Recent Work Press - Böcker

In each of the stories in this collection, the authors examine the conundrum and contradiction of human experience through carefully crafted narrative detail. The brevity of short-form fiction makes it an apt vessel for capturing the haunting inco...

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Intellectually ambitious and culturally engaged, these poems speak of Sartre, Zola and Jackson Pollock, of Western Australia's firewatch trees and Dubbo's gibbons, of the poet-batsman Stevie Smith, of youth and age. Ranging in form, James Luc...

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In  Our Tongues Are Songs,  Rico Craig pursues the intimate, the voices people use as they speak to their private fears. Craig brings his unique ear for lyricism, his eye for human need, to bear on the promises people make to themselves ...

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If we are to speak, what is it we must speak? If we are allowed to speak, what is it we must say? Who constitutes the 'we' that speaks? Anne Elvey's new collection frames such questions against the contemporary world and its multiple challenges. T...

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Stephen Gilfedder's  Way Stations  features selected poems from the past 40 and more years. The chronology leads us from the contemporary to his initial fully realised work. Throughout, people - in their various guises, locations an...

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In  Animals with Human Voices  you will find worms that dream of god, jellyfish weary of immortality, a powerless Superman, some illogical observations on aliens', a lightning conductor tired of lightning and the truth about Elvis. ...

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This bilingual Homings and Departures anthology presents the absorbing and compelling poetry of 41 outstanding Australian poets in both English and Mandarin. The anthology is the result of a collaboration between poets, scholars and translators fr...

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In this lyrical, often wry, sometimes heartbreaking and just occasionally horrifying selection of poems, internationally award-winning poet, Anne Casey invites you to step into her shoes, take a self-guided cruise through the State of Womanhood wi...

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Imagine if six famous protagonists transcended chronological and geographical barriers to come together through a poetry group in Adelaide. Rhymes with Hyenas is an inventive narrative of emails and poetry that gives a female voice to characters o...

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What would you do if you looked up and saw that the night sky was darker than usual? That the stars had disappeared, and nobody was doing anything about it? What do you do when a loved one tells you that their world is darker than usual? That they...

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the moment, taken  is Jennifer Compton's eleventh book of poetry. At this late stage she has yielded to the absolute lure of eidectic memory. That is - 'relating to or denoting images having unusual vividness and detail as if actually visible...

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'F-words' is less expletive, more reconnaissance flight. In this five-year exploratory survey of territory that might include poetry, Malins forays into fables, fauna and flora, family, feminism, faraway and further. Whether in factual, fictive, f...

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I am the glass with all this inside my transparent walls     the sun     the moon     the bubbles     all this intoxication Penny Drysdale invites readers into her hom...

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Hyperbole , Belinda Rule's debut full length collection, contains the poems from the 2019 Anne-Elder-commended chapbook,  The Things the Mind Sees Happen , as well as a careful selection of previous work spanning the past ten years. These are...

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2021 is the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, author of the long narrative poetic trilogy,  The Divine  C omedy . In a time of global pandemic, Dante's exploration of the relationship between the physical and spirit...

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Based on historical, biographical and geographic research,  Sometimes a Woman  explores the lives of 19th-century women-prostitutes and madams-who helped settle America's Wild West . Filled with voices that were mostly silenced in their ...

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Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image- White Clouds Blue Rain  captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail. Taking cues from artists, writers and arch...

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What We Carry brings together the voices of more than 60 contemporary Australian poets to provide accounts of childbearing that are both lyrical and embodied. Featuring diverse voices and perspectives on experiences of infertility, conception, ter...

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Over the last five years, from the #Me Too Movement to same-sex marriage, from devastating bush fires to the global pandemic, the online poetry journal  Not Very Quiet  has dedicated itself to publishing women's voices from across the gl...

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Borderless presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets reflecting on feminism in its broadest sense. While it builds on the work of previous anthologies, in this one the voices of First ...

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Hesiod's Five Ages famously proides a vision of the decline of human society that has resonated for many centuries. In this anthology, five poets take Hesiod's versions of the golden, silver, bronze, heroic and iron ages as their starting points t...

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In April 2020, amidst the global pandemic of Covid-19, the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia, sent a call for contributions to The Incompleten...

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In his first full-length poetry collection,  Natural Philosophies , Michael J. Leach grasps for truth and solace by embracing interdisciplinary perspectives and alternative meanings. The poems in this collection address the archaic term 'natu...

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Beginning in Sight  is Theodore Ell's first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and recouple bygone experience to the drifting...

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Via numerous portrait poems of real and fictitious people revealed in  Our Ways On Earth  Peter Bakowski returns our attention to the individual. Via clear, non-judgemental portraiture  Our Ways On Earth  saves, for our conside...

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True to its title, the poems in O'Hagan's second poetry collection,  Anamnesis , allude to a world hovering at the edges of our minds, one that can be sensed and yet lies, teasingly, just beyond conscious reach. The arc of poems through time ...

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Anita Patel's second collection of poetry takes us on a voyage into history, heritage, mythology and family. These poems scatter and drift through layers of time, across cultures and continents. They offer glimpses into past worlds and present rea...

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These are poems of love and loss, they imagine a world where hawks fly from the arms of lovers and disappear into a dying world, where golden fish rise from rivers and tangle themselves in hair, where molecules and mist carry messages of love thro...

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In 1778, Dorothy Wordsworth's mother died, and the six-year-old Dorothy was sent to live with extended family. She never returned to the family home, and it was not until adolescence that Dorothy became reacquainted with her brother William. The t...

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