The flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side, just as the word "lesbian"—a force full of vitality and world-changing creativity—can destroy families and bring down governments. Evoking the ancient w...

In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories—her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three distinct philosophies with particular birds—the indigeno...

The striking poems presented here represent the widening breadth of contemporary Australian literature. Holland-Batt's unique and shadowy voice evokes a fresh, alternative view not only of the world but of life as a whole.

Brave, haunting, and evocative, this powerful volume presents its poetry in the form of a memoir. From the poet’s early experiences in an institution and the effect of this on her family to the illustration of her strength and independence as an adult, this bi...

From an authentic, powerful indigenous voice comes this body of poetry that examines issues of identity and culture from a woman's point of view. Lyrical yet radical, uplifting yet uncompromising, this collection evokes pride, painful memories, the realiti...

Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige's Latecomers is a first collection of poems by one of Australia's most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent, Savige's poems show an awareness of place, of ...

The Passenger is a collection of poems that shows Duggan's continued interest in place and a marked tendency to memorialise; that is, a continued interest in ways of rendering the world and the world of experience as both present and as fragile.

Winner 2006 CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards) Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smar...

MTC Cronin's poems - expansive and intimate, dynamic and reflective - blaze with electrifying vision. Writing with honesty and wit, grace, and the courage to strip away illusions, she explores surfaces, interiors, myths and mysteries through a kaleidoscope of flowers...

Bold, musical, lively and highly alluring, Two Kinds of Silence invokes not only the splendour of the Tasmanian coastline and high country, but also the fire and reach of imagination, the poignancy of parenthood, and the overwhelming force and consequence of adult lo...

"I am avalanche since I am big and white and knock things over and go whoooosh a lot and cover a lot of ground with much roaring and gusto and wheeling and spinning. By definition: a mountain getting its rocks off." (Ivan Gabriel Rehorek aka Avalanche) The Beat tra...

Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2010 Pedro Jones is lost. Abandoned by his father and forced into commission housing with his Filipino immigrant mother, the future seems bleak. But when Pedro meets the 'mad' street busker, Johnny Lazzaro, and gets involved with ...

Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau's philosophy, Victor Carl Friesen writes a poem for each and illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs.

According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941)[2] was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, in...

Postcard from Fukushima is another short collection of contemporary poems from the hand of Tom Law. His style is forward, anecdotal, humorous and razor cutting on contemporary issues political and environmental. Tom does not write to please all but to ignite and stim...

A beautiful story told in painting and poetry, depicting greed, loss, mourning, and the struggle with understanding, harmony, renewal and community that might lead to a more peaceful treetop. From cockatiel to pardalote and from kookaburra to frogmouth, the birds ...

Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. "Uncaged by calendars and watches", one character retreats into rainforests, another explores the world barefoot seeking "life's wild handful of quiver and piss." A twelve-year-old shoot...

Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical. Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an ext...

Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general. Thought provoking, impertinent, irreverent, witty, startling, this collection will have you mesmeris...

Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history and spirituality. Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2011....