The Hallelujah Shadow
He is a writer who doesn’t want to write, a traveller who ignores the lessons of a serious earthquake, an urbanite who sees the…
Shutting
Succinct and reticent, Lu Piao, also as part of his pen-name, Piao (drifting, fluttering or floating), suggests, is a drifty kind of a poet,…
Digging
Writing like a peasant farming the land, Ren Yi has tentacles deeply rooted in the Chinese soil, often in a violent and bloodthirsty way.
The Lost Craft
As his pen-name (Seashore) suggests, Hai An’s poetry has an oceanic feel to it in its range of history and antiquity, with an eye…
Windfall
In his sixth book, Greg McLaren finds his stories in those of others, and others’ in his. These poems seek, suspect and deepen connection;…
Blindside
Blindside, Mark Reid’s fifth collection, exhibits his accustomed minimalist rigour, a spare & allusive lyric, contemporary, colloquial, committed, seeking the sublime in the everyday.…
Hope Blossoming in their Ink
Hope Blossoming in their Ink is Juan Garrido-Salgado’s sixth poetry collection published in Australia. It is a collection of poems written over more than…
Nothing to Declare
Alive, passionate and on the move—these poems range through worlds of wide reading, inner and outer journeying, through both the historic and the personal…
Dead Bolt
Winner of the 2020 Anne Elder Award. Winner of the 2019 Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry. This is a…
Thorn
Todd Turner’s second book, Thorn, is an expansive and intimate collection whose poems open out with a strong and developed voice to encompass a…
