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Margaret Atwood
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age
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Rupi Kaur
A deluxe 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling poetry collection milk and honey
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Alan Wearne
A sequence of inter-connected narratives from pre-World War One to the 2020s, Mixed Business is Alan Wearne's latest contribution to the verse novel genre.
Propelled at times (though never exclusively)…
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Hasib Hourani
A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.
Jazz Money
A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket.
Elfie Shiosaki
Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki.
Brontez Purnell
From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.
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Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.
Anne Carson
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years
John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT…
Len Pennie
From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving
Kate Fagan
Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date.
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Scott-Patrick Mitchell
In this volume, Scott-Patrick Mitchell propels us into the seething mess of the methamphetamine crisis in Australia today. These poems roil and scratch, exploring the precarious life of addiction and…
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Melody Godfred
Readers have called her work ‘life changing’, ‘pandemic medicine’, and ‘part of my daily ritual’. Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom…
Judith Bishop
A dazzling new poetry collection from award-winning poet Judith Bishop, a conclusion to her trilogy focused on time.
Perched on a tablecloth with glasses
for a summer drink: life, on…
Elaine Feeney
The powerful new collection from Irish poet and multi-award winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat.
Michael Ondaatje
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery
Manisha Anjali
Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to…
Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books invites some of the world’s leading First Nations poets together in poetic conversation.
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Nam Le
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry
Andrew Motion, Stephen Regan
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolation
Roslyn Orlando
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Roslyn Orlando restores the Ekho into a dynamic poetic voice.
David Brooks
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career
Kate Middleton
A poetry collection which is part criticism, part autobiography, and always acute in its recollection of the emotions inspired by television drama
Jeanine Leane
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political.
Robbie Coburn
I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart
Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows…
Michael Walsh
An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries.
This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer…
Kent MacCarter
Poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical…
Sara M Saleh
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh
Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and…
Kirli Saunders
Returning is a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli's journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection
Sam Morley
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational style
Amy Crutchfield
Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various forms
Anna Jacobson
Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a…
Pi O
A chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners.
Jarad Bruinstroop
In this striking poetry debut, Jarad Bruinstroop offers a frank and tender exploration of Queer history, art, beauty and pain.
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Louise Carter
Powerful debut presenting a bold new female voice in Australian poetry.
Red Room Poetry
Celebrating 20 years of Red Room Poetry, this is the essential Australian poetry collection of 2023!
Susie Anderson
A powerful collection of poetry from an award-winning poet and black&write! Fellowship winner, the body country is an evocative exploration of a world that too often marginalises and a meditation…
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Padraig O Tuama
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times - the perfect gift for all poetry lovers.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
A gorgeous reissue of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of Norton's 100th anniversary
Caitlin Maling
Written out of distinctively Western Australian settings, Spore or Seed is a narrative of pregnancy, birth and the early years of motherhood.
Ali Cobby Eckermann
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We…
Claudia Rankine
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.
Luke Beesley
The poems in In the Photograph unfold in domestic and suburban settings. They capture the exact moment of writing: how, from it, possibilities branch out into observation, memory, word play…
Grace Yee
Chinese Fish is a family saga in miniature, spanning three generations.
John Kinsella
A unique experience. A novel in 'spindle' sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat.
Kate Larsen
Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled and contested online and in real life.
