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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Desert Pea Media
A new generation of deadly, young poets has emerged in Australia.
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Jeanine Leane, Red Room Poetry
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…
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Alison Whittaker
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…
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Paul Hetherington,Cassandra Atherton
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…
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COVID-19 has resulted in changes none of us could have imagined, but what happens next?
Emma Dawson,Janet McCalman
With contributions from some of Australia’s most respected academics and leading thinkers, What Happens Next? sets out a progressive, reforming agenda to tackle the twin crises of climate change and…
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Helen Elliott
An unmissable collection of writing on what it means to be a grandmother-edited by literary journalist and writer Helen Elliott.
Leah Kaminsky,Meg Keneally
A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia’s unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability.
Sweatshop Women is an exciting and contemporary collection of prose and poetry written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. In this second volume, Australia’s most urgent new voices…
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia’s most daring writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia in the year 2050.
Experimental, genre-bending, lucid stories of the future from the inaugural Liminal Fiction Prize longlist.
In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is…
Sophie Cunningham
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one…
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The annual collection - now in its tenth year - celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.
