Happy Avatar
When William Blake meets Hello Kitty there’s bound to be sparks. Happy Avatar transports the reader into a mingled reality of sampled voices, incongruous…
Bunratty
“Duncan Hose treads the lesser-known path of maverick Australian poets such as Norman Talbot, John Watson and Javant Biarujia—that is, like all good must-read…
A Caterpillar on the Leaf
For most of his long publishing career, Rae Desmond Jones’ poetry has specialised in precisely observed social and political phenomena. People and their often anti-social impulses…
The Non-Sequitur of Snow
Moving non-chronologically through youth and maturity, dreamscapes and time, Shari Kocher’s long-awaited first collection charges the elusive music of cross-generational song-lines—mothers and daughters, daughters…
Moments
These stories explore the nature of love, loss and memory: central to them is the uneasiness the narrators feel about their place in the…
Everyday Epic
In this new book by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, her celebrated skill with form—so apparent in her first book, The Bundanon Cantos, and utilised to…
The Myrrh-Bearers
The Myrrh-Bearers is a book of love poems, describing real events and real people as the poet has experienced them. The worlds evoked in…
Turbulence: Climate Change and the Design of Complexity
Complex issues, like climate change, defy simple presentation and simplistic response. But their worst enemy, according to Turbulence, is a fear of complexity. Paul Carter…
Anonymous of Troy
Following a long creative practice of the sonnet (La Leçon d’Otilia, 1995), Anonymous of Troy inaugurates a new exploration of doubleness and overlay in…
The Ladder
The Ladder is Simon West’s third collection of poetry, and his first in four years. Many earlier preoccupations return—the natural environment, Italian art, the…
