Poetry

A Little More

by Margaret Scott
Ligature untapped
genre Anthology · Essays · Poetry · Short Stories

In 1999, Margaret Scott contributed an essay to 40 Degrees South magazine. It began, ‘If The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald are to be believed, I have, late in life, changed from being “a little known poet” to a “cultural icon”.’ This collection of her essays, poetry, extracts from her books and tributes from her friends celebrates a woman comedian Mikey Robins describes as ‘a bloody legend’.

A Little More was first published in 2005, shortly after Margaret Scott passed away. She was involved in the selection of the pieces.

Margaret Scott (1934–2005) was an award-winning poet, academic, novelist and non-fiction writer. She was awarded the Centenary Medal for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian literature.

Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems

by Martin Johnston
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Born in Sydney and brought up in Greece, Martin Johnston’s experience of two languages and two cultures led him to produce a body of work that is both very Australian and quintessentially European.

Other Worlds

by Dorothy Porter
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.

What a Piece of Work

by Dorothy Porter
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.

Wild Surmise

by Dorothy Porter
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.

Driving Too Fast

by Dorothy Porter
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Dorothy Porter’s fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.

Crete

by Dorothy Porter
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love.

Fortinbrasse

by Matt Rubinstein
Ligature first
genre Poetry · Theatre

Fortinbrasse is the tragedy of Hamlet’s mirror and foil, the Prince of Norway. It supplements the handful of references Shakespeare gives us in Hamlet with further details from his, sources together with my own speculation about the circumstances that eventually lead to Fortinbrasse’s bittersweet arrival at Elsinore at the end of Hamlet.

Solstice: the Play

by Matt Rubinstein
Ligature first
genre Poetry · Theatre

Solstice is a play in verse set over the twenty-four hours of the longest day of the year, in Adelaide, South Australia. It is a story of love and exploration told in sonnet form, one verse for each few minutes of the day. It shows how much can change in a day — the whole world, and at the same time nothing at all.

Equinox

by Matt Rubinstein
Ligature first
genre Literary Fiction · Poetry

A novel of Sydney, its salt water and sandstone, its glass and steel. A sonnet for each day of the year, following four characters through four seasons as their fortunes rise and fall and their paths cross. The sequel to the award-winning Solstice.

Poetry

A Little More

Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems

Other Worlds

What a Piece of Work

Wild Surmise

Driving Too Fast

Crete

Fortinbrasse

Solstice: the Play

Equinox

Satchel

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