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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.
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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.
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Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was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…
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Amanda Gorman
The breakout poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
Sarah Crossan
Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all.
Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to…
Louise Gluck
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
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Various
A vibrant and essential collection that celebrates the future of Australian writing
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Alex Selenitsch
Purgatorio Re-placed is a re-write of Dante’s Purgatorio, the second book of his Divine Comedy.
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 is a Marxist-feminist epic poem - wait, no, it’s historical - actually it’s poems of the worker’s body. It is none and all of…
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.
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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…
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Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours shares and celebrates the fascinating life stories of everyday Australians.
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
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…
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Tony Birch
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
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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
Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem ‘The Hill We Climb,’ read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
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…
Elfie Shiosaki
Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together…
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.
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…
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates morning, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
Paul Kelly
A collection of more than 300 of Paul Kelly’s favourite poems.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
