Has there been an Australian poet as troubadorish and piratical as Duncan Hose? The work is a res...

'Duncan Hose treads the lesser-known path of maverick Australian poets such as Norman Talbot, Joh...

'This is surely a break-through book. Jill Jones has compressed her lyric awareness into an exact...

The essays in this mischievously titled collection, How to Proceed, are, in the author's own word...

He is a writer who doesn't want to write, a traveller who ignores the lessons of a serious earthq...

'Heart Starter' is John Tranter's twenty-fourth book of poems. It is made up of three parts: some...

This is a captivating and varied collection. No matter what Ella Jeffery turns her attention to, ...

The Women of Words Project was created in 2016 as a response to the alarming death toll of women ...

Eardrum is a book of poems and prose meditations about music. It developed, the author says, out ...

Perhaps I am Willingperhaps I am willingto be with you every dayraising ducks.my heart, for...

At the Foot of the Mountain is a wonder of compression and transformation. These poems are distil...

The Clambake is the annual culmination of a new poetry project in Newcastle, NSW - 'Cuplet Poetry...

On First Looking publishes poems by student writers at Avondale College of Higher Education along...

Superette's speaker assumes the guise of an audacious flaneuse with a practiced eye for detail. A...

Beyond here, there might be an orange orchard. Each tree a kind of orchard.Each orange eating t...

Todd Turner's second book, Thorn, is an expansive and intimate collection whose poems open out wi...

This ground-breaking anthology collects poems written by Australian poets who are migrants, their...

For most of his long publishing career, Rae Desmond Jones' poetry has specialised in precisely ob...

In the late 1930s an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young work mates to ...

Mothers-in-law are famous for being difficult but when Nell marries Andy it's her father-in-law, ...

In Sheet Music, John Upton's second collection of poetry, his meditations on people and places ar...

On Low Ground, Lower GroundI have been looking at the low groundthe lowest ground, everthe lo...

In his sixth book, Greg McLaren finds his stories in those of others, and others' in his. These p...

With language that often reads like stream-of-consciousness but is meticulously wrought, these po...

In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape - traditional verse forms...

This is an important and timely book from a mature, perspicacious voice. Phyllis Perlstone shows ...

These poems are unflinching in the face of death, yet filled with the delights of living, from a ...

Looking at relations to place, ways we receive language, and anxieties of communication as we mov...

Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual ...

Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries h...

The Hard Word wittily reflects on the stuff of words and what can be done with them, or to them, ...

Born in Shanghai, in November, 1953, Lu Piao, whose original name is Lu Jinchang, is a member of ...

This new collection extends themes taken up in The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street (2012). En...

After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his...

The rich diversity of Australian poetry stands in no need of makeovers or prescriptions. What wil...

S. K. Kelen was born in Sydney in the year the Olympics and Television came to Australia. He bega...

'We have entered the territory of concrete poetry here, where the extreme formality of the book's...

Dennis Greene's poetry is meditative, wry and questing, with surprising eruptions of strangeness....

How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kol...

This is a book about deep history and living in the moment; beauty and poverty; cosmic discovery ...

A young girl flies alone to Antarctica. A man goes on holiday and meets the politician he thinks ...

A work that shifts from high to low, philosophical, to ethical, to comic, in Bolton's well known,...

Ten nights. Ten haunted locations. One terrifying adventure across Australia.From a gaol cell to ...

Why is dress so much more than draping ourselves with the nearest piece of material we can find? ...

Three Yearsthe land, extending itself, makesone turn after another, spittingvillage after vil...

The Owl Inside presents an often haunted and feral, sometimes confessional and domesticated enqui...

In this long-awaited second collection, award-winning poet Rebecca Edwards distills the experienc...

A William Maidment Garland is a collection of poems and prose pieces which celebrate and memorial...