Five Islands Press

Invite: Michael Sharkey’s launch of Another Fine Morning in Paradise

mick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:09:58 +0000

… will be taking place at Collected Works Bookshop on the 15th of February.

Invite: Mal Mckimmie’s launch of The Brokenness Sonnets I-III & Other Poems

mick — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:25 +0000

… will be taking place on December 9th at the Wheeler Centre.

Lisa Jacobson,

lyn — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:30:42 +0000

whose verse novel, The Sunlit Zone, will be published by Five Islands Press in 2012, has just been awarded the Bruce Dawe National Poetry prize.

Mal McKimmie

lyn — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:29:09 +0000

Mal McKimmie’s book – The Brokenness Sonnets I-III is now available and will be launched in November 2011

The Brokenness Sonnetts I-III

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:56:01 +0000

Mal McKimmie’s [poems] knock the breath out of you… They are powerful works full of strange imagery and unusual juxtapositons… The Tau of Smoking points to McKimmie’s great skill in forging fresh meanings from his realignment of cliches and everyday sayings. McKimmie is insider and outsider, the watcher and the watched, with an uncanny ability to make the unworkable work. – Sandra Burr

Mal McKimmie

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:50:52 +0000

Mal McKimmie was born in Perth, Western Australia and lives in Melbourne. Positions he has been employed in include survey hand, deckhand, kitchen hand, vineyard labourer, fruit picker, poetry tutor and part-time ranger working with wild dolphines and visitors at an eco-tourist resort. He has also worked in welfare, with people labelled as having a ‘disability’ and people diagnosed as having a ‘mental illness’. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and have been broadcast by ABC Radio National on Poetica. His first volume of poetry, Poetleptic, was published by Five Islands Press in 2005.

uplands

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:22:34 +0000

“This book shines with a clear and sensitive intelligence. Crafted with utmost focus and care, the poems are resonant studies of shared ecologies, our relationships and responsibilities with nature and one another” – Peter Minter

Uncommon Light

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:21:45 +0000

Uncommon Light is a sustained challenge to the distinction St Augustine draws between the common light of everyday awareness and the uncommon light of God’s omniscience ‘the Light that made me’. It probes the ambiguities of perception, thought, belief and unbelief seeking to locate the transcendent within material and Darwinian bounds and to preserve lyric possibilities despite pervasive injustice.

Transit

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:20:30 +0000

In a combination of free and more formal verse, Transit deals with crossings and journeys through both place and time. Starting at dawn and moving to late-night poems, Mike Ladd observes key transitional moments in life.

The Last Tourist

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:19:16 +0000

The intensity with which Jane Williams conducts both inventory & itinerary causes the familiar to teeter on the brink of its opposite – the same dynamic in which objects of apparent sacrilege reveal the sacred. The Last Tourist memorably returns soul to the occupants, acts & things of the world often jettisoned by serious poetry. And, emphatically, this is serious poetry. – Kris Hemensley