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Adam Aitken
The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living…
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Oliver Driscoll
Told through a series triptychs White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail.
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
A vibrant, thought-provoking collection from the ABIA and Indie award-winning author of The Hate Race and Carrying the World.
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Jack Hibberd
‘In Sweet River’s wash of water and words, there’s an implicit message. Humanity might be the great polluter, the river’s enemy, but it will all live on, preserved in language…
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Andy Jackson
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender
Jazz Money
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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Tony Birch
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
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Eileen Chong
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet.
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Evelyn Araluen
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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Cham Zhi Yi
‘blur by the’ collects fractures: poems navigating longing and dis[place]ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food…
Oodgeroo
Oodgeroo’s writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection of poetry and prose and a reminder of Oodgeroo’s contributionto indigenous culture and the…
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Paul Hetherington,Cassandra Atherton
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative…
John Kinsella,Thurston Moore
The Weave is the second book collaboration between Thurston Moore and John Kinsella - ‘dubbed a work in progress by the two poets, the book guides readers through a world…
Desert Pea Media
A new generation of deadly, young poets has emerged in Australia.
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Jeanine Leane, Red Room Poetry
Guwayu, For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years, and is a radical literary intervention for its breadth…
Alison Whittaker
Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nations poetry showcasing some of the brightest new stars, as well as leading Aboriginal writers and…
Ellen van Neerven
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven.
Thuy On
In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal and confessional, taken from the authors own life…
In turns unsettling and funny, Oliver Driscoll’s debut collection is a testament to the mundane resonances of contemporary life and language. Driscoll’s wry eye captures the subtle whimsy of the…
Kate Llewellyn
Quiet and insightful, raw in its simplicity, this collection of poems from iconic Australian poet Kate Llewellyn, written between the years of 2000 to 2019, examines a life well lived…
Felicity Plunkett
An outstanding collection from one of Australia’s most highly regarded poets.
Bron Bateman
This collection in four parts explores experiences of female embodiment, sexuality, and relationships with family, lovers and institutions.
Ali Alizadeh
This collection of poems presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection may be described as…
Ross Gillett
In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape - traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers…
Leni Shilton
Adark verse novel full of the humanity of its author who also works in violence prevention programs and has a keen ear for the complexities of living without safety nets…
Pi.O.
_Heide _is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia – from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert…
Kirli Saunders
Kindred, Kirli Saunders debut poetry collection, is a pleasure to lose yourself in.
Lisa Gorton
The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction.
Nandi Chinna
The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies.
Omar Sakr
Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.
Joanne Burns
The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered.
Judith Bishop
The much anticipated second volume from award-winning poet Judith Bishop.
Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do.
Candy Royalle
Listen to this non-prophet, This high priestess of poetry: No more hatred, just love, We are pure love, we are pure love. And this gathering, every gathering Is sacred. Listen.
David Malouf
This is only David Malouf’s third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia’s greatest living poets, Malouf continues to…
Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tête-à-tête that is powerful, thought provoking, and challenges what we think we know about our country, colonisation, and how we…
Lang Leav
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books, and sets sail for a grand new adventure.
Clive James
A meditation on death and life from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
Eunice Andrada
Powerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet
Rae White
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
Fiona Hile
Winner of the 2017 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award Taking its cues from Rimbaud’s call for the reinvention of love, Subtraction tours the hologrammatic labyrinths of the English language to…
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'I won't keep you long. First, I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land the majority of this collection was written.
Les Murray
Les Murray’s new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.
Following on from the success of their award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces themself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection. Moving between places…
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate…
Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present.
Ali Cobby Eckermann
In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but…
Omar Musa
A collection of love poems and fierce raps, Millefiori is Omar Musa’s third book of poetry. Both dream-like and gritty, it also includes gorgeous illustrations and draft poems from Musa’s…
