The Horizon Shifts Sideways has arisen out of the poet’s deep engagement with the observed world. Her work displays an informed curiosity about the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it – both human and animal. With unflinching candour, it explores and challenges the ways in which our preconceptions, prejudices, memories, and self-deceptions shape our worldviews.
The Diwan of Nawid
The Diwan of Nawid is like nothing else in Australian poetry—a spiritual text of sublime beauty in which we follow the struggles, questionings, and exhortations of Nawid, a character you will come to love for the way in which he lays before us his intense search for inviolable truths. Nawid is an ‘everyman’ but with one remarkable difference—he is a first-rate poet whose work contains the devotion and open-minded sagacity of a modern-day Kabir.
—Judith Beveridge
the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness
who will become the pitch and cadence the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness? (from ‘trees’, p35) written 2008 to 2022, these poems in six…
Coming to Nothing
Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing…
The Interpretation of Cakes
The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget. It’s 1916…
Princess de Cleves
It might be that Madame de Lafayette’s novel of passion is one of the greatest in the genre. It is closer to the declamatory…
AfterLife
“Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer’s is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers…
Einstein’s Brain
An extension of O’Flynn’s previous work, Einstein’s Brain floats somewhere between the hug and the thistle. It contains great variety in terms of subject…
Mourning is Women’s Business
These poems were written over a period of about 20 years. Some relate to living in an Aboriginal community in WA with the last…
The Dilemma of Writing a Poem
The Dilemma of Writing a Poem is divided into three parts: poetica, political poems and mother earth poems. The book as a whole examines…
