Australian poetry

Through Old Eyes
Published to commemorate the author's 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people.
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Harvest Lingo
Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland
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The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets
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The Jaguar
A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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Cartwarra or What?: Selected Poems and Short Stories
Alf Taylor's stories and poems offer a vivid picture of the care, kindness and gentleness of Aboriginal families and communities and their enduring strength, resourcefulness and power.
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Acanthus
New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.
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Birds (60th Anniversary Edition)
The poems in Birds commemorate Judith's love of birds, while on a deeper level exploring a gamut of very human experiences, from the delightful, to the humorous, to the sorrowful.
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At the Altar of Touch
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
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Best of Australian Poems 2021
Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was
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How Decent Folk Behave
A vibrant, thought-provoking collection from the ABIA and Indie award-winning author of The Hate Race and Carrying the World.
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Revenants
The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that the present and the past are intertwined.
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White Clouds Blue Rain
Told through a series triptychs White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail.
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Whisper Songs
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
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How to Make a Basket
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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Human Looking
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender
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Dropbear
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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The Fire of Joy
In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.
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A Thousand Crimson Blooms
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet.
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My People
Oodgeroo's writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection of poetry and prose and a reminder of Oodgeroo's contributionto indigenous culture and the journey to reconciliation. .
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Sweet River
'In Sweet River's wash of water and words, there's an implicit message. Humanity might be the great polluter, the river's enemy, but it will all live on, preserved in language OE But there's always the sweet river, pristine and...
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best...
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Guwayu, For All Times: A Collection of First Nations poems
Guwayu, For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years, and is a radical literary intervention for its breadth of representation, temporal depth and diversity of...
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The Weave
The Weave is the second book collaboration between Thurston Moore and John Kinsella - 'dubbed a work in progress by the two poets, the book guides readers through a world in decay, crafting an invigo rating language of spontaneity...
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Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices
A new generation of deadly, young poets has emerged in Australia.
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Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today
Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nations poetry showcasing some of the brightest new stars, as well as leading Aboriginal writers and poets including Bruce Pascoe, Ali...
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Element
Using chemistry as an indexing trope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundations and fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties and its inherent assumption of many as yet...
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Turbulence
In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal and confessional, taken from the authors own life, these poems speak to...
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I Don’t Know How That Happened
In turns unsettling and funny, Oliver Driscoll's debut collection is a testament to the mundane resonances of contemporary life and language. Driscoll's wry eye captures the subtle whimsy of the everyday, while exploring the...
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Throat
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven.
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Navigable Ink
Jennifer Mackenzie's Navigable Ink is a rare poetic exploration of Indonesian writer and activist Pramoedya Ananta Toer's tragic, visionary and ultimately triumphant life. With skill, knowledge and sensitivity Mackenzie captures...
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Late Murrumbidgee Poems
'My real life experiences are here - expressed guts and all - far more honestly than before, and hang the consequences in the open.' - John Mukky Burke
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A Kinder Sea
An outstanding collection from one of Australia's most highly regarded poets.
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Of Memory and Furniture
This collection in four parts explores experiences of female embodiment, sexuality, and relationships with family, lovers and institutions.
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Towards the End
This collection of poems presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection may be described as a fusion of social satire, gothic dystopia...
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Harbour
Quiet and insightful, raw in its simplicity, this collection of poems from iconic Australian poet Kate Llewellyn, written between the years of 2000 to 2019, examines a life well lived, dipping in and out of memory to tell a tale...
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The Mirror Hurlers
In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape - traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers an equally wide range of...
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Malcolm: A Story in Verse
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Heide
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 to Vassilief, Nolan, Tucker, Joy...
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Kindred
Kindred, Kirli Saunders debut poetry collection, is a pleasure to lose yourself in.
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Empirical
The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction.
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The Future Keepers
The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies.
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The Lost Arabs
Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.
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Interval
The much anticipated second volume from award-winning poet Judith Bishop.
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blur by the
'blur by the' is a collection of fractures: poems navigating longing and dis[place]ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food and eroticism.
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apparently
The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered.
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I Love Poetry
Michael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do.
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Rondo
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in Rondo a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to 'troubling the stubborn world...
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Tilt
Tilt follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbo's Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of...
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Contemporary Australian Poetry
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Blakwork
Alison Whittaker's Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.
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Green Shadows and other poems
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life.
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Collected Poems
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.
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A Trillion Tiny Awakenings
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Just Give Me The Pills
From the author of the Australian poetry bestseller, Love and F--k Poems, Just Give Me The Pills is yet another brilliant novel-in-verse.
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An Open Book
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False Claims of Colonial Thieves
From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tête-à-tête that is powerful, thought provoking, and challenges what we think we know about our country, colonisation, and how we...
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The River in the Sky
A meditation on death and life from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
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Subtraction
Winner of the 2017 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award Taking its cues from Rimbaud's call for the reinvention of love, Subtraction tours the hologrammatic labyrinths of the English language to ask again: What is love? And what does the...
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Domestic Interior
The poems in Domestic Interior draw together varieties of suburban experience and imagination, charting places that are vibrant, plangent and comical.
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Lost Lake
Following on from the groundbreaking Argosy, Li's second collection Lost Lake ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination
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Flood Damages
Powerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet
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Milk Teeth
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
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These Wild Houses
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Comfort Food
Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection. Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food...
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Carrying the World
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship with words.
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Inside My Mother
In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but in other ways a magical place 'beyond...
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Millefiori
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Love Poems and Death Threats
Love Poems and Death Threats breaks new ground for Indigenous Australian writing and adds to Samuel Wagan Watson's reputation as one of our most exciting poets.
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