This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of......more

With its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection The ......more

Distinctive, fresh and compellingly present, AUP New Poets 10 features three exciting new voices. Looking out from today......more

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIZE FOR POETRY, 2024 VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS ’I keep looking at the stars to see the u......more

From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgiving Sundays, that will ......more

History-making author and theatre practitioner, Susan Marshall, sets our spirits alight in this sensual and exclusive po......more

He’s like the bird in a cage in a pit in a tunnel, and he sings just to celebrate air. Something . . .Everything . . .No......more

he is positioned to catch good light on his back with one leg held straight the other bent upwards . . . In this volume,......more

For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her se......more

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives ......more

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In Dublin Wandering, Nathanael O’Reilly rearranges, remixes and recombines words and phrases from James Joyce’s Ulysses ......more

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea work......more

PILGRIM is a collection of small wisdoms offered to illuminate the journey of life and to make sense, if possible, of th......more

The Hollowed Edge of Almost is a poetry collection full of emotion, it takes you through the lived experiences of falter......more

Jamie Shaw has investigated, and been exposed to, many of the World’s Religions, both great, and not so. Many would clai......more

A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo c......more

In the face of fire, flood, plague, environmental catastrophe and political chaos the challenge is that poetry, in Auden......more

Reflections on the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a re-reading of Albert Camus’ great novel La Peste (19......more

The Horizon Shifts Sideways has arisen out of the poet’s deep engagement with the observed world. Her work displays an i......more

In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera ......more

This collection had its beginnings in the shame, sadness and disbelief that was felt by many after the result of the Voi......more

A collection of poetry inspired by growing up in Australia, quite a long time ago. Yet it is all relative and to me, thi......more

Diane Wahlheim has for many years worked in a culinary world. Her love of all things that tempt the palette and lift the......more

Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad. Most of these poems bubbled......more

This collection traces the period from 2019, and the catastrophe fires in Australia, through the COVID years and beyond,......more

Texere is a selection of twenty years of existential observations on love, death, life, place and impermanence. ’In this......more

Texere is a selection of twenty years of existential observations on love, death, life, place and impermanence. ’In this......more

Within the verses of Growing Up, readers will embark on a journey through sorrow, love, emotions and challenges that sha......more

’Libby Sommer has a keen eye for extraordinary insights in the midst of the details of ordinary life, and for the striki......more

Toxic people do toxic things. They don’t care if they hurt you. Empathetic people care too much. About people that are a......more

swim damn you become of-the-sand your appointed task is to be hunted by me I demand you swim Ahab the mariner and Moby t......more

I wrote the first poems in this book as a way of dealing with the tragic loss of my brother. Whilst we must all face the......more

’Dominic Kirwan’s latest collection of poetry, Spreading the Bad Word, is jaw-droppingly delicious, and I say that as so......more

’David Kelly has an uncanny ability to dissect the most mundane moments with unexpected bursts of insight. Laced with Da......more

This book contains a selection of poetry and prose from the past five years of Ashley’s life. It is a combination of poe......more

A collection of modern poetic-style prose to cradle, comfort, guide and hold space for emotions big and small. Fans of B......more

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Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She ......more

A collection of verse echoing the complexities of Life, Love and Rural Australia. Delve into the humour, love, grief, re......more

The almost inescapable presence of TV advertising and social media in our lives means we are being constantly bombarded ......more

Petra White is a distinctive voice in Australian poetry. That Galloping Horse is her sixth collection, and the first to ......more

’Seasoned poets Jean McArthur and Linda M. Walker have captured the earthy and the ethereal. Keen observers of people, o......more

Each stage in a person’s life comes with different thoughts and feelings about life. For instance, it’s often thought th......more

The poems in this collection were composed using only words that appear in the following texts attributed to the legenda......more

At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound beco......more

Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore and now lives in the Blue Mountains. Her short stories, poems and articles have......more

’Herein, we find poetry replete with eloquence and imagination, with the ages and stages of life, of dreamtime and dayti......more

Venetian Mirrors takes the reader on a meandering tour, whose path traces a poetic portrait of Venice-as mediated throug......more

The collection of a man’s thoughts of ludicrosity and absurd emotions penned in poetic form and prose of fiction, of whi......more

"With tenderness and with a true poet’s eye, Gaetano Aiello brings the streets and parklands and beaches of his native A......more

A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed,......more

Michael Robinson is the winner of the 2009 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the 2023 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and was short......more

Greening the Earth is a rare anthology that brings together global poetic responses to one of the major crises faced by ......more

Sleeplessness renders and explores its speaker’s insomnia for the hours between three a.m. and the early morning, presen......more

I’ve experienced many challenges and felt sadness, anguish and despair. At times, I felt like no one cared or that life ......more

It was during the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-601) that China first introduced tea to Japan, but the gentle art of tea drinking ......more

A heartfelt collection penned by Luna Sinclair that transcends the ordinary expressions of love. In a world where words ......more

Peel back the layers of love with Luna Sinclair’s third work ’Orange Peel Theory’ - a soul-stirring book of poems that d......more

Voracious is a mythical beast. He lives on profits and is always hungry. A Midas beast, all he touches becomes a commodi......more

As far as I can tell, my first "A line from..." poem used as its prompt words found in a Ron Silliman piece. Jackson Mac......more

Where do you look to find the beauty of the world? Is it in a place that has been recently featured in a tourism brochur......more

Fulfilling a lifelong dream and buying a rural property, the writer is surprised to discover the farm becomes a rich sou......more

For over 30 years, the Newcastle Poetry Prize has championed Australian poets and their craft. The Newcastle Poetry Priz......more

Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poet......more

’Decades of experience inform Hologrammatical - Philip Salom’s new book is full of intricate, dazzling, and defiant poem......more

wbo will become the pitch and cadence the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness? (from ’trees’, p35) written 2008 to ......more

A Life Deserves Nine Cats is a collection of poems and drawings of cats by Sue Schindler and Ron Heard. Tough and tender......more

In his second poetry collection, Abhra Pal gives voice to the soul of water, crafting a human language that connects us ......more

Focusing on experiences of dislocation and on the importance of image and translation, That Nostalgia records John Matee......more

In Muse: Poems from Early Motherhood, Sarah Graham charts the highs and lows of her entry into the world of parenting. H......more

The Sea Chest is a visceral, moving, and emotionally layered account of life in the aftermath of loss. In 2017, Kerry Gr......more

On the 8th May 2020, I joined a collective of artists known as WeCreateNow. Everyday, creatives from across the globe su......more

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A collection of poems by the talented and effervescent Elizabeth Hicklin. Stories and ponderings on life, love and every......more