{"title":"Jordie Albiston","description":"\u003cp\u003eJordie Albiston's works offer a distinctive blend of poetic form and emotional depth, exploring themes from history and memory to the intimate moments of daily life. Her collections, including \u003cem\u003eElement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFifteeners\u003c\/em\u003e, reveal a meticulous attention to structure balanced with a lyrical, resonant voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find in Albiston's poetry a celebration of language's possibilities, with inventive treatments of narrative and character, such as in \u003cem\u003eFrank, Jack \u0026amp; Mollie (\u0026amp; Her)\u003c\/em\u003e. Her contributions to arts and culture reflect a commitment to both craft and heartfelt expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"frank-by-jordie-albiston-9781922507433","title":"Frank","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted, ALS Gold Medal 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrank\u003c\/i\u003e, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley's Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albiston explores the idea that historical narratives can yield a strange and unexpected power when subjected to the pressures of poetic form, and in this way, she brings Hurley's thoughts and actions to life in a manner never seen before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Hurley accompanied both Mawson and Shackleton on their celebrated expeditions to Antarctica in the early twentieth century. Hurley's polar diaries, held at the National Library of Australia, represent a written adjunct to his pictorial surveys of what was then a geographical, cultural, and artistic unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful, evocative, and highly accessible volume that will delight both poetry readers and those interested in Antarctica and Hurley. The poems were written and compiled during the author's tenure as the National Library of Australia's 2021 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing. Jordie Albiston sadly passed away during the production of \u003ci\u003eFrank\u003c\/i\u003e; NLA Publishing is proud to now be realising her vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076722737388,"sku":"9781922507433","price":12.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13485453482872.jpg?v=1765213328"},{"product_id":"fifteeners-by-jordie-albiston-9781922571007","title":"Fifteeners","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu of the traditional fourteen. Themes of destruction and loss, hope and wonder, and the pressing fate of an unstable world, are coded like enduring questions into the machinery of these extraordinary poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlbiston's relationship with the sonnet has prevailed since her earliest work, most notably the highly celebrated and award-winning \u003ci\u003ethe sonnet according to 'm '\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424120357100,"sku":"9781922571007","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571007.jpg?v=1774769101"},{"product_id":"jack-mollie-her-by-jordie-albiston-9780702254185","title":"Jack \u0026 Mollie (\u0026 Her)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ea...up here I have the high eyes to identify my all-around of course I must go the way below some often as I have the depend on the sniff to comprehend the every but her shoulder is of the significant special on account of my near-near to Her \u0026amp; we are of the similar see which from a philosophical brings us much close there is more to life than feet feet feet I have the assure ...a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVibrantly playful and formally extraordinary, Albiston's exuberant long poem captures the voices of two very likeable dogs and their unlikely 'ownee', offering a gloriously oblique portrait of the canine adventures that map a household. Jack and Mollie's observant commentary of 'Her' give the book its emotional compass, while the syllabic structure and dynamic rhythms lend it muscle and pulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJordie Albiston's\u003c\/em\u003e dance with form is a sophisticated yet radical gambol... one senses her starting to take up her place in a future version of how we will come to recognise Australian Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Dan Disney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424419561708,"sku":"9780702254185","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780702254185.jpg?v=1774768515"},{"product_id":"element-by-jordie-albiston-9781925780598","title":"Element","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing chemistry as an indexing trope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundations and fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties, and its inherent assumption of many as yet unknown elements to occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems range across space and time, all the while adhering to the formal constraints of atomic theory. The states and structures of being are scrutinised according to love's capacity for passion and fissure, blessing and debt, and a compound body of two is progressively mapped onto the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlbiston's poetry cohesively resettles readers well beyond the usual linguistic boundaries, and by these means the poems sharply renew possibilities of enunciation.\u003c\/em\u003e - Dan Disney, \u003cem\u003eWesterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462889128172,"sku":"9781925780598","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780598-element.jpg?v=1775025273"},{"product_id":"weekly-poem-by-jordie-albiston-9781922186577","title":"Weekly Poem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weekly Poem\u003c\/em\u003e has been primarily designed with teachers and students of poetry in mind. It contains exercises using 52 different concepts and forms, all of which have been developed to inspire and expand poetic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach exercise is accompanied by one or more poems—sourced from around the world, with a main focus on Australia—which provide guidance, depth and an invigorating sense of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weekly Poem\u003c\/em\u003e represents an invaluable resource for all poets—emerging or established—and may be of benefit both in the classroom or at the private desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464768045292,"sku":"9781922186577","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922186577-weekly-poem.jpg?v=1775054113"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-by-jordie-albiston-9781922571120","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJordie Albiston's \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e presents for the first time the full range of her impressive achievement: her accomplished use of traditional forms, her innovation with syllabic forms, and the nearness to music of much of her work. Her premature and sudden death in 2022 robbed Australia of one of its leading poets. Her \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the achievement of one of our most extraordinary poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlbiston's poetry has long been fascinating to me, for her beautifully cadenced lyrics as much as for the classical elegance of her historical work. — Michael Sharkey, Island\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack \u0026amp; Mollie (\u0026amp; Her)\u003c\/i\u003e is triumphantly experimental in both technique and content...an important book by a leading Australian poet. — Geoff Page, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhile [the periodic table] may seem like an unorthodox method of writing a love poem, the results are explosive. — Sarah Holland-Batt, \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJordie Albiston's poems slide through linguistic associations, etymologies, histories and locations. They establish a scale that is at once both atomic and cosmic, harnessing those minutely observed details of elemental love alongside the vast, world-altering consequences of emotional and chemical states. — Judges' Report, 2021 NSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47773120463084,"sku":"9781922571120","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571120-selected-poems.jpg?v=1782182504"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/jordie-albiston.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}