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WILLIAMSON & ISEMONGER SHORTLISTED

WILLIAMSON & ISEMONGER SHORTLISTED

Congratulations to Caroline Williamson and Holly Isemonger for being shortlisted for the 2023 FIVE ISLAND POETRY PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK.

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Award-winning Australian Poetry

CELEBRATING OUR SPONSORS & READERS We're a small press working out of a love for new writing and innovation in publishing. Vagabond Press gratefully acknowledges the generous souls and institutions who share our vision and passion for the outer reaches of language and the imagination.
CELEBRATING OUR SPONSORS & READERS We're a small press working out of a love for new writing and innovation in publishing. Vagabond Press gratefully acknowledges the generous souls and institutions who share our vision and passion for the outer reaches of language and the imagination.

'...fascinating from the onset ... these three fierce Korean poets are readily accessible to the English-reading world, some of which is weary of nationalist vectors at home and increasingly open to previously marginalized voices abroad. These three Miraepa poets are breaking down borders.'

Korean Literature Now

'The Asia Pacific Poetry Series is a major opportunity for readers to enter into the complexity of the emotional worlds of our surrounding region.'

Transnational Literature

'The story of Rizky and Julita is the story of Indonesia in conflict with itself: the traditional, rule-respecting side and the independent side, yearning for political, artistic and personal freedoms. Theirs is a universal coming of age story, and a love story.'

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
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'Boyle explodes the physical and spiritual world around him as he is confronted with the end of life in the one he loves. In this deeply affecting work, he channels the pain and wonder of what it means to live and to be human in a transient world.'

Winner of the Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry in the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

'The collection bursts with jokes, wordplay, curious facts, and striking thoughts expressed with the evident delight of an unexpected discovery. Its vibrant and brilliantly angular poems are full of surprising rhythmic effects, their tone by turns playful, arch, knowing and amused.'

Winner of ALS Gold Medal & Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry
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