THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO JOINED OUR 2026 JUST ONE BOOK CAMPAIGN
In January 2026 we held our annual Just One Book Campaign, asking our readers and writers to buy a book over the month in an effort to gain a bit of breathing room and shelf space at the start of 2026. We set the goal this time of seeing 300 books out to readers over the month, with our final tally reaching 136 books on their way to readers. We're extremely grateful for the support from everyone, readers and writers alike chipping in to keep new space open for new contemporary writing that otherwise might not find readers.
Thank you thank you thank you, lovely generous souls: Amy Crutchfield, Emilie Collyer, John Turner, Adam Aitken, Esther Ottaway, Beth Spencer, Elaine Minor, Sandy Libling, Susan Potter, Daniel Wilksch, Judith Bishop, Michael Bungay Stanier, Cheryl Howard, Virginia Coventry, Shona Bridge, Jodie Young, Melinda Graefe, Sue Bond, Gareth Morgan, Jo Langdon, David Drayton, Clare Carlin, Bella Li, Pamela Carmody, Gordon Duncan, Shiara Shyra, Nikita Kostachuk, Broede Carmody, Georgina Woods, John Potts, Mal McKimmie, Lucy Stewart, Susie Burge, Nick Whittock, Anthony Messenger, Laurence Levy-Atkinson, Paul Carter, Eugene Gilfedder, Anders Villani, Ray Walker, Liam Ferney, Mitchell Welch, Fiona Hile, Sarah St Vincent Welch, Jennifer Mackenzie, John Ramm, Kathy Rushton, Stuart Cooke, Eliza Burke, Brendon McLeod, Vicki Packer, Meera Atkinson, Barbara Flowers, Michael Winkler, Lisa Windon, Helena Spyrou, Shirley Lu, Anna Black, Rosalind McFarlane, Jessica Hafner, Sharyn Munro, Miroslav Sandev, Dijanne Cevaal, Martha Landman, Peter Boyle, Alex Creece, Mark O'Flynn, Jo Gardiner, Julie U'Ren, Philip Mead, Zoe Kingsley, Michele Giblett, Lesh Karan, Kristian Radford, Patrick Allington, Faye Brinsmead, Prudence Clark, Suzanne Verrall, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Chris Lynch, Tru Paraha, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat.
New Releases
LK Holt wins the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry
Congratulations to Lucy Holt who has won the Queensland Literary Awards with her most recent collection Three Books.
'These are the work of a poet at the peak of her considerable technical abilities and imaginative range ... Holt transforms language into invocation, holding it by its stem.'
Judith Wright Calanthe Award Judges
WINNER OF THE 2024 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS — KENNETH SLESSOR AWARD FOR POETRY
"With its beautiful pacing and intimate lyrical voice, Tais Rose Wae’s Riverbed Sky Songs draws us into its world of making and remaking, its sensuously crafted lines and graceful cadences braiding thought, emotion and image into poems that radiate wonder and beauty. Reading these poems, it feels like we are participating in their unfolding, in physical acts of weaving and shaping ideas and feelings into something real, something ‘to be held / with care, with custodianship’. It is a truly marvellous first book, its freshness of voice and vision promising restoration and renewal in its enchanting music and quiet, pristine beauty.
Riverbed Sky Songs opens with ‘Epilogue to Ceremony’, its first lines ‘We found an early dream of you / in the rockpool fringed with grass’ discovering a space for an exquisite conversation between unborn child and mother. From here a journey expands with the arrival of the child through vision to womb to encompass a poetic encounter with place and self over the first seasons of the child’s life. This intimate, delicate tracery of water and land, self, connection and solitude invites the reader to witness the intricate networks it maps. This is an intuitive, meticulously braided and integrated work of quiet, dauntless power, shaped by a quality of reverent attentiveness."
NSW Premier's Literary Awards Judges' comments
Izzy Roberts-Orr's 'Raw Salt' WINS the 2024 Anne Elder Award
'Raw Salt impresses as a magnificent collection of lyric craft and poetic invention. Roberts-Orr traverses landscapes and griefscapes through poems that display a quiet and genuine confidence in lyric form. Every poem in Raw Salt achieves emotional realism and is maximally realised, offering arresting effects in imagery and aphoristic insight, and speaking in a coherent, distinctive and persuasive voice. Thoughtfully curated and finely concentrated, the poems bring about a change in feeling, moving from grief at family loss to an outlook on life that is wary of illusions. Raw Salt is an extraordinarily skilled and impressive debut. It is a joy to tread these expansive poems that reveal more depth with each reading.' 2024 Anne Elder Award Judges' report
Award-winning Australian Poetry
Shortlisted and award-winning collections
Poetry
'This book is the business! Smart-mouthed, pussy-bowed. Pitch perfect filthy snippets of office lore and career advice.'
'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.'
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