Puncher & Wattmann

Alchemy of the Sun is a book about journeys. Sent to "open up the country", ignorant of Aboriginal strategies for coping with the terrain and climate, many of the desert explorers failed, some dying...

All That Remains explores our frailty in various forms - physical, emotional, spiritual - as we march onwards to the drumbeat of time. Some poems are reflections on quiet yet devastating moments of...

Written amid the COVID lockdowns of 2020, Holocene Pointbreaks embraces the geographical restriction during that period to create a triptych of local meanderings; an archipelago of poetic islands...

An uncompromising avant-gardist when young, Chester wrote brilliant poetry and strongly influenced younger friends he mentored. The names of some of them - Robert Hughes and Clive James - are...

When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward? In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to? The poems,...

Diane Fahey builds on an already rich body of poetry about birds with this fresh tribute to their exquisite intelligence, grace and splendour as they exist in the wild, and in our immediate sensory...

A director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grapples with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but mercurial lead star, Kit. Meanwhile, a young...

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag ... Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it ... The mother must be medicated ... I'm in...

Tim Thorne (25 March 1944 - 16 September 2021) was a leading contemporary Australian poet. Author of sixteen collections of poetry, founder of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and Cornford Press, Tim...