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The poems gathered here offer an alternative to the streams, echo chambers and silos of contemporary media and return the reader to the deep flow and entanglement of human consciousness and language unique to poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1999, Vagabond Press has quietly grown to become one of the leading publishers of poetry and poetry in translation in Australia, creating a transnational list that includes some of the key poets and poetry translators of the Asia Pacific region. Marking twenty-five years of hardscrabble independent small press publishing, \u003cem\u003eLiving Systems\u003c\/em\u003e showcases poets from Australia and across Asia Pacific, and offers a snapshot of poetry, poetics and life in all its complexity, nuance and possibility at the start of the twenty-first century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith over 400 pages of poetry from around 170 poets and translators from Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, America, New Zealand, Mexico and elsewhere, \u003cem\u003eLiving Systems\u003c\/em\u003e marks twenty-five years of small press publishing by Vagabond Press and celebrates poetry and individual human creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVagabond Press 25th Anniversary Anthology\u003cbr\u003e2024. 160mm x 240mm. 440pp. \u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-68-0\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor international readers (ie outside Australia), an international edition is now available via Amazon so you can order and save on postage. 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There’s certainly no glamour here, but a heightened sense of the messiness of life that’s no less endearing. It’s the little things that give the book its sense of purpose and even beauty: a slushy left in an outdoor carpark, coconut oil used as lubricant, blackout blinds drawn at midday, a guava Cruiser sunset.' Thuy On in \u003cem\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDOGHOUSE\u003c\/em\u003e is a map of 20-something millennial Sydney, drawn with sharp lines and a rough hand. Against the backdrop of climate disaster, lockdowns, Black Summer, and floods, these poems punch down backstreets, trying to keep alive. Frenetic and strung out, they parry a sense of finiteness, of collapse—but grapple with it, and somehow find a way to cope. Here, things bend if not break: leaves and branches, hips, panic, hearts, tension storms, pulleys, relationships, beats. Inspired by the likes of Eileen Myles and Chris Kraus, these poems etch out the awe-eating emotions that light up our little flesh-sacks with feeling. They act as both witness to our times, our ways of coping—and through their creation, are acts of coping. Even in the mess, there’s a joy—something untidy, a little fucked, endorphin riddled—to live for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Timely and urgent, \u003cem\u003eDOGHOUSE\u003c\/em\u003e explores the anxieties of our age—from climate change to the overwhelming noise of modern life—unravelling these pressures through a unique combination of dark humour, wit and vulnerability.’  Jake Goetz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘… sharp, ambitious, and littered with dark humour. 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Divisible by three, these poems trace the conditions of existence through mysterious collaborations of self, other and language, 'slightly off-key', 'barely here'. In her exploration of the poetics of emergence, Jones is galvanised by inexorable process and the persistence of contradiction: 'I understand what I don't about some of this'; 'An endless dream escapes me' ... Advancing by non-propositional proposition, chances and crossings, How To Emerge is an absorbing, elegant collection of poetic numbers operating at the threshold of the personal and the impersonal. In its richly suggestive representation of worldly entanglement, it solicits readers willing to enter into a pact of mutual attention and unpredictable exchange.' 2026 Prime Minister's Literary Award judges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003eWhat pathways can humans explore to find growth, understanding and even peace? The task for any poet exploring these themes is to proceed free of sentimentality, cliché or proselytisation. \u003cem\u003eHow To Emerge\u003c\/em\u003e navigates these challenges with a combination of lyrical clarity and astonishing imagery. Jill Jones demonstrates an overarching sense of control as the poems unfurl an exploration of both language and lives. There is a quiet, depth-defying resonance throughout the book as it skates between sky, asphalt, weed, wharf, vulnerability and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe possibilities for self are made endless through observation of the infinitesimal and ephemeral. Meaning emerges incrementally through rhythm, image and pause. Jones demonstrates a mastery of catalogue and repetition; with each reconfiguration, the world appears new, providing both answer and question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJones masterfully clips fragments of fact, inquiry and observation into a whispered wonder. These poems discover humanity, perhaps even meaning in the accumulating weight of the world; we are star dust, but we are also the brat summer. Part of the appeal of these poems is the rare faith they show in the reader, a belief that readers will find their own meaning and carry from the collection something of the warmth, humour and care that radiates from the poems.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards judges\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'To Emerge showcases the work of a poet in full, late, and enduring maturity. Its tonal gifts register a seasoned (and cyclic) pitch towards the future, \"ungathered now \/ a wheel across a field\" in which every ‘outline is its shimmer’ and the shimmer becomes an invitational dance to the reader to \"Let in the undone sky!