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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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Seamus Heaney
A singular, accessible selection of Heaney’s work, for new and younger readers and for schools.
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Ella Risbridger
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With…
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Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates morning, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
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Paul Kelly
A collection of more than 300 of Paul Kelly’s favourite poems.
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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…
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Les Murray
Les Murray’s new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.
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.
Nandi Chinna
The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies.
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…
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Alison Whittaker
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.
Jalalu'l-Din Rumi
This volume draws on a wide variety of translations - from the early 20th century to the present - of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
Lang Leav
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books, and sets sail for a grand new adventure.
Eileen Myles
A searing new collection of Eileen Myles’ acclaimed poetry.
Bird Hera Lindsay
This impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. With themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this…
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Sylvia Plath
Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.
Rupi Kaur
milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity.
Maxine Beneba Clarke
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…
Ellen van Neerven
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…
Patricia Lockwood
This book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.
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…
