101 Poems

RP 101 Poems (paperback)
RP 101 Poems (paperback)
B format 128 x 198 mm. 186 pages. Full colour cover.
978-1-922080-08-0
Price: A$32.00
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Ron Pretty’s new and selected collection, 101 Poems is published by Pitt Street Poetry. Pretty has been writing and publishing for over 50 years, and this new book contains a selection of the best poems from his eight earlier collections and five chapbooks, plus a selection of new poems. The concerns that motivated his earlier work are displayed here as the poems explore family, ethical and political issues, other cultures and our own, and music.
A summing up of a life’s work; this will be his last published collection.

101 Poems (2011-2021)

GP 101 Poems (2011–2021) (paperback)
GP 101 Poems (2011–2021) (paperback)
Paperback B format 128 x 198 mm. 208 pages. Full colour cover.
ISBN 978-1-922776-00-6.
Price: A$32.00
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Geoff Page’s contributions to the Australian poetry community span the country and the decades.
Twenty-four individual collections published over the last fifty years. Events, reviews, mentorships, jazz musings and a warm, benevolent influence which reaches out from Canberra to every corner of the national poetry landscape.

This selection of 101 Poems surveys some of his best poetry, from A Sudden Sentence in the Air (2011) to In medias res (PSP 2019), and offers as an encore nineteen new, previously uncollected poems, including ‘Jericho’ which won the ACU Poetry Prize in 2020.

Join us in celebrating Geoff Page as he enters his ninth decade, his witty, affable, insightful and singular voice honed to its finest edge.

101 Poems

AL 101 Poems (paperback)
AL 101 Poems (paperback)
Paperback B format 128 x 198 mm. 240 pages. Full colour cover.
ISBN 978-1-922080-62-2.
Price: A$32.00
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101 Poems

JF 101 Poems (paperback)
JF 101 Poems (paperback)
Paperback B format 128 x 198 mm. 186 pages. Monochrome cover.
ISBN 978-1-922080-64-6.
Price: A$32.00
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Released in 2016: 101 Poems and launched by Geoff Page in Canberra in November 2015, 101 Poems is the first in a new series of selected poems from Pitt Street Poetry which will bring together the best work of Australia’s leading poets as collectable, definitive editions.

Foulcher’s poetry is the paradigm of the poetry Pitt Street Poetry publishes: thoughtful, superbly crafted, witty, personal and profound. 101 Poems collects work published in nine collections over a thirty year period, from Light Pressure (1982) to The Sunset Assumption (2012).

“Voices have pierced the concrete,
they riddle me with memory.
She lies transfigured. I wait
and with my other hand reach up,
touch fingers wriggling from the slab.
Something is whispered. I remember tears, afternoons.
Soon there will be the night air,
the flashes of wind, cameras waiting
with my future. Though I have only this day, this moment.
I have raised my hand from black water,
I have felt the diminishing ripples
lapping at me. I have listened,
I have heard the quiet sentences.”