\"' Shari Lynelle Kocher in \u003cem\u003eABR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Emerge\u003c\/em\u003e, the latest collection from award-winning poet Jill Jones, is filled with visions and ghosts, doubles and shadows. It also explores the living and damaged body, as it dances with humans, birds, animals, leaves, the weather, digital assemblage, sound and song, the elements and the planet. Within this, a self grows into its moment and continues moving beyond itself. Questing and agile, these poems mingle in the world’s imperilled present and its past and future emergencies and losses. The book has an exhilarating and spontaneous sense of passage as the everyday touches everything here: life as it emerges and turns in seasons and trauma, desire and distance, scars and social ecologies, night and day, the music of the world, variations of joy, doubt and grief. As always, Jones’ poems are capacious, haunting and invigorating, as she offers a queer and tactile swerve through the desires and debris of past and present, and the uncanny echoes of our approaching futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eHow To Emerge\u003c\/em\u003e, like all of Jill Jones’s work, exquisitely captures the attention of the heart and the mind. In its artful concern with the interplay between the human and the nonhuman, Jones adds to our understanding of identity as something continuous with, rather than somehow ‘above’, the material world. In addition to its subtle intellectual concerns, \u003cem\u003eHow to Emerge\u003c\/em\u003e further demonstrates Jones’s standing as a master poet, illustrating poetry’s potential in endlessly playful and inventive ways.’ David McCooey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Jill Jones’s collection \u003cem\u003eHow To Emerge\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable as it uses elements of avant-garde poetry but also has a pronounced lyric core, one that in itself both enunciates and problematises the perceiving self, which is at once vigilantly present, perplexed in its own constitution, and content to register externals—that which is not subjective, not even human—without any overarching or hubristic judgment.’ Nicholas Birns, New York University, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJill Jones lives on Kaurna land. One of her most recent books \u003cem\u003eAcrobat Music: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was shorted listed for the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards, longlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Other recent books include \u003cem\u003eWild Curious Air,\u003c\/em\u003e winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and \u003cem\u003eA History Of What I’ll Become\u003c\/em\u003e, shortlisted for the 2021 Kenneth Slessor Award and the 2022 John Bray Award. In 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work is widely published in Australia and internationally. An entry on her poetry is included in the current edition of T\u003cem\u003ehe Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English\u003c\/em\u003e. She was, from 2008-2022, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide. 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Its serious yet often tender intelligence traverses a shifting web of selves, via encounter, modern memory and ancient resonances, replete with inventories of many things including desks, drawers, linen, a chainsaw, gloves, chairs, an Aeolian harp, animals such as antelopes, gannets and greyhounds, and tellingly, ‘smoke from a chimney’. The formal order of the poems is an architecture itself, setting up a performative space where the repressed can disrupt and reassemble. 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Distinctive, conversational, and with a dash of humour, these poems chart a course of encroaching darkness and slow recovery, building towards a resounding expression of acceptance and hope. Much more than an autopsy of struggle however, \u003cem\u003eToo Much Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an attempt to reconcile the absurdity of the natural world, a return to a coastal childhood where missing pieces were always just out of reach, and a full-throated hymn to the power of names. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘In \u003cem\u003eToo Much Night\u003c\/em\u003e, Laurence has produced a collection of poetry whose roots stem from a deeply personal journey but whose audience is universal. The poems centre around their author’s lived experience of undiagnosed major mental illness and builds towards a resounding expression of acceptance and hope. It is a work of literary significance that deserves a wide audience.’ Bronwyn Mehan, \u003cem\u003eSpineless Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘In a world of 24-hour news cycles and attention-grabbing TikTok videos, Levy-Atkinson’s lyric poetry is a soothing balm. His work touches on the lead-up to – and aftermath of – his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder diagnosis, a mental health condition first identified in the early 17th century yet still poorly understood by the general public. Importantly, he writes about his struggles in a way that is not alarmist or defeatist, illustrating that there is no linear road to diagnosis or recovery.’ Broede Carmody\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurence Levy-Atkinson is a writer and poet, raised in Brisbane and based in Melbourne. 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It captures an ancient conversation: one that soars between Mountain and woman, land spirit and human spirit, softening and strengthening. Tenderly honouring Davis’s Ngāpuhi and Scottish ancestry, rewarming and reviving ancestral language, it unfurls what her ancestors call \u003cem\u003earoha\u003c\/em\u003e: a compassion that buds in the tracery of rivers, oceans, beats from within our own pulse-blessed veins. This debut collection is an ode to healing and gentleness. It rustles with \u003cem\u003ereturn\u003c\/em\u003e: a return to body, to wildness, to the steadily-beating heart of presence.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Eartha is a brilliant young poet whose work is devoted to the natural world. It is an ode to the ephemeral, the physical, the eternal, to the magic that lives and breathes through and beyond us all. It is a gorgeous celebration of human and non-human bodies and an invitation to dissolve the boundaries between them. In today’s world, stripped of romanticism and myth by capitalism, colonisation, and mass industrialisation, Eartha’s poetry is not only a salve, but a much-needed solution—a gentle plea to remember ourselves, to recall our relationship with the land, and to move towards love.’  Alisha Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Whichever way into this book is the most useful for first readings, it remains a very strange poetry, unlike any I have seen around the place. Rhapsodic, allusive, interweaving elements, shifting shape and all in all challenging the reader: always a sign that a book is worth looking at carefully.' Martin Duwell, Australia Poetry Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. She is the winner of the AAWP\/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and the recipient of a 2025 Varuna Residential Fellowship. In 2024, Davis was an intern at Red Room poetry, working closely on their POEM FOREST project to publish over 5,400 nature poems written by students and teachers across the continent; a tree was planted for every poem published. She placed second in the 2022 Woorilla Poetry Prize Louise Rockne Youth section and was long-listed for the 2024 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. 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Wesley Michel Wright Award judges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I wouldn’t often recommend a book of poetry by saying, “You will hardly notice it doing you good” – but on this occasion that is exactly what I am saying.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eJennifer Compton, \u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs If I’m Really There\u003c\/em\u003e builds thematically and artistically on Emilie Collyer’s award-winning debut collection \u003cem\u003eDo You Have Anything Less Domestic? \u003c\/em\u003eThis second collection digs deeply into Collyer’s avid feminine and feminist interest in the place of the body: what it feels like to have one, how bodies are gendered, assessed, analysed and valued, how the body of an artist and a body of creative work is forged. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘With a fierce, vulnerable, wayfaring intelligence, Emilie Collyer swerves and weaves through the thickets of bodies, gender, culture and influence like no-one else. \u003cem\u003eAs If I’m Really There \u003c\/em\u003eis a breathtakingly daring and sensitising collection of poems.’ Andy Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘In this, her follow-up collection to \u003cem\u003eDo You Have Anything Less Domestic?\u003c\/em\u003e, Collyer extends and deepens the formal and feminist boundaries of her work to impressive effect. This book roams far and wide, moving into the past, nudging the present and winking at the speculative. Pop culture, literary and theatrical works are all present in the heady, febrile swirl of lives examined.’ Thuy On\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri land, where she writes poetry, plays and prose. Her debut full-length poetry collection \u003cem\u003eDo you have anything less domestic? \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands First Book Prize. She has been runner-up in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2024) and shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2024) and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2025). Her poetry and essays are published across a wide range of literary and scholarly journals locally and internationally. Emilie’s plays include \u003cem\u003eContest, Dream Home \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e The Good Girl \u003c\/em\u003ewhich has had multiple international productions. Her plays have won and been nominated for numerous awards including the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (London), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Awards, George Fairfax, Patrick White and Malcolm Robertson. Emilie’s play \u003cem\u003eSuper\u003c\/em\u003e was commissioned by Red Stitch Theatre’s INK program and premiered in 2025. She is currently under commission with The Street Theatre, creating a new work \u003cem\u003eThe Signal Makers\u003c\/em\u003e with composer Jess Green. Emilie works as a dramaturg, text consultant and teacher with artists and institutions including VCA, RMIT and Writers Victoria. 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In their sustained attention to the work and life of Alina Szapocznikow, from her visceral visual artworks to the epistolary expressions of her archives and enduring significance as a figure of art and history, Langdon expands the possibilities of ekphrasis and documentary poetry in exacting and exciting new ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘... sophisticated, impactful, and highly engaging through the many ways it takes up the life and art of Polish Holocaust survivor and sculptor, Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973). The poems are sometimes found, sometimes imagined, sometimes fragmentary details of a life lived against an overwhelming history, sometimes political reflections, or imaginative evocations. In addition to this there is a sharply observed and keenly felt section of poems on giving birth—a rivetingly emotional and intellectually curious suite. I have not read a collection with such sustained intensity of experiment with form and imagination from an Australian poet for many years.’ KEVIN BROPHY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJo Langdon lives and writes on unceded Wadawurrung land. Her poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eSnowline\u003c\/em\u003e (Whitmore Press, 2012) and \u003cem\u003eGlass Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Five Islands Press, 2018). She has received fellowships from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in Bulgaria, the National Library of Australia, and the Wheeler Centre, and her fiction was a recent runner-up in the \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. 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War and sex erupt next to cats and gardens, axes close to requiems and polo shirts. The world is both normal and also weird or estranged in this captivating book and its title, as incorporated into a short poem, reflects succinctly this urgent, and at times poignant, oscillation between poetic tonalities: \"black earth \/ new grass \/ my divided heart.\"'  JILL JONES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Earth, New Grass\u003c\/em\u003e, the debut collection from Janet Jiahui Wu, arises from a meditative space of fragile presences. In a world where interruption is constant, and the pull from the real is evermore powerful, these poems stand as testimony to what is simple, true, and often fleeting. Emotions that arrest us, natural wonders that delight and scare us, loves that heal and break us, places made of memories that elude us, these are the things the poems speak of. 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In Gomez’s distinctive voice, which playfully shifts registers and takes on a range of sonically distinct modes, these poems deepen our sensorial experiences of ecological crisis under capitalism. \u003cem\u003eAll Down, Honey\u003c\/em\u003e takes up language as a metabolic material, unfolding as a cascading series of images and sounds—from nurdles spilled into the ocean, deep sea mining and sacrifice zones to laundromat raves, stone fruit and neighbourhood possums. It expertly blends everyday human experiences, non-human animal subjectivities, global flows of materials and information, and the ongoing extractive processes that fuel those flows. Gomez writes about the constant motion that makes up everyday life, and the strange occurrences we might observe if we attempt to pause for a moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElena Gomez lives on unceded Wurundjeri country. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBody of Work\u003c\/em\u003e (2018, Cordite Books), \u003cem\u003eAdmit the Joyous Passion of Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e (2020, Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann) and \u003cem\u003eGoats\u003c\/em\u003e (2025, RunAmok Press), as well as several chapbooks and pamphlets. \u003cem\u003eBody of Work\u003c\/em\u003e, was Highly Commended in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Elena’s poetry has previously been highly commended and shortlisted in the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Fair Work Prize. Elena is currently the Poetry Editor at \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e journal. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eAll Down, Honey\u003c\/em\u003e manifests new ways to give tender attention to multiple scales of colonial catastrophe—through reading, striking, loving, collecting. Salvaged scraps of language and story are part-collaged, part-composted to test the stark limits of public discourse around ecological crisis.’ KATE FAGAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElena Gomez, \u003cem\u003eAll Down, Honey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForthcoming April 2026. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-84-0\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921.png?v=1701428706\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47563551506589,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Gomez_Web_cover_136d802e-a5df-4938-936a-5583e83a2a41.jpg?v=1772142385"},{"product_id":"april-2026-australian-poetry-bundle-5-books","title":"April 2026 Australian Poetry Bundle (5 Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAPRIL 2026 NEW RELEASES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Janet Jiahui Wu, \u003cem\u003eBlack Earth, New Grass \u003c\/em\u003e(Debut collection)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Miroslav Sandev, \u003cem\u003eEcholalia\u003c\/em\u003e (Debut collection)\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Elena Gomez, \u003cem\u003eAll Down, Honey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    John Kinsella, \u003cem\u003eConsolations: After Boethius\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Jo Langdon, \u003cem\u003eDelivery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921.png?v=1701428706\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47636350632093,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/2026Bundle_web.jpg?v=1772142946"},{"product_id":"peter-boyle-the-wide-starless-silence","title":"Peter Boyle, The Wide Starless Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Late in his career, Boyle has embarked on one of the most sustained flights of inspiration of any writer currently working. The results are luminous.’ Declan Fry, ABC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe natural world, dream material and childhood memory are interwoven across The Wide Starless Silence, a book-length sequence of poems that continues Boyle’s late career exploration of questions of mortality, human values, time, art, ethical action and our place in the natural world. Arranged in three sections modulated by different seasons and thematic emphases, the book examines experiences of loss, grief and ageing, and the role of memory, love and artistic creativity in resisting despair. Although these experiences are intensely personal they offer a philosophically charged engagement with questions of mortality, selfhood and meaning vested in a shared humanity. Building on his previous award-winning collections, such as Enfolded in the Wings of Darkness and Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions, The Wide Starless Silence offers a sustained dialogue with the cosmos’ apparent silence and makes explicit a spirituality that has evolved through the consolations and insights of a lifetime devoted to art, philosophy and creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The poems’ psychological and emotional pressure points are those embedded in the experience of loss, uncertainty, aging, and fragility in fragmented times. They are profound responses to a difficult world. Each piece flows easefully and skilfully between the intrinsic and the extrinsic, creating an intensity and resonance barely matched by other contemporary poets.’ Judith Beveridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Boyle is a poet and translator of poetry living and working on Dharug land. He has ten books of poetry published and eight books as a translator of poetry from Spanish and French. His most recent collections are \u003cem\u003eCompanions, Ancestors, Inscriptions\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), \u003cem\u003eIdeas of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e (2022) and \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). In 2020 his book Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness won the New South Wales Premier's Award for Poetry. His book \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e also received the New South Wales Premier's Award in 2017. Other prize-winning books include \u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eComing Home from the World\u003c\/em\u003e (1993). He has performed his poetry at International Poetry Festivals in Colombia, France, Venezuela, Macedonia, Canada, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Spain. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Macedonian, Vietnamese, Korean and Russian. As a translator his books include Anima by Cuban poet José Kozer, T\u003cem\u003ehe Trees: Selected Poems of Eugenio Montejo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThree Poets: Olga Orozco, Marosa Di Giorgio and Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2013 he was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Award for Literary Translation. 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The collection draws from the traditional Chinese concept of \u003cem\u003emian zi\u003c\/em\u003e, or ‘saving face’, and is steeped in the pain of inherited silences, self-censorship and cultural anxieties around womanhood. However, such silences are always couched side by side with subversiveness, survival, and hard-won joy, surfacing in each poem through unexpected images—a cooked trout, a field of white snow, mango cakes. Hybrid in form and experimental in content, the collection asks the reader to contemplate the limitations of the English language on colonised land: ‘In another life, I would still have words, \/ but not these words.’ \u003cem\u003eQuestions I’m Scared to Ask at Parties \u003c\/em\u003edeftly weaves together the emotional, the domestic, and the political, introducing a vital new voice to Australian poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘What stands out in this collection is the sound of a unique and compelling poetic voice. Emerging poets often have the beginnings of what will become their singular tone but in a more tentative register. There is nothing tentative about Cai. She writes with the ferocity and conviction of a poet in full command of her craft. I have no doubt she is a writer who will quickly establish herself as a key voice in Australian and international poetry and whose work we will be reading for many years to come.’ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEMILIE COLLYER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRhea Cai is a poet and writer based in Sydney. As a poet, she is interested in writing about the unsayable\/untranslatable, generational memory, and the diaspora experience. In her fiction writing, she is interested in science fiction, fantasy, and strange, but familiar worlds. Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Australian Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The impossible task of living inside a body that breathes and remembers is deciphered, held close, and delivered in Heron’s singular measured voice; clear, each word earned, delivered with ease.’ LEAH DODD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘In Bronte Heron’s \u003cem\u003eNightime Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e, language evolves into landscape. This is a poet who gives careful attention to the poem’s continuous thread; lines break seamlessly as the poet cultivates a quiet watching – of nature, the stones of childhood, and the elasticity of time. The membrane between person, earth, and animal becomes malleable, each poem approaching the precision of a still life painting. Heron is a brilliant poet who writes with an uncanny poise; I’m amazed by the sinewy intelligence and dexterity of these lines. 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Rather than offering pastoral idealisation or environmental consolation, the collection dwells with uncertainty, responsibility, and the labour of staying with what is compromised. By focusing on small, ongoing acts of care,\u003cem\u003e Nighttime Gardener \u003c\/em\u003earticulates ways of living and writing within entangled, damaged worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Like all the best poems, Bronte’s open our eyes to different ways of seeing. From a glass of water to a photographed sunset, Bronte generously invites the reader to reflect on the vastness of the worlds we inhabit. These are poems of great tenderness and quiet gratitude – a glimmering and confident collection from an exciting new poet. The poems in \u003cem\u003eNighttime Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e will stay with you. 