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Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
Par Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Book of longing
Par Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.A wild peculiar joy: selected poems, 1945-89 (The Modern Canadian poets)
Par Irving Layton. 1989
19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
Par Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.The merry heart: selections 1980-1995
Par Robertson Davies. 1996
A collection of Robertson Davies' reflections on books, reading, and writing. These essays, book reviews, and other writings, taken from…
a selection which he had planned to publish before his death, reveal Davies at his vintage best. 1996.The tent
Par Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays: And Other Essays (Vintage international)
Par Albert Camus. 1991
In the title essay, the French philosopher and writer develops an affirmative attitude towards life, even though life is regarded…
as meaningless and absurd. The other essays also deal with the theme of affirmation in the face of absurdity. 1991. Uniform title: Mythe de Sisyphe.The last Canadian poet: an essay on Al Purdy
Par Sam Solecki. 1999
This study takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy…
archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. Suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. Some strong language. 1999.Locomotion
Par Jacqueline Woodson. 2003
When Lonnie Collins Motion - Locomotion - was seven years old, his life changed forever, and now at eleven, his…
life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn't so bad after all. Grades 4-7. 2003.Collected poems
Par Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite. 1989
This collection of over 200 poems was written between 1938 and 1983. It includes 83 poems, covering every period of…
Larkin's career, which have not been previously published. 1989. Uniform title: PoemsChambre minimum: poésie
Par Frédéric Dumont. 2022
Une autobiographie ratée ? Je suis trop jeune de toute façon. Le présent, mais contaminé par des souvenirs réels et…
inventés. Une histoire ? Petites histoires, poèmes, vie, mort, enfant, adulte, enfant, adulte, argent, pas d'argent. Intérieur, extérieur. Tout cohabite, internet, un imaginaire obsédé par les cercles et la mort et cela s'explique peut-être par mes longues promenades circulaires à Longueuil. J'aime vivre aussi. Vraiment beaucoup. Je cherche encore mon rythme, je cherche dans mes poches, il me reste un vingt, j'ai dix doigts, des jambesCollected poems of Robert Service
Par Robert W Service. 1940
Mouron des champs: suivi de Ce peu qui nous fonde (Poésie)
Par Marie-Hélène Voyer. 2022
Mouron des champsdit l'histoire de vies dures et empêtrées, de destinéesde filles de fermiers, de pauvresses du bout du rang,…
de mères travailleuses infatigables aux désirs corsetés. Revitalisant brillamment le vocabulaire des parlers populaires, Marie-Hélène Voyer fouille les lieux de vie familiaux où se resserrent l'emprise de la domesticité et la violence de la contention. Cette poésie profonde et tassée comme un pain de mie porte la voix des mortes et met en lumière les encagements du passéWhere the outback drovers ride: stories, poems and yarns from the bush
Par Bruce Simpson. 2005
In the first half of the 20th century, packhorse drovers - following in the footsteps of the early overlanders -…
took on the challenge of moving enormous numbers of cattle many thousands of kilometres across the country. They overcame extraordinary natural hazards and the tyranny of distance that stood between the far-flung stations and the markets. This evocative collection of outback folklore, poetry and true accounts paints a colourful picture of a variety of characters who thrived in an environment where guts and self-reliance were essential for survival. Bruce Simpson was an outback drover up until the 1960s and is one of a few bushmen with the eloquence to relate his personal experiences in literary form. "Where The Outback Drovers Ride" brings together two of his most popular works, "Packhorse Drover" and "Hell, Highwater & Hard Cases".How to be alone
Par Jonathan Franzen. 2002
A collection of fourteen essays from the author of The Corrections. Although the subjects range from the sex-advice industry to…
the way a super-max prison works, each piece wrestles with essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistance of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include an essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of the author's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey writer.Contents: My Father's Brain -- Imperial Bedroom -- Why Bother? -- Lost in the Mail -- Erika Imports -- Sifting the Ashes -- The Reader in Exile -- First City -- Scavenging -- Control Units -- Books in Bed -- Meet Me in St. Louis -- Inauguration Day, January 2001.The best Australian essays 2012
Par Ramona Koval. 2012
The Best Australian Essays 2012 presents the country's most eloquent voices at the peak of their powers. Helen Garner, Anna…
Krien and Romy Ash discuss animals; David Marr, Rhys Muldoon and James Button discuss those of the political variety. Peter Robb meets Akira Isogawa, J.M. Coetzee considers Les Murray's black dog, and Gillian Mears her award-winning novel.John Bryson reflects on the drawn-out, unnecessary agony of the Azaria case. With humour, Louis Nowra walks in the shadow of death, while Lee Kofman's teenage passions unfurl in a time of war. There's Andrew Ford on John Cage, Maria Tumarkin on food, Clive James on Pauline Kael, and Nick Bryant on Gina Rinehart. These are essays full of insight and wit, on the subjects that moved us in 2012.The best Australian essays 2009
Par Robyn Davidson. 2009
This year's Best Australian Essays ranges far and wide. There are portraits of Michael Jackson, Samuel Beckett, the kookaburra, Julia…
Gillard and Charles Darwin. There are dazzling pieces on commerce and cricket, extinction and translation, perfume and politics. There are journeys through landscapes scorched and recovering, and reflections on turning points both public and deeply personal. For Robyn Davidson, the best essays 'put oneself and the world to the test.' Here is a collection of pieces that do just that - and also entertain, inspire and provoke. Contributors include: David Sedaris, Tim Flannery, Tim Winton, Annabel Crabb, Chloe Hooper, David Marr, Drusilla Modjeska, JM Coetzee, Noel Pearson, Robert Dessaix and more.The best Australian essays 2008
Par David Marr. 2008
It was the year of Wall Street’s collapse and Australia’s apology, of a film-world tragedy and an art-world scandal. In…
Best Australian Essays 2008, David Marr has selected great writing from a turbulent time. With eyewitness accounts from crisis zones and film sets, deserts and campaign trails, and tales of failing banks and wounded birds, hitchhiking and footy jumpers, mourning brothers and raising children, music, media, art, love and obscenity, these wonderful essays paint a vivid picture of the year that was.The best Australian essays 2010
Par Robert Drewe. 2010
This year's Best Australian Essays offers riveting snapshots of the nation's "current loves and angers, its art and myths and…
amusements and gender concerns - and its propensity for bushfires." From Alex Miller on the creative imagination to Mark Dapin on crime myths, from Amanda Hooton on Miss Universe to Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, this is a collection that takes the pulse of the nation's writers and thinkers and finds them in rude health. A deeply satisfying collection for that long summer read. Contributors include: Clive James, Christine Kenneally, Shane Maloney, David Marr, Mark Dapin, Andrew Sant, Guy Rundle, Peter Conrad, Jo Lennan, Tim Flannery, Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Ian Henderson, Amanda Hooton, Anne Manne, Elizabeth Farrelly, David Brooks, Sunil Badami, Les Murray, Janet Hawley, David Malouf, Shelley Gare, Paul McGeough, Murray Bail, Kathy Marks, Alex Miller, Melissa Lucashenko, Lorna Hallahan, Pauline Nguyen, Carmel Bird, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Sarah Drummond, Gerard WindsorThe best Australian essays 2014
Par Robert Manne. 2014
‘Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some…
essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinching.’ - Robert Manne. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot their origins; Tim Flannery traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears its destruction. With essays traversing madness, liberty under the rule of Tony Abbott, the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy.