<div>This engaging collection of poetry, split into six sections and written in an intimate and affectionate tone, is wonderfully diverse. The lyrical poems address issues that run the gamut from family, friends, and domestic situations; to... [More...]

Includes 'Sea Spray' and 'Smoke Drift', 'Bush Ballads and 'Galloping Rhymes', and 'Astaroth' - a dramatic lyric.

Leave all your assumptions behind about the way poetry should work or look when you pick up this book. Basil Eliades writes like a painter and paints like a poet. This is form on a mission, words strained to the limit of elasticity. Take a deep breath, and... [More...]

Winner, Queensland Premier's Award for Poetry The challenge for readers of David P Reiter's work over the past 15 years has been trying to pin down his art and influences. Not an easy task. His imagination resists cultural razor wire by composing without a... [More...]

Spanning three decades, this collection brings together some of the  best work of one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Richly textured and thought provoking, this compilation of older and newly revised work features natural and personal... [More...]

M.T.C. Cronin's last Shearsman collection 1-100, was awarded two major literary prizes in her native Australia and also brought her significant attention both in the UK and the USA. Her new collection is in fact four small books in one, four separate... [More...]

Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14th-century French poet Francois Villon stranded in the isolated and semideserted coal-mining town of... [More...]

The subtle and sophisticated poems in this collection artfully move across a spectrum of geographic and emotional landscapes. After shunning the physical reality of Antarctica's "hazardous beauty" in favor of exploring the inner world it inspires, the poet... [More...]