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Their work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Lois Roth Foundation, the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, Sundress Academy for the Arts, RM Gallery and Projectspace, and play_station Artist-run Space. \u003cem\u003eNighttime Gardener \u003c\/em\u003eis their first book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBronte Heron, \u003cem\u003eNighttime Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 2026. 148mm x 210mm. 64pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-89-5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921.png?v=1701428706\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388318068893,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Heron_Cover_lowresborder.jpg?v=1781734531"},{"product_id":"laurie-duggan-the-new-weather","title":"Laurie Duggan, The New Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘The small poems slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines.’ Fiona Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Weather \u003c\/em\u003eis a journal written over the last few years, following whatever those seasons have become, taking time out here and there to look at art, read other poets and listen to music. These innocent activities take place in a world where climate and the body (or bodies) politic have become forces impossible to anticipate, in which any notion of the ‘normal’ has been left well behind. Yet it is still a world where the pleasures of the imagination and the craziness of everyday experience survive. These are strange days indeed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘I think of how Pound defined the image as \"that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'; and, still being thoroughly sane back in 1913, he went on to say: “the natural object is always the adequate symbol”. Such an imagist doctrine has always been at the heart of Laurie Duggan’s sharp-eyed work.’ Chris Wallace-Crabbe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Hilariously and pointedly, he defines poems as “momentary lapses of inattention”. Delivering a specifically antipodean nostalgia, Duggan’s work may well compel us to consider which kinds of poetry can come from places where histories have been silenced, murderously broken, and forcibly overlaid with the very language from which one may hope to shape poetry.’ Dan Disney\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurie Duggan (b.1949) was involved in the poetry worlds of Melbourne and Sydney through the 1970s and 80s, publishing several books of poems including \u003cem\u003eThe Ash Range\u003c\/em\u003e (Picador 1987; Shearsman, UK, 2005), \u003cem\u003eThe Epigrams of Martial\u003c\/em\u003e (Scripsi 1989; Pressed Wafer, USA, 2010) and a critical work \u003cem\u003eGhost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (UQP 2001). He has taught media studies, art history, and cultural studies at various institutions. In 2006 he moved to the UK and lived in Faversham, Kent until 2018. He has published some twenty books of poems. 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His most recent books are Homer Street (Giramondo, Sydney, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award, and \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems 1971-2017 \u003c\/em\u003e(Shearsman, UK, 2018), which received a special commendation in the UK Poetry Book Society Awards that same year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurie Duggan, \u003cem\u003eThe New Weather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 2026. 148mm x 210mm. 128pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-90-1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921.png?v=1701428706\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388333830301,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Duggan_Cover_lowresborder.jpg?v=1781734505"},{"product_id":"ella-skilbeck-porter-crescentcrescent","title":"Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Crescentcrescent","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Across these poems Skilbeck-Porter drops all the way into the glinting surface of domestic life as if it were a portal. 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Her debut collection of poetry \u003cem\u003eThese are Different Waters \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2023) was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award and the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award. 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The poems play with constraint, repetition, addition, subtraction and citation, using a baroque mix of concretes, images and traditional lyric set forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, cinqain) as supercharged structural and design elements. Written during and after a diagnosis of lymphoma (narrated in ‘Bloodwork’), contemporaneous with COVID, Throes stages an intimate poetic working-through of matters of life and death, treatment and cure, attachment and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Kate Lilley is one of Australia’s leading contemporary poets. Her poetry is distinctive and astute. In this new work, she begins by employing minimalism to distil the experience of serious illness into a poetry of awareness and feeling while eschewing sentimentality. She has a singular ability to experiment with language and form.’ PAM BROWN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Lilley is a queer poet-scholar. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt, 2002) won the Grace Leven Prize and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her second, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP, 2012), was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. Her third, \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond, 2018), won the Victorian Premier's Prize. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eDorothy Hewett Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP), \u003cem\u003eMargaret Cavendish The Blazing World and other writings \u003c\/em\u003e(Penguin Classics) and \u003cem\u003eBest of Australian Poems 2024\u003c\/em\u003e (with Shastra Deo). 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