Puncher & Wattmann

Puncher
Puncher & Wattmann is an independent publisher of quality Australian writing. Since 2005, we have published anthologies and many award-winning books of poetry, novels, biography and critical non-fiction.

Awards for Puncher & Wattmann Books

Our books have been shortlisted or won most of the major literary prizes in the country. Most recently, Kim Cheng Boey's  collection Clear Brightness was shortlisted in the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Julie Chevalier's Darger: His Girls and Bonny Cassidy's Certain Fathoms were shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Poetry and Toby Fitch's Rawshock was awarded the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.

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The P&W website

Welcome to the P&W website. Make sure you spend some time checking out our book pages - we have samples available from most book, as well as links to reviews. 

And check out our blog too - each month or so a guest P&W author posts their thoughts. Philip Salom started things off, followed by Bonny Cassidy.

Autumn Sale

 Anthologies & Biographies  $15 inc. postage

 

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Forthcoming and recent Titles

Out of Print by Julian Croft will be launched at the Newcastle Writers Festival on April 5, 4pm at the Newcastle Art Gallery. Palace of Culture by Ania Walwicz will be launched on Saturday 3 May.  David Foster's, The Niqab and the Mumkin: Essays

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Global News snippets

Poet Laureate leads protest against prison book rules

Writers and actors opposed to new rules stopping people sending books to inmates have held a protest outside Pentonville Prison in north London. Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy joined demonstrators including actress Vanessa Redgrave.

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From the P&W Blog...

On not knowing

In December I responded to remarks by Fairfax book critic Andrew Riemer concerning Lionel G Fogarty’s poem in the Best Australian Poems 2013 (Black Inc, ed. Lisa Gorton). As I pointed out, it seemed unbelievable that Riemer selected Fogarty’s work as an example of what he saw as “in the strictest sense of the term, meaningless” poetry contained in the anthology. 

From the entry On not knowing

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I always wanted to found a University of Woollomoolo based on a variation of this worthwhile project: you contact the Uni, find the course/lecturer you want and you pay for your education by...

From the entry Poetry with strangers