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    The Gleaner Song
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    The Gleaner Song

    Song Lin is one of China's most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made...
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    Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous

    "His is either a well-oiled universe or a chaos huddled together...he's a mannish character, unanimal, counterfeit, scurrilous."Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection...
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    Earth Dwellers
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    Earth Dwellers

    The crags do not notice if I have come from stone or am becoming stone or am merely part of the weather.The Anthropocene what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth's history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness...
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    Antipodean China
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    Antipodean China

    Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to...
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    No Document
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    No Document

    *Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize*No Documentis an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and...
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    Buried Not Dead
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    Buried Not Dead

    Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous,...
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    J.S. Harry Selected Poems
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    J.S. Harry Selected Poems

    When J.S. Harry died in 2015 she was acknowledged as one of the great female poets of her generation, alongside Fay Zwicky, Antigone Kefala, Jennifer Maiden and Judith Rodriguez.This commemorative volume gathers poems from all her collections, as well as...
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    Homer Street
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    Homer Street

    Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.Laurie Duggan's new collection begins with poems written during his last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others written on a visit to Australia in 2016 and...
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    Towards the End
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    Towards the End

    Towards the End presents thecontemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversiblytowards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker'sdisillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic...
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    Womerah Lane
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    Womerah Lane

    Carment is one of Australia's best-known plein air artists. It is his distinctive mark as a writer that he writes as he paints from life capturing the likeness of a particular place in time, remaining faithful to the moment when he sees...
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    Heide
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    Heide

    *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry*Heide is an epic poem about history,painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia -from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton...
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    Intimate Antipathies
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    Intimate Antipathies

    IntimateAntipathiesis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the...
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    Empirical
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    Empirical

    *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry**Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry*The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers...
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    Sergius Seeks Bacchus
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    Sergius Seeks Bacchus

    To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesiais a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regularbasis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yetthis was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry...
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    A Novel Idea
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    A Novel Idea

    A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as shewrites her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheekrumination on the monotony and loneliness of the novelist's daily life, and theact...
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    Crow College
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    Crow College

    Giramondopublishes in a single volume, for a new generation of poetry readers, adefinitive selection of the timeless work of revered Melbourne poet Emma Lew.The dark aura of Emma Lew's poetry has madeher a compelling and mysterious presence for...
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    The World Was Whole
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    The World Was Whole

    Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fictionLonglisted for the 2019 Stella PrizeThe follow-up to Fiona Wright's essaycollection Small Acts of Disappearance winner of the Nita B. Kibble...
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    Green Shadows and other poems
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    Green Shadows and other poems

    GeraldMurnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarmingpoems that traverse the rich span of his life.  I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. -...
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    Aqua Spinach
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    Aqua Spinach

    Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's thirdcollection with Giramondo.Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in theaffinities between poetry and other media visual arts, music, andparticularly in this...
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    Newcastle Sonnets
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    Newcastle Sonnets

    Once aworking-class heartland, Newcastle is now acclaimed as one ofthe top 5 hipster cities in the world. In the sequence of sonnets which composeher homage to Newcastle, Glastonbury celebrates the city's oddities andcontradictions, remixing the material...
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    Sun Music
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    Sun Music

    WINNER of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary AwardsShortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2019Judith Beveridge is one of Australia most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, a highly...
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    Flood Damages
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    Flood Damages

    Powerfulfirst collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poetIn Flood Damages Andrada explores themesassociated with immigration and inheritance, through the figure of a young AustralianFilipina woman, whose family has been irreparably...
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    The Hijab Files
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    The Hijab Files

    Debutcollection by a young Western Sydney poet, focussed on the hijab, and  exploring the complexities of growing upMuslim in AustraliaMaryam Azam's poems take the mysteriesof the hijab as their object of scrutiny. Though shamed and angered by...
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    Joao
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    Joao

    New collection from award-winning poet John MateerIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joo, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow...
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    The Alarming Conservatory
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    The Alarming Conservatory

    Acclaimed poet Corey Wakeling's secondcollection continues his inquiry into language and the spatial architectures ofhistory and culture. Set among 20th century ruins, the poems arecast as if hallucinations: colonial-style houses are 'guarded by palm...
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    Domestic Interior
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    Domestic Interior

    Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance, and they share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our...
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    I Love Poetry
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    I Love Poetry

    MichaelFarrell is the most adventurous andexperimental of contemporary Australianpoets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highlyregarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language,...
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    Chatelaine
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    Chatelaine

