Scavenger’s Season
Christopher (Kit) Kelen’s Scavenger’s Season represents a quarter century’s poetic engagement with a place. In this case the place is five acres between two…
East & Under the Weather
Laurie Duggan’s first book of poetry, East: Poems 1970 –1974 appeared in 1976 when the poet was 27. This reprinting of his debut work…
A Way of Happening
This anthology, a way of happening, follows on from two previous anthologies Wording the World (2010) and Here Not There (2012) which published student…
Embracing the Razor
Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as…
The Bulu Line
George Dyuŋgayan was a powerful Nyigina lawman from the Roebuck Plains (east of Broome). Over the course of a life spanning much of the…
The Niqab and the Mumkin
“As Allan Bloom observes, flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among journalists and writers dependent…
Slush Pile
Fourteen years ago Michael Ardenne dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut that won him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy…
Radiance
Shortlisted for the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Radiance is a book firmly grounded in the reality of contemporary life, yet lit by empathy…
Regulator
The poems in Regulator reveal an observant eye and an acute ear; the language is evocative, precise and sensuous. There are poems of the…
Leaves of Glass
Leaves of Glass is based on correspondence between Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Bernard O’Dowd (1866–1953). The letters, more than twenty of which have now…
