rites practised that reclaim the roar of empowerment.' (Publication summary)

Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Sea Skins Sophia Wilson , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822651 2023 selected work poetry ' Wilson’s Sea Skins explores the porous interfaces between personal, communal and environmental integrity. Slipping, sliding, going under and going overboard coexist with a determination to negotiate safe passage. Through the lenses of heritage, migration and ecological emergency, the collection shapeshifts and evolves to examine what is both cherished and damaged. ‘Sea skins’ are life’s fleeting flotsam and jetsam, teeth, tongue and bone amid dehumanising systems and alienating machines. They are word skins and survival skins, the diverse skins of sustainability and diplomacy, and ultimately, the tender under-skins at the heart of things.' (Publication summary)  Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Sunday Morning, Here Jill McKeowen , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822737 2023 selected work poetry 'Sunday Morning, Here is Jill McKeowen’s first collection of poetry, articulating an acceptance of impermanence and loss, and consequent arrival at a sense of identity and place. Moving from teenage years beside the “lapis-lazuli ocean” of the Central Coast of NSW to a last home in a post-industrial suburb of Newcastle, the poems record the details of very Australian lives, troublingly settled on “deeply storied ground” but blessed by childhood memories of a family with love behind its purpose (always). Beside an awareness of war and damage elsewhere, they celebrate the transfiguring possibilities of the everyday: the layers of the past in an old Swan teapot; the bits and pieces left in a dead father’s shed; the “pilgrimage of woodsmoke to the stars.' (Publication summary)  Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Urban & Landscape/Ordinary Lives Michael Crane , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 28136381 2023 selected work poetry “The book deals with city grit and with rural reminiscences – a poetry of real people – but mainly about relations among the typically nameless and unnoticed persons of everyday life. Michael doesn’t believe writers should be the heroes of their work and that most people are more interesting than him. So the third section does not feature the author and includes poems about other people. There are poems here ranging from a woman who leaves for Cuba, to a prisoner dealing with life and death.” --Publisher. Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Historic Present Andrew Burke , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 28136925 2023 selected work poetry “Historic Present presents a wide range of topics and vivid slices of the poet’s life – places and seasons and times of life – around Australia and around the world. Historic Present foregrounds corporeal concerns and intimations of mortality such as the title of the book may suggest. A fitting postscript to Burke’s 2020 New and Selected poems, Historic Present salutes some various personages in Australian poetry.” --Publisher. Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023
y separately published work icon Nibs and Nubs Josh Stenberg , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024 28136746 2024 selected work poetry '“nibs & nubs is a collection of stray words, yoked and reassembled into attractive shapes, tested for cadence and vowel roundness, and finally ornamented with late imperial birds. The poems are geographically distractable, addled with the mystique of etymology, and suspended between the lures of irony and the muted terrors of introspection. Here is a first collection that depict the years of lust and wanderlust as recollected and reorganised in slowly sobering afterlife.”' --Publisher. Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024
y separately published work icon City of the Sun = Місто Сонця Anastasia Radievska , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024 28137143 2024 selected work poetry “The City of the Sun is Flying Islands’ first Ukrainian-English poetry volume, and a first book of poetry by Ukrainian-Australian, Anastasia Radievska. [...] Presence is always ambiguous in The City of the Sun. Various literary/mythological presences carry us through the work, along with a series of monochrome wall plates by the author. The personal is always political in these pages and generally quirkily so. We’re always ending up where we neither would have expected nor would we have wished to be.” --Publisher. Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024
y separately published work icon Beautiful Flames Mark Mahemoff , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024 28137297 2024 selected work poetry ”Beautiful Flames, his sixth book-length collection, shows a poet at the top of their game. Mahemoff’s world of acute observation and insight combine melancholy and irony, the transcendent and everyday, in surprising combinations that thrill and entertain. Whether he is reflecting on family relationships, suburban streetscapes, or the rich complexity of the past, he always succeeds in finding a point of wonder that embodies the very essence of poetry.”--Publisher. Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2024

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