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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.
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Omar Sakr
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost Arabs.
Bebe Oliver
more than these bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author’s journey through heartbreak and self-discovery.
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Alison Whittaker, Steven Lindsay Ross (eds)
A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers.
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Autumn Royal
Intense, dramatic, theatrical – an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning.
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Madison Godfrey
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.
Shastra Deo
An imaginative, high concept and distinctive new collection from the winner of the Shapcott Prize and the ALS Gold Medal.
Jeanine Leane, Judith Beveridge
Best of Australian Poetry is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was
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Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two…
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Michael Farrell
The title of his new collection Googlecholia alludes to the range of emotional affects and feelings that the internet induces: pleasure, satisfaction, joy, melancholy, anxiety, schadenfreude, boredom, nausea.
PJ Harvey
Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet - whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the…
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Janaka Malwatta
From Sri Lankan-Australian poet Janaka Malwatta, a superb collection that directs its imagining towards a just future for the next generation.
Zheng Xiaoqiong
This selection collects some of the most influential and moving work of the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong
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Uncle Wes Marne
Published to commemorate the author’s 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people.
Sarah Holland-Batt
A stunning new collection from one of Australia’s finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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Gwen Harwood
A must-have collection from one of Australia’s finest poets
Tracy Ryan
The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we…
Alf Taylor
Alf Taylor’s stories and poems offer a vivid picture of the care, kindness and gentleness of Aboriginal families and communities and their enduring strength, resourcefulness and power.
Ocean Vuong
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
Warsan Shire
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce’s Lemonade and Black Is King.
Judith Wright
The poems in Birds commemorate Judith’s love of birds, while on a deeper level exploring a gamut of very human experiences, from the delightful, to the humorous, to the sorrowful.
Claire Potter
New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia’s richest lyrical poets.
Les Murray
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia’s unofficial poet laureate
John Kinsella
This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and…
Marjon Mossammaparastan
In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matching it with the belief we are also spirit beings.
Gavin Yuan Gao
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was
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…
Amanda Gorman
The breakout poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
Louise Gluck
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
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Hollie McNish
The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award winning author of Nobody Told Me
Eileen Chong
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet.
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial…
Elena Gomez
Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt
Maria Takolander
From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.
Oliver Driscoll
Told through a series triptychs White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail.
Maxine Beneba Clarke
A vibrant, thought-provoking collection from the ABIA and Indie award-winning author of The Hate Race and Carrying the World.
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…
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
Sarah Holland-Batt’s highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well…
Eunice Andrada
The poems in Take Care explore what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness
Jazz Money
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
Jane Gibian
Jane Gibian’s poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life - whether in nature or in social routines
Emily Sun
Vociferate is a collection of poems inpsired by Asian-American feminist writers. Like these writers, Emily resists interpellation into both Eurocentric and patriarchal tropes, as she explores the idea of national…
Mary Oliver
In her collection Dog Songs, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates of the unique bond between human and dog. Published for the first time in the UK, this is an…
Tony Birch
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
Erik Jensen
Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer and screenwriter. These poems announce a new phase in his work. They are startling in their simplicity and their honesty
Lucy Van
Van’s poetry is an ongoing decolonial passage. Each opened space and time takes to task the one just left, then comes home to the poet, her self-reflexive though pointing to…
