The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street
In this stunning, visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson offers cautionary threnodies that muse on environment and the endurance of theme park notions of the…
The Welfare of My Enemy
Too much information can be hard to swallow. Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow. Evidence blows away when the earth…
The Ringing World
This engaging collection charts a wild ride, from the language of the laboratory to the surprises of hetero-sex to the yearnings of the about-to-be-cannibalised.…
The Old Humanists
courting on a verandah under a sulphurous moon with her father all ears in the bathroom stropping his razor to the rhythm of the…
The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead
“If the purpose of poetry is to make strange what is familiar, then McLaren does this with aplomb. I find myself marvelling at what…
The Human Project: New & Selected Poems
This collection places Langford’s work in a substantially new light – judicious, and in some cases significantly rewritten selections from his previous five books…
The Ghost Poetry Project
Ten nights. Ten haunted locations. One terrifying adventure across Australia. From a gaol cell to a lunatic asylum to a night in a haunted…
The Edge of Everything
Shortlisted for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Winner of the Women’s Writers Biennial Book Award in 2009. “Don’t turn to this book for…
The Collected Blue Hills
In late 1980 Laurie Duggan began writing the Blue Hills poems as a kind of respite from the ‘poetry wars’. The series mostly spread…
the Book of Ethel
The subject of this work is the author’s maternal great grandmother. Born in 1872, in St Just, Cornwall, Ethel emigrated to Australia at the…
