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Mixed Business

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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Fish Work

Caitlin Maling

At the Bottom of It, Pain Callie tries to give the fish a good death, short and sharp, severing the brain stem. Pithing – like the sound a cherry makes…

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Dropbear

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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Earth Dwellers

Kristen Lang

The Anthropocene – what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth’s history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness landscapes, Earth Dwellers challenges our human-centredness…

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Leftovers

Cassandra Atherton

Atherton’s treatment of the prose poem in Leftovers creates a synaesthesia-like experience. Her inventive regard of ordinary things triggers a breadth of sensations and memories, blurring in and out of…

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Aboriginal Country

Lisa Bellear

“Much of Lisa Bellear’s poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia’s political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our…

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Hand in Hand with Love: An anthology of queer classic poetry

An electrifying anthology of queer poetry through the ages edited by Dr Simon Avery, specialist in queer history and culture.

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