ISLAND PRESS
Publishing fine Australian poetry and other interests.
Probably the oldest still-operating poetry
press in Australia, Island Press continues to publish cutting edge work from
across the country.
Titles can be ordered. Cheques should be
made payable to Island Press and sent to 29 Park Rd, Woodford NSW 2778
Australia.
All prices are in Australian dollars.
1970 - the present
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Editor |
Author |
Title |
Year |
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P. Roberts |
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Poet's Choice |
1971 – 1978 |
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The Last Poet's Choice |
1979 |
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Kevin
Gilbert |
End of a Dream Time |
1971 |
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Philip
Roberts |
Crux |
1973 |
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Martin Johnston |
Modern Greek Poets |
1973 |
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Robert
Adamson |
Swamp Riddles |
1973 |
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Andrew
Huntley |
Minor Pageant |
1977 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Chemical Cart |
1977 |
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Keith
Shadwick |
Windows & Mirrors |
1978 |
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Michael
Witts |
Sirens |
1978 |
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P. Hammial
& P. Roberts |
Ken Bolton |
Blond & French |
1978 |
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Philip
Roberts J.S. Harry |
Selected Poems Hold, for a little while &
turn gently |
1978 1979 |
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Andrew
Taylor |
The Crystal Absences |
1979 |
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Kris
Hemensley |
A Mile from Poetry |
1979 |
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P. Hammial |
John Tranter |
Dazed in the Ladies Lounge |
1979 |
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Denis
Gallagher |
Country Country hc $125 pb $95 |
1979 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Swarm |
1979 |
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Anthony
Mannix |
Erotomania |
1984 |
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J.S. Harry |
A Dandelion for Van Gogh |
1985 |
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Adam Aitken |
Letter to Marco Polo $25.00 |
1985 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Squeeze |
1985 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Vehicles (art by A. Mannix) |
1985 |
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Les Wicks |
Tickle $15.00 |
1993 |
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Jutta
Sieverding |
Uneasy Weather $15.00 |
1993 |
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Martin
Langford |
Great Wall of Instinct 16.95
(via site15.00) |
1993 |
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Leith Morton |
The Flower Ornament * |
1993 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Just Desserts $15.00 |
1995 |
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Carolyn
Gerrish |
Learning to Breathe Under Water $12.95
(via site $10) |
1995 |
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Marcelle Freiman Barbara Petrie Lizz Murphy Martin
Langford Martin
Langford Philip
Hammial Rob Riel Carolyn
Gerrish Leith Morton Lizz Murphy |
Monkey's Wedding $13.00 Farrow Night Pearls and Bullets $10 In the Cage of Love’s Gradings $16.95
(via site $15) Be Straight with Me 16.95
(via site15.00) In the Year of Our Lord
Slaughter’s Children 16.95 (via site12.00) Rogue Perspectives Dark Laughter$17(via
site $12) At the Hotel Zudabollo 16.95
(via site12.00) Stop Your Cryin 18.00, via Site $15.00 |
1995 1997 1997 1997 2000 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 |
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Philip
Hammial |
Voodoo Realities $18.95, via Site $15.00 |
2005 |
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Martin
Langford Jutta
Sieverding Philip
Hammial David Brooks Philip
Hammial Philip
Hammial |
Microtexts $21.95 (via site $20) A Dangerous
Place $18.95,
Site $15.00 Sugar Hits$18.95, Site $15.00 Urban Elegies 19.95 Juggernaut $18.95, Site $15.00 Wig Hat On |
2005 2005 2006 2007 2007 2008 |
*many out of print
ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE
Some comments on Island
books:
Urban Elegies, David Brooks, $!9.95
"I read Urban Elegies right through in one
sitting. There was a suspense in what the next page might hold, and on the way
to the end of the book, I encountered the best and most uplifting poetry that I
have experienced in years." Robert Adamson
Voodoo Realities, Philip Hammial $18.95, Site $15.00
"Hammial's technique - in terms of language
and structures - is astonishing: he leads us to believe that truth can be
spoken."
Judges' comments, 2001 NSW Premier's Literary
Awards
a dangerous place, Jutta Sieverding
“The poems are sharp, direct and understated, with a restraint that
suggests more than it says. There is an edginess and insight into the unstated
or buried, the beneath the surface of life; a tension between quiet observance
and angry, rebellious participation.”
Brook Emery
Microtexts,
Martin Langford
"a collection
of aphorisms and condensed argument about poetry and poetics"
Sugar Hits, Philip Hammial $18.95, Site $15.00
"His work deserves a place at the front of any
future anthology of language-based writing as a significant precursor and major
practitioner." John Hawke
Juggernaut, Philip Hammial $18.95, Site $15.00
"Hammial lived Blade Runner before the movie
was made." Adam Aitken
Dark Laughter , Carolyn Gerrish
continues her ironic/lyrical exploration of the
self and contemporary culture.
Monkey’s Wedding, Marcelle
Freiman $13
“The poetry becomes a way of gaining focus, balancing diverse
elements,fashioning something aesthetically beautiful, emotionally sharp out of
human experiences.” Peter Boyle
Stop Your Cryin Lizz Murphy $18
"… a talent for expression in a distinctive
and variable voice …" API Review
In the Cage Of Love's Gradings , Martin
Langford, $16.95 (via site $15)
"a quite different touch and voice in
Australian poetry" Jack Bedson
Pearls & Bullets, Lizz Murphy
“...arrestingly
simple and yet profoundly memorable...” The Canberra Times
Uneasy Weather, Jutta Sieverding
“The style is
spare and succinct, the language unadorned yet assured in its effect… These are
poems of understatement, which reach their point of revelation with an enviable
economy of words.” Judith Beveridge
Tickle, Les Wicks $13.00
“...personal & engaging, accessible & immediate.” Warwick Wynne, Aust. Book Review
Be Straight With Me, Martin Langford, $16.95 (via site $15)
" at its best, equal to anything now being
written in Australia" Brian Purcell
Letter to Marco Polo, Adam Aitken $25
“nuanced textures of meaning that pull you inside
the words rather than merely to them…consistently remakes the language on the
page” - JA Wainwright, Antipodes
Blond & French, Ken Bolton
“amply
repays the debt to O'Hara &, through him, to Apollinaire" David Malouf
Country country, Denis Gallagher
" ...
the sort of conversational ease most of us sadly lack except in
talking." Carl Harrison-Ford
ISLAND PRESS CO-OPERATIVE: A
HISTORY
Island Press was founded in 1970 by
Canadian poet, musician and Sydney University lecturer Philip Roberts. He lived
on Scotland Island at that time, hence the name. In 1973 Philip moved to
Bundeena. The first ten Island Press books were printed on expensive paper on
an old hand-operated press, with hand-set lead type. In the mid seventies this
press was sold to Sydney University where it was used to print diplomas for a
few years. In 1979 Philip Roberts returned to Canada and gave Island Press to
Philip Hammial. PH moved to Woodford in the Blue Mountains in late 1994. In 1993 Island Press became a co-operative
with nine members, now eleven. Over its
long career Island has published over 50 titles.
Island Press is not open to unsolicited
manuscripts at this stage.
LINKS
www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Island Press Co-operative
Ltd