In this fourth major poetry collection, Claire Gaskin re-envisions the myth of Antigone by focusing on her sister Ismene. Assuming the voice of a contemporary Ismene, she asks us to consider what survivable resistance might look like for those who live on after tragedy? What kind of avenues are available to resist autocratic and patriarchal structures of power? How might we imagine a future that is different to our past and instigate real change at both a personal and public level?
Dead Cat Bounce: New and Selected Poems
John Carey possesses a wicked, intelligent sense of humour and a deft feel for the play of language. His poetry is a finely calibrated device for detecting and skewering absurdity, cant, hypocrisy, humbug, mendacity, and institutional cruelty. Underlying the fun is the humanist’s lament that we should and could be better than this. Though overshadowed by his satires, this New and Selected also contains lyrical and personal poems which are acutely affecting.
— Brook Emery
John Carey writes a richly communal poetry, full of glimpses of the absurdity of our social lives. These poems are both playful and wise, moving from a surprising hilarity to a compassionate seriousness
that re-envisions our world, until we see it with fresh eyes. Dead Cat Bounce includes all of Carey’s most memorable work—poems to be savoured, shared and treasured.
— Andy Kissane
The Hard Word
The Hard Word wittily reflects on the stuff of words and what can be done with them, or to them, their uses and abuses – especially on the subject of love, perhaps the hardest word of all.
Fifteeners
The sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu of the traditional fourteen. Themes of destruction and loss, hope and wonder, and the pressing fate of an unstable world, are coded like enduring questions into the machinery of these extraordinary poems.
Listen to audio of Jordie reading selections from this book. http://auspoetaudio.szikla.com/jordie_albiston/
Icon
My father, Eugienuisz Zajkowski, had a hard, miraculous and normal life. He never intended to be an icon. This collection preserves some of what I lost to his Alzheimer’s. And then, what I lost when he died.
Monster
Charting surreal and yet familiar worlds where hope and horror co-exist, Monster is ruthless, weird, dark and funny. These 32 stories explore loss, addiction,…
The Wind Was Rising
Na Ye’s poetry shows her as a woman relaxed at her work, smoking while staring inwardly at the outside world, focusing on her own…
The Boy in a Baseball Cap
From the winner of the inaugural Shanghai International Poetry Competition in 2016, this collection, written in a post-Menglong style covers a variety of themes, including disability and gay and lesbian themes. A rising star in the Chinese poetry scene.
At the Foot of the Mountain
At the Foot of the Mountain is a wonder of compression and transformation. These poems are distilled from decades of living, reading, thinking and…
Glide
Glide is the second part of an ecopoetics project that began with the landmark collection Yuiquimbiang. Louise Crisp’s new collection extends her research into…