    Chatelaine is a collection ofpoems peopled by characters who, like a family portrait, resemble one anotherin foxed, latent ways. Their voices stalk outside of time and place, inhabitingthe genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric and ekphrasis, and...
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    Indigenous Transnationalism
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    Indigenous Transnationalism

    After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power,...
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    The Honeymoon Stage
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    The Honeymoon Stage

    Debut collection by ayoung poet whose simple, funny and deceptively nave poems engage with the virtualrealities of the internet.The Honeymoon Stage is a collection ofpoems written for friends on the internet over a five-year period. Thesefriends were...
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    Lunar Inheritance
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    Lunar Inheritance

    "a deep meditation on fractured origins and the process of remaking" Eileen Chong"Brown's postcardssing crisp Guangzhou mornings and hints of dry Australian sunsets"Sam Wagan WatsonA hoarding Chinesegrandmother fills her home with objects, unable to...
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    These Things are Real
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    These Things are Real

    "Wearne's epics and fragments are like the traces of aruined culture, in which everybody got to star in their own domestic drama orscrewball romance. Until you realise that it's happening, here and now: you arebeing waltzed around the living room of...
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    Mirror Sydney
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    Mirror Sydney

    Through delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn illustrated maps, Mirror Sydney charts an alternative view of the harbour city, to show a place of suburban mysteries, hidden stories, and anachronistic sites. Vanessa Berry, one of Australia's most acute...
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    Homing
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    Homing

    "An impressive and engaging collection...the poems are assured yetthey also bring out the often conflicted feelings that places can evoke:strangeness, beauty, loss, violence, distance, closeness, intimacy andindifference" - Judith...
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    Harvest Lingo
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    Harvest Lingo

    **Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection****Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize****Shortlisted, Prime Minster's Literary Awards, Poetry...
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    Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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    Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

    We think ofcontemporary Indian writing as sharing the same teeming quality as the countryitself. But the simplicity and clarity of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poems pointto another Indian literary tradition, one based on understatement andresonance,...
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    Word Migrants
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    Word Migrants

    Hazel Smith's new poetry collectionengages in a direct way with contemporary political and social issues civilwar and the flight of populations, oppressive regimes and the disappearance ofdissidents, the unpredictable effects of climate change relating...
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    In the Photograph
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    In the Photograph

    The poems in In the Photograph unfold in domestic and suburban settings. They capture the exact moment of writing: how, from it, possibilities branch out into observation, memory, word play, analogy, fantasy, other artworks and other art forms. Cinema,...
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    Golden Repair
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    Golden Repair

    Powerful debut presenting a bold new female voice in Australian poetry.The poems in this collection draw upon the sounds, colours and quirks of urban and suburban Australia. Personal perceptions and associations are interwoven with snippets of speech,...
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    Chinese Fish
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    Chinese Fish

    **Winner, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, Mary and Peter Briggs Award for Poetry****Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024****Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Poetry**When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of...
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    The Drama Student
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    The Drama Student

    Intense, dramatic, theatrical - an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning.As its title suggests, the poems in Autumn Royal's The Drama Student explore theatrical responses to life. And in...
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    Monster Field
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    Monster Field

    'Dougan's elliptical work hints at a life that hovers just beyond our comprehension; in dreams, tales, the past, in the imagination of the poet. This other world surrounds even the most domestic of the poems.' - Winner's citation, West...
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    Googlecholia
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    Googlecholia

    The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia's most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and...
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    In the Roar of the Machine
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    In the Roar of the Machine

    This selection collects some of the most influential and moving work of the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, who spent nearly a decade at the beginning of the century working in the newly created factories and warehouses in what has become one of the largest...
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    False Nostalgia
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    False Nostalgia

    False Nostalgia is rare among poetry collections, a work which is both lyrical and philosophical. It explores the way memory works, and the role memory plays in our sense of identity, and what we take to be the significant moments in our lives the...
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    Inside My Mother
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    Inside My Mother

    '...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the...
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    Almost Sincerely
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    Almost Sincerely

    When Zo Norton Lodge was growing up in Annandale in the eighties and nineties, the self-proclaimed Heartland of the Inner West was a heady brew of somewhat maladjusted and genuinely unsettling residents. But Annandale was changing. New words like...
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    Jam Sticky Vision
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    Jam Sticky Vision

    "He seems tostart writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just putdown, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first time,as if the poem has somehow written him." Kirsten Krauth, The AustralianJam...
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