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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…
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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…
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Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was.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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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.
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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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…
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.
Omar Sakr
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost Arabs.
Bebe Backhouse
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.
Autumn Royal
Intense, dramatic, theatrical – an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning.
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…
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.
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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…
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
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…
Sarah Holland-Batt
A stunning new collection from one of Australia’s finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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.
Leanne Shapton
A visual essay, a poem, a study of Princess Diana, image, celebrity and identity.
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
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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…
