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…
Paragliding in a War Zone
“Paragliding in a War Zone works like a performance enhancing drug on the brain. Louise Wakeling turns poetry into an extreme pastime, a breathtaking…
Raw Nerve
These poems are a powerful domestic narrative about families and the suffering that sometimes come with them: the loss of children, the rituals which…
Skin Theory
“On the crudest level it takes a lot of energy to sustain a nineteen book career in a generally blasé literary culture like Australia’s.…
Slo-Mo Tsunami
Bruce Dawe has received wide recognition as Australia’s most popular poet, his books often being set for study at secondary and tertiary levels. Slo-Mo…
Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve: Micro-Essays on Judgement and Justice
Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would…
