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Poetical Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 …

Thirty Pieces: Stories and Poems by Garry Kinnane

ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-7637356-4-4 | ISBN (hardback) 978-1-7637356-3-7

Thirty Pieces. 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 Sunlight (includes Shadowed Days, Fare Thee Well Hoddle Grid, and Time of Arrival).

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Champagne at Three: The Story of a Trans Mining Engineer by Jill Blee

ISBN: 978-1-7637356-1-3.

Having lived the first half of her life as male, Rebecca Norton sought medical intervention to become a woman, only to find that those whose support she longed for could not, or would not give it. Born in Ballarat, her career took her from the mining industry in Mount Isa to a range of jobs in remote parts of Australia and the world.

Jill Blee was educated at Sacred Heart College, Ballarat. She completed a Diploma in Applied Chemistry at the Ballarat School of Mines. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University in 1990 followed by a Master of History while at the same time completing  a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Western Sydney (1995). In 1999 she returned to Ballarat to complete a PhD at Ballarat University, now Federation University, on the Irish in Ballarat in the Gold Rush Era.  She is the author of the historical novel The Pines Hold Their Secrets, The Liberator’s Birthday, and her semi-biographical novel, Brigid, as well as writing several commissioned histories. She still teaches history.

Contact: jillblee1@gmail.com

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Craft by Pete Haydon

ISBN 978-0-6486361-8-2 (hbk). 2024. POETRY

56 pp., hardback with dust jacket, colour illustrations

Poems for those who go down to the sea in boats. The making of boats. The losing of boats. Poems that contain splinters, sanding, swearing and celebration; poems that circle around small craft and the sea, with occasional forays into the darker deeps.

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.

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Texere by Gerald Frape

ISBN: 978-0-6457328-3-2 (pbk) 2024 POETRY
ISBN: 978-0-6457328-4-9 (hbk)

Texere is a selection of twenty years of existential observations on love, death, life, place and impermanence.

‘In this impressive collection Gerald Frape’s sharp intellect and passionate concern for a wide range of issues and experience, both public and private, are expressed in poems that exhibit a unique mix of intensity and playfulness. The meditative, the lyrical, the urgently searching – even a hint of rap – it’s all here. In a tour de force of exploratory wordplay, notes of lament and accusation and humour accumulate and weave together. ‘Texere’ is a Latin word – ‘to weave or construct with elaborate care’. Texere is a beautifully appropriate title for this engrossing book.’  Ross Gillett

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