Recent Work Press

(Un)belongingAuthor: Nathanael O'ReillyPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: May 14, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648685330ISBN-13: 9780648685333

The sweetest gear. Hex. Virtues. Octopus.This is poetry by the numbers.Count it in: 5 6 7 8.Four poets, four numbers, ten poems each.Somehow, it all adds up.Author: Monica Carroll, Jen Crawford, Owen...

Paul Hetherington's long prose poem Ikaros crafts from the myth of the same name, a unique inspiration and imagination spanning multiple layers of time and consciousness, incorporating memory and...

Traversing physics and spirituality, philosophy and matter, Jackson's new collection asks profound questions about our place within a world of being. With deft silences and fine observations, these...

From the afterword: 'All of us are wrapped in our stories--in the prosaic and exquisite, in ordinary moments and complex relationships, in our history and our present lives. We are clothed in hope...

Miranda Lello's debut collection of poetry is a deeply felt and often playful reflection on the liminal moments of contemporary life. Lello's keen eye searches out the possibilities of new worlds as...

Author: Julia PrendergastPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 130 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645008907ISBN-13: 9780645008906

The contributions to ACE III are diverse in form and theme. As a composite picture the collection represents an expansive vision for short-form writing. We include work by authors from diverse...

Sandra Renew's new poems interrogate the choices made in living and performing gender, sexuality and desire. It is a book of not wanting to conform, charting the myriad pressures society places on...

The dictionary defines consumption as both the 'use of a resource' and 'a wasting disease'. This collection explores the different acts of self consumption a person can go through-sacrifice and...

Airplane Baby Banana BlanketAuthor: Benjamin DoddsPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 064883431XISBN-13:...

All Suspicions Have Been ConfirmedAuthor: Shane StrangePublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 52 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Whether in the Venetian footsteps of Vivaldi, at the birth of the Owen and Sassoon violins or the score of a Sam Peckinpah film, these poems present a wealth of musical scenarios, all interconnected...

In Animals with Human Voices you will find worms that dream of god, jellyfish weary of immortality, a powerless Superman, the pleading of a sewer cleaner, a lightning conductor tired of lightning and...

being one too law-abiding to smash windows being free with spray can and ready-made slogan politics there is a line- my body is on the line at risk and on file It's the 1970s and 1980s, and Sandra...

Beginning in Sight is Theodore Ell's first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and...

In 1778, Dorothy Wordsworth's mother died, and the six-year-old Dorothy was sent to live with extended family. She never returned to the family home, and it was not until adolescence that Dorothy...

Moya Pacey's Black Tulips is filled with subtly observed poems pushed into the service of a dark, and darkly humorous, sensibility.Author: Moya PaceyPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep...

These prose poems - I would like to call them 'moments of poetry' - recall journeys and intimacies, spaces of habitation, daily practices of denial, rescue, affection or assertion. They reflect on...

C19Author: Cassandra Atherton, Paul Munden, Jen WebbPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645009040ISBN-13:...

Throughout his forties and fifties Phillip found himself on a sticky wicket: the grief for his baby son and younger brothers, suicide attempts, self-harming, the premature termination of his career,...

In this, his fifth full-sized collection, Paul Cliff evokes thecity of Canberra and surrounding region, where he has lived for the past 20 years. The poems work via characteristically wide-ranging...

Cavorting with Time is a series of poems about female ageing and mortality. Jacqui Malins shares them here as a work in progress, a script that will develop and mature over time, gathering notes and...

Cities are as complex and unknowable as they are familiar and unsurprising.We can feel as if we know a city intimately, or merely indicate its mysteries to our fleeting perceptions.Or its mysteries...

You lead me through strange geographies. You say, up here the tide cannot drown our sandwiches. Es Foong's debut collection explores the strange geographies of belonging: to family, gender, culture...

Set in the heart of Australia, Penny Drysdale's debut collection breaks open the prison of self to lay bare the many contradictions in contemporary Australian relationships. Love, injustice and...

For over a decade, international poets Alvin Pang (Singapore) and George Szirtes (UK) have met time and again-as friends and fellow wordsmiths on page and stage-until the Covid-19 pandemic struck...

2021 is the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, author of the long narrative poetic trilogy, The Divine Comedy. In a time of global pandemic, Dante's exploration of the relationship...

DoggerlandAuthor: Moya PaceyPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648834395ISBN-13: 9780648834397

In Dublin Wandering, Nathanael O'Reilly rearranges, remixes and recombines words and phrases from James Joyce's Ulysses into seventeen poems, each named for the corresponding episodes in Joyce's...