2025. 84pp. paperback. ISBN: 9781763735675.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical politics, lyrical intensity, and visionary imagination. Expelled from Oxford for atheism and estranged from his family, he led a life of rebellion and exile. Known as a radical agitator, apostle of free love, and a brilliant poetic innovator, his works include Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound, and The Mask of Anarchy.

This edition includes all the poems recommended by the VCAA for Year 12 VCE Literature.

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Shelley drowned in a storm off the coast of Italy in 1822 when his sailing boat sank during a voyage from Livorno to Lerici. The cover is taken from a painting by Louis Edouard Fournier, ‘The Funeral of Shelley’ that dramatizes the aftermath of his death.

Contents

The Mask of Anarchy
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
Song to the Men of England
A New National Anthem
Ode to the West Wind
Sonnet: England in 1819
The Indian Serenade
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci …
Love’s Philosophy
To a Skylark
Ode to Liberty
To Night
The Question
The flower that smiles today …

Marcus O’Donnell is having an exhibition of prints, which appear in the book After This

The adjacent possible: an exhibition by Marcus O’Donnell

Print Council of Australia Gallery
Studio 2, 152 Sturt Street, Southbank
13-31 October, Tuesday – Friday 9am -4pm
Opening celebration: 16 October 5-7pm
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After This by Marcus O’Donnell

A man honeymoons before leaving to fight in the First World War, a literature class for prisoners, unexpected meetings with long-lost loves … short stories and poems by Garry Kinnane that take in early and mid 20th century Australia, and on into the trials of ageing in the 21st. Ten stories, twenty poems – thirty pieces in all.

Garry Kinnane is the author of George Johnston: A Biography (winner of The Age Book-of-the-Year 1986) Colin Colahan: A Portrait, and the memoir trilogy, Shadowed Days.

Published by Rainshadow, an imprint of Clouds of Magellan Press.

Find online at Booktopia.

Also by Garry Kinnane from Clouds of Magellan Press:

Here is a poem from craft by Pete Haydon, published by Rainshadow (an imprint of Clouds of Magellan). craft is a book of poems about the making of boats, the losing of boats … poems that circle around small craft and the sea, with occasional forays into the darker deeps.

Feeling the curve

Nothing is straight, nor will be straight;
Design abhors a straightened line.
Draw it straight and life will curve it
Till it’s true, a true line.
A true line is sweet;
A sweet line is curved.
Feel its flank, 
a living thing,
That slips its subtle way
Through water’s almost nonsense,
Intuiting some meaning,
Held a flashing second,
Lost, recombined a million times
In the time it takes to tell.

Pete Haydon is a writer and musician. He is the author of the play The Crime of the Modern Mariner and lives in Aireys Inlet, Victoria.

Buy craft from Blarney Books, Booktopia

A great way to spend the Winter Solstice – 21 June at the Pride Centre with Q-Lit. Selling and giving away, creative conversations with emerging writers and passionate readers.