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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…
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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…
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Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was.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…
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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
Kirli Saunders
Returning is a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli's journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection
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.
Louise Carter
Powerful debut presenting a bold new female voice in Australian poetry.
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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…
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…
Madison Godfrey
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.
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Caitlin Maling
Written out of distinctively Western Australian settings, Spore or Seed is a narrative of pregnancy, birth and the early years of motherhood.
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.
Grace Yee
Chinese Fish is a family saga in miniature, spanning three generations.
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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Lisa Gorton
The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks
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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.
Lionel Fogarty
Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of…
Gwen Harwood
A must-have collection from one of Australia’s finest poets
Sarah Holland-Batt
A stunning new collection from one of Australia’s finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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.
Claire Potter
New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia’s richest lyrical poets.
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.
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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
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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…
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
Jazz Money
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
Tony Birch
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
Eileen Chong
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet.
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.
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…
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.
Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie’s Navigable Ink is a rare poetic exploration of Indonesian writer and activist Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s tragic, visionary and ultimately triumphant life. With skill, knowledge and sensitivity Mackenzie captures…
