{"title":"Diane Fahey","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiane Fahey's works invite readers into a contemplative world where nature, memory, and the passage of time intertwine. Her poetry and prose often explore delicate moments etched in place and emotion, weaving vivid imagery with a keen sensitivity to the natural environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eGlass Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSanctuaries\u003c\/em\u003e, Fahey captures subtle beauty and resilience, inviting reflection on personal and cultural landscapes. These books offer a thoughtful blend of the lyrical and the grounded, appealing to those drawn to \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e with a poetic sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sanctuaries-by-diane-fahey-9781923099289","title":"Sanctuaries","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Fahey builds on an already rich body of poetry about birds with this fresh tribute to their exquisite intelligence, grace and splendour as they exist in the wild, and in our immediate sensory world. Vividly, she evokes the lives and contemporary plight of penguins, flamingos and myriad other birds. \u003cem\u003eSanctuaries\u003c\/em\u003e offers a composite portrait of the suffering and the resilience, the giftedness in song and, in evolutionary terms, the self-fashioned beauty of birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong Moment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Taking in the Vista'  Stefan Christmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeptember. These emperor penguins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ehave translated themselves, early,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom a colony on sea ice where they paired up,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eraised their chicks, to this ice shelf.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbove a white ocean, the azure of its horizon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003etuned to that deeper blue within the ice,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethey enhance the stillness,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003estand amidst a panorama of new light.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'As a scientist and specialist on bird biology and behaviour I can say that Diane Fahey is ever so insightful and always correct in even the smallest glimpses of biological or behavioural aspects of a species that she observes...Her poetry is like a brightly lit art gallery where one can stop and feast on each image, invited in. I hope that many will take up the invitation and partake of the unique pleasures of this book and the highlights of celebrating birds generally and native Australian birds specifically.'  Gisela Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383987028204,"sku":"9781923099289","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19404013482872.jpg?v=1773392882"},{"product_id":"glass-flowers-by-diane-fahey-9781922571137","title":"Glass Flowers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlass Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Fahey explores many kinds of space—the enclosed spaces of rooms, art galleries, hospital wards, prehistoric caves, the airy, flowing spaces of gardens, and the sky's infinite life. Her intense engagement with the natural world moves in new directions, 'as we approach the summer years'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile some poems convey the freedom of the present moment—imaged by the long glide of a kelp gull, 'a yielding, shaping gesture'—others invoke the uncanny, as in \u003ci\u003eUnearthly\u003c\/i\u003e where clouds at sunset, photographed from a space station, send out into space \u003ci\u003ethousand-mile shadows \/ cutting through that cold radiance, \/ probing the void.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFahey also directs her gaze at various kinds of creativity—in particular, paintings that explore the inner life of rooms, and self-portraits built from \u003ci\u003ecoils and surges of \/ colour incarnate\u003c\/i\u003e. The title sequence, based on paintings inspired by the \u003ci\u003eGlass Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, combines a far-reaching imaginative ambit with an accent of contemplative calm:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the long stems\u003cbr\u003eseemingly\u003cbr\u003elit from within -\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethey too know the touch\u003cbr\u003eof sky-shine, the quixotic\u003cbr\u003elife of clouds.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet's call it\u003cbr\u003ethe provisional sublime.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, \u003ci\u003eA Death in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequence on the life and death of Leo Semanpillai, a Tamil refugee to Australia, brings forward a tragic narrative of oppression endured to the furthest limit of courage and hope, one that is emblematic of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430805422316,"sku":"9781922571137","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571137.jpg?v=1774558527"},{"product_id":"house-by-the-river-by-diane-fahey-9781922186874","title":"House By the River","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA House by the River\u003c\/em\u003e journeys through the six years Diane Fahey lived with her mother, Patricia, as her carer, and ends at a point five years after her death. Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given enduring form in poems that hold the tension between hope and truth, charting a gradual relief - then loss, and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same life-tide that swept us apart has brought us to this grateful, elegaic love, the hub we turn on - Demeter and Kore becoming each other, held in a graced affinity between loss and loss. Twilight summer. - 'Breath'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA House by the River\u003c\/em\u003e is also, in part, a record of the poet's creative life, sustained by the worlds of art and nature. Along with the garden surrounding her mother's house, Fahey celebrates the wider natural environment of Barwon Hears, opening out - as in \u003cem\u003eSea Wall\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRiver Light\u003c\/em\u003e - large perspectives of river, sea and sky, with the presence of birds an unfailing inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the central power of the book lies in its engagement with the mysteries of healing and spiritual resilience, as Fahey witnesses to the courage and grace of her mother's last years, so leaving a memorable portrait of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat would I need to know, to wear sunlight as richly, sparsely, as you do now: your face tilted to receive the wind's balm; that look of earthed serenity; body poised as a cormorant's, wings outstretched. - 'Garden Portrait'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Fahey is one of Australia's foremost poets. 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It offers extensive selections from her work on birds and insects, on the worlds of myth and story, and on meetings with river and sea. A search for spiritual touchstones guides her many-layered explorations of the mysteries of place, time, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Fahey is one of Australia's foremost poets. She has published twelve books of poetry, the most recent being \u003cem\u003eThe Stone Garden: Poems from Clare\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eSea Wall and River Light\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of sonnets set in Barwon Heads, was a winner of the ACT Government's Judith Wright Poetry Award. 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