Nothing to Declare
Alive, passionate and on the move—these poems range through worlds of wide reading, inner and outer journeying, through both the historic and the personal…
Dead Bolt
Winner of the 2020 Anne Elder Award. Winner of the 2019 Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry. This is a…
Thorn
Todd Turner’s second book, Thorn, is an expansive and intimate collection whose poems open out with a strong and developed voice to encompass a…
The Munchian O
Wattison’s poems are always investigative, always humane. They are always willing to take risks. I know of no other Australian poet who writes quite…
Eardrum
Eardrum is a book of poems and prose meditations about music. It developed, the author says, out of fascination with an art-form that is…
A Happening in Hades
S. K. Kelen’s oeuvre covers a diverse range of styles and subjects, and includes pastorals, satires, sonnets, odes, narratives, haiku, epics, idylls, horror stories,…
Dental Tourism
A young girl flies alone to Antarctica. A man goes on holiday and meets the politician he thinks has ruined his life. Here are…
New Year’s Day at the Hotel Australia
In the late 1930s an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young work mates to meet up on New Year’s…
The Foliage in the Underworld
Martin Duwell wrote in Australian Poetry Review that ‘Sharkey’s project seems to be built on a desire to make poetry once more (or more…
The Mirror Hurlers
Shortlisted for the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape — traditional verse forms, carefully…
