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The Dilemma of Writing a Poem is divided into three parts: poetica, political poems, and mother earth poems. The book as a whole examines the interrelatedness of these three areas, drawing upon the author's own experiences of imprisonment and torture by Chile's Pinochet regime. This is committed, political poetry at its best.

If Cooke's previous book, Lyre, urged us towards the 'more' of the more-than-human world, then The grass is greener over your grave returns to the 'human' end of that spectrum - though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke's preoccupations with colonisation, ecology, metaphysics, and travel, while also ackn...

How could other parents understand she can't regulate, can't dress, screams in wind? Their girls touch down, their modules steady, small footsteps breaking the moon-sand's surface, their milestones cosmic miracles of the ordinary. We long for their basic okayness, their assumption that the whole team will walk on the moon, get to jump, twirl in the applause, treasure the video. With her characteristic heart and power, the winner of the Tim ...

Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to Adelaide to visit him. During his short stay, Ismael tells Saeed the story of his unrequited love for Forugh Farrokhzad - the most controversial poet of modern Iran. The story makes Saeed see his father in a new l...

The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget. It's 1916 and Isaak Brodsky has inherited his family's patisserie in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Here, in the midst of shelves overcrowded with marvellous, mouth-watering cakes, Isaak discovers that offering his customers the right cake leads to their psychological growth and his own. And so, the twentieth century science of...

A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese soprano has lost her voice and seeks repose on a sailing boat in Corsica. A South African advertising executive learns the ropes at his Accra offic...

One River is a series of haibun studies of the Hunter River and its tributaries. Haibun is a Japanese poetic form of prose punctuated by haiku. In this instance, the longer, but still brief, Korean sijo are employed as lively sketches of the birds, trees, weather and waterways encountered in the author's wanderings. The heart of this book are unique meditations on the river and its hinterland. In their whimsical complexity - and leaps of imagi...

wbo will become the pitch and cadence the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness? (from 'trees', p35) written 2008 to 2022, these poems in six parts (each part a ount) dive beneath the endless swells of love and grief that break over us like music or the rapid beating of our hearts here, the missing seventh count is imagined: caesura, break, breathe

Decades of experience inform Hologrammatical - Philip Salom's new book is full of intricate, dazzling, and defiant poems.' - Toby Davidson Philip Salom's major new collection explores human and natural existence - as life-force and loss, and for diverse symptoms of achievement and folly. His intense scrutiny gives air to the unavoidable complexity of voices raised and voices ignored. Whether it's injury and mortality (our own) or disturbance...

Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing which gives them birth. Presence gives way to absence and absence hints at something beyond a restoration of presence, something her poems take seriously and ground through disruption, 'the vowels of silence', and the truth of life, lived, grieved and continued. Ever be...

When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking after her home was not. She had long been instructed to put her career first. So she did. Yet what to do with the mushrooming laundry by the bathroom door? And what about if she actually liked cooking? Home Work is a series of personal essays motivated by three que...

I want to say that Ouyang Yu plays with language, but he doesn't: what he does is recognise that language plays with us. This digressive, almost hallucinatory narrative unites Ouyang Yu's abiding obsessions: identity, history, cultural hypocrisy, race, the nature of storytelling. How do we approach a story as loose as life - one that will honour the messiness of life lived in what cannot help being both its first and final draft? All the River...

A group of aimless young blokes from the suburbs of Sydney go troppo in 1980s North Queensland as all around them, men fuelled by the resources boom tear up the landscape with abandon. If Jack Kerouac had been Australian he might have come up with something like North, a tale of Australian masculinity searching for itself, while learning that we need to tread softly on the land if we are to have any sort of a future.

If, as has been said, Sant is "an important, innovative poet" with a "penetrating eye for the hidden geometries of meaning" it is because, whatever his subject, the vision it draws out of him is there to be his and the subject, like the insight, has come as naturally to him as leaves are to trees. - Elizabeth Knottenbelt, Agenda Andrew Sant writes intellectually compelling and formally taut poems ... made possible when an exceptional facilit...

Jill Jones is an omnivorous, attentive and exhilarating poet, admired for her seductive hauntings of urban experience and her playful rearrangements of language and page. Her work over the last three decades has fearlessly reckoned with the body and sexuality, place and the environment, the gamut of everyday life. Now, this long-awaited book showcases Jones' ambitious and resonant reworkings of the lyric, her dextrous and often witty extension...

A marvellous debut, fierce and tender. Alex McInnis explores the burdens of generations, the secrets and whispers, the sorrows and horrors of the past with breath-taking beauty, honesty and poignancy. Every word is perfect." - Grace Karskens Alex McInnis (she/her) is a writer living on Gadigal land, working with written forms to explore ideas of family, friendship, labour, time and stories that subvert accepted histories and futures. She has...

Michael Sharkey lives in Castlemaine, Victoria. Former teacher of literature and rhetoric, he is sceptical about the language of persuasion. As Augustine said, 'I have encountered many who want to deceive, but no one who wants to be deceived.

AfterLife was shortlisted in the 2021 Dorothy Hewett awards. The judges had this to say about the manuscript: Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer's is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers all, filled with curious objects drawn from the worlds of art, science, nature, love, life, death... everything. Supple lines and sensitive rhythms make surprising conjunctions, often leading us from the...

It might be that Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion is one of the greatest in the genre. It is closer to the declamatory theatre of Racine than to anything else in the robust tradition of the English novels of Fielding or Smollett or Dickens. It has generated in John Watson a response in iambics, which seem in English the only way this expressive grandeur can be attempted. Watson has in the past been drawn similarly to the ancient texts of...

Lee Cataldi, born 1942, lives near Adelaide and has published three books of poetry. Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party, which won the Ann Elder memorial Prize, The Women who Live on the Ground, which won the Human Rights Award for Poetry, and Race Against Time which won the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. She has worked as a field linguist on the Australian Languages, Warlpiri and Ngardi. She looks forward to the return of poetry as a majo...