By Stuart Cooke, Bronwen Manger and Ouyang Yu
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Triptych Poets: Issue Two features the poetry of three diverse and unique Australian voices - Stuart Cooke, Bronwen Manger and Ouyang Yu.
From the dialectic travels of Stuart Cooke to the fresh, cosmopolitan brashness of Brownen Manager to the experimental poetic play of Ouyang Yu, Issue Two traverses a vast space of poetic styles and imagery, each as vivid as the next.
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By Nigel Featherstone
Fall on Me tells the story of Lou Bard, a single father and Launceston café owner whose world is turned upside down when his intelligent and provocative teenage son, Luke, decides to exhibit his body in an art installation.
Suddenly Lou is forced to revisit the dark secrets of his past, question what it means to be a good father, and discover that there's more love in his life than he could ever have imagined.
"Life-affirming, and very tender."
- Denise Young
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By Ray Liversidge, Hilaire and Mary Mageau
"Impressed with both the conceptualisation and the quality of this first issue of Triptych Poets, I'm anticipating the next. Kudos Blemish Books."
- Heather Taylor Johnson in Wet Ink, Issue 22.
"Triptych Poets presents three vividly different ways of looking at the world.
As in a painter's triptych, these three chapbooks discover continuities that combine to considerable effect."
- Geoff Page
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By Various
Caught in the Breeze is a collection of ten creative essays by new and established writers that interrogate the role of flags in contemporary Australia.
Entertaining, insightful and personal, these essays boldly explore the fascinating and often controversial connections between flags, identity and culture.
Contributors: Tony Burton, Stephen Hagan, Kathryn Hind, Karen Lethlean, Rachel Longhurst, Melissa Main, Edward Reilly, Dan Smith, Warwick Sprawson, Ben Wellings.
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