Proofs
The actor who can’t leave the stage – like the sales rep who lives in transit, the stenographer who throws himself on the mercy…
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 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 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 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…
Traps and Sanctuaries
In Traps and Sanctuaries, Mark Mahemoff alternates between those experiences of the everyday that act like snares to bedevil us and those that beguile…
Walking on Ashes
These poems explore the horrors and effects of war with fierce, unrelenting attention. The poetry is precise in its details and has a dignity…
Westering
Shortlisted for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Winner of the William Baylebridge Prize Westering is a dazzling collection. It displays a range of…
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…
Out to Lunch
Shortlisted for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry “This is generous poetry. Out to Lunch is a book of sustenance, pleasure and tender…
