> >------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:01:59 +1100 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] (Australian Writing On Line) >Subject: AWOL: New Books From Five Island Press > >New titles from Five Island Press availabe through the AWOl Virtual >Bookshop. To order complete the order form at the end of this email. > > >LES WICKS >NITTY GRITTY >ISBN 0 86418 457 3 >Loosely assembled under the days of the week this book chronicles a >universal journey towards a hint of weekend peace. It's a vivid, inclusive >dance celebrating the lives of a range of characters from school kids to >parents, young graduates to carnival workers. >RRP $12.95 > >John Millett >Dragonfly Tie >ISBN 1 875604 54 4 >The last collection of poetry from the author of the award winning View >>From the Turret. >RRP $12.95 > >Kevin Brophy >Seeing Things >ISBN 0 86418 449 2 >Brophy's poems...outstare the icy blasts of inner suburban Melbourne's >cold, or evidence of the world's madness...they have wit and memorability >-Thomas Shapcott >RRP $12.95 > >Charlotte Clutterbuck >Soundings >ISBN 0 86418 453 0 >Childhood, migration, parenting, aging and loss: Clutterbucks embraces >these big, silent issues with openness and honesty. Her slowly gathered >work also reflects deep religious faith and is shot through with moments of >simple beauty. - Peter Boyle >RRP $12.95 > > >Coral Hull >Broken land: 5 Days in Bre 1995 >ISBN 0 86418 450 6 >Country towns - those least known places in our country - have their life >and lore mapped for them in Coral Hull's Bre. It is a desolation filled >with voices of patent authenticity, with generations of jokes and put >downs, epiphanies, hatred, stars, cattle and secret knowledge. Coral is >passionately and restlessly at home here. She has never written better. - >Judith Rodriguez. >RRP $12.95 > > >Marcella Polain >Dumbstruck >ISBN 1 875604 52 9 >Marcella Polain's first collection is one that matters. it is informed by a >deeply compassionate feminism, a marvelously dynamic imagination, a courage >to move beyond ready-made ideological mappings to a sheer verbal >inventiveness which, for me, makes practically every poem delivery a shiver >of utter recognition. - Marion Campbell > >Ludwika Amber >Our Territory >English/Polish Edition >ISBN 0 86418 448 4 >Australian poetry needs work of this stature, from a poet who sets about >defining traces of Eden which remain in the world, by naming them with such >loving skill..... - Bruce Dawe >RRP $12.95 > > >Postage and handling $2.00 for two books $5 for three to six books. If you >order all seven books then there is no charge for postage. > >International orders please email us your order and we well check postage costs. > >complete this order form and mail it with your checque to: >AWOL >PO Box 333 >Concord NSW 2137 > >Note: International orders please email your order and we will calculate costs. > >****************************************************************** > > >Name:................................................................. > > >Address:............................................................... > > >email: ................................................................. > > >Order > >Quantity > >__ LES WICKS NITTY GRITTY @ Aust$12.95 each _____ > >__ John Millett Dragonfly Tie @ Aust$12.95 each ____ > >__ Kevin Brophy Seeing Things @ Aust$12.95 each ____ > >__ Charlotte Clutterbuck Soundings @ Aust$12.95 each ____ > >__ Coral Hull Broken land: 5 Days in Bre 1995 @ Aust$12.95 each ____ > >__ Marcella Polain Dumbstruck @ Aust$12.95 each _____ > >__ Ludwika Amber Our Territory @ Aust$12.95 each _____ > >Postage >Postage and handling $2.00 for two books $5 for >three to six books. If you order all seven books >then there is no charge for postage. ______ > > > TOTAL ________ > > >*************************************************************************** > > > >Australian Writing On Line >Internet services, publicity, distribution >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~awol/ >[log in to unmask] >PO Box 333 >Concord NSW 2137 >Phone 015063970 >Fax 61 2 97472802 > > > > > >Mark Roberts SIS website: http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/sis/ >SIS Team >Building G05 Maze Crescent >University of Sydney >Phone 61 2 93517710 >Mobile 015063970 >Fax 61 2 93517711 > >** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** >Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and >human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. >** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%