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PAISIO, Franco

Sep 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry, Sydney

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ISBN 978-1-923265-35-6
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Bone and Marrow-Deep

Bone and Marrow-Deep is a collection of mainly recent poems, taut, lyrical, and short. Dealing with the passing of time, loss of memory, and old age reveries. Poems, in their simplicity, exploring both the complexities and caprices of existence. Poems in search of clarity, in search of things indecipherable. Paisio shows once again in these brief verses, that even if he deems existence superfluous, and unjustifiable, he is enamoured with the magnificent, wondrous, unique, and unrepeatable adventure that life is.

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Franco Paisio was born in Milan in 1936. He is an artist and poet who studied painting, sculpture, and ceramics in Italy and Australia. He had numerous solo exhibitions both in Australia and Europe. His works are held in many national, corporate, and private collections. Franco has given numerous poetry readings, and from 1975 to 1985 was a contributing editor of “Aspect”, the now defunct Sydney-based art and literature magazine. He lives and works in contemplative solitude in Sydney, Australia.

WILLIAM, Curtis

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry

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ISBN 978-1-923265-42-4
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All My Bad Habits

 

Poetry

Dive into the raw, unfiltered world of All My Bad Habits. This is a collection all about the chaos and beauty of going through the waves and motions of this crazy, beautiful and complicated world. Whether it’s falling in love so hard you feel your bones crack on the sidewalk
or realising you have an inner child who’s wounds need your attention. Along the way we pick up habits that are a product of this profound, beautiful and utterly scary experience of growing up as a young adult. The people that come through the doors of our life come in so many unexpected forms, and he would change everything.

Join the club and witness the weave of words with a deft hand, exploring themes of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. This collection is a testament to the power of vulnerability, capturing the essence of our most intimate flaws and the redemptive beauty found within
them. Bold, introspective, and profoundly honest, All My Bad Habits is a journey through the heart’s darkest corners and back into the light.

WATSON, Michael

Aug 7, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Melbourne, Poetry, Victoria

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WITHOUT ANGELS

 

prose and poems

Without Angels is a series of small prose pieces written over the years since retiring in 1996.
It covers personal memories and observations of daily life.

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Michael Watson was born in 1942 in Melbourne.
After dropping out of High School he spent some years in farms around Victoria and New South Wales as a Jackeroo before returning to study at the age of 20. He completed a first class honours degree in Science at Monash University and went on to study for an MA at Princeton, New Jersey in 1967. The he met Nadine in 1969, whom he married in 1970. They have two children, Anne and David, and five grandchildren, Doug, Jack, Charlie, Juliette and Olivier.

PEDRANA, Michael

Aug 5, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923156-72-2
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black sheep poems

dear reader,

we are strangers you and i me a farmer of words all tangled from the violent paddock and criminal path of my broken existence and you searching for the escape only poems can give in between the humdrum and echo of your routine life i pity you as i pity me we never asked for words to undo this noose where we search for meanings to carry us from time i give to you the untamed weather inside the painted word drawings of my heart and you opening up this book allow me to exist

dear reader

i thank you for that for here i ask you to read this unrehearsed broken tune of poems from your heart (where true thoughts are made) while casting your anchor outside the deaf and desolate unreachable sharpness that limps your routine i do not require your like or dislike of my melted tune
here is no audience i seek dear reader only hands to open the vault of this book where now i breathe dear reader we are strangers you and i.

About the Author

At 12 Mike Pedrana wanted to be a poet. ‘It’s not just the poetry but the poets themselves I could relate to. The more I read about them, their genius, their madness, their poverty, their escapisms, their exile, and their suicides, the more I knew I was one.

Anyone can write a poem. But not everyone is a Poet’. (Phone Interview | Roebourne Prison 1991)

MAZZONE, Larissa

May 30, 2024 | *Featured books, Adelaide, Poetry, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-92315-68-9
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When Venus Met Mars

When girl met boy and fell in love.

A collection of poems written about a very special person.

You’ll be greater than a Da Vinci painting
The biggest mystery in history.
The world will no longer ask why
Mona Lisa is smiling.
But instead,
who is the man behind all of the poetry?