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…
Sunset on Santorini
You could build this hotel of ours here with a spoon This rock is soft as cake And the currants are bombs of black…
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…
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 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 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…
