A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Ide...

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.

Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. "Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination", she wrote. Her research involved "dark matter" (hidden mass which...

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 for meaning".

A substantial selection drawn from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing.

"Raking Light" is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of "raking light", in whi...

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the "pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing". Into this pause, Owe...

Lucy Tunstall's striking debut collection features a cast of characters ranging from Paul Muldoon and Marianne Moore to Aunt Jane, who fell in love "in 1956, or thereabouts", and Cousin Gillian, who keeps the family's long-case clock in her caravan (...

"I should never ask / directions to my childhood", writes Fred D'Aguiar: there is no way back home. "The Rose of Toulouse" is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away...

In a series of ninety-five poems we listen to "the Reasoner", a voice that is by turns ardent, despairing and comic. Petty obsessions rub against attempts at philosophical seriousness; vernacular expression vies with an intent deliberation. Above all...