Recent Work Press

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is known for the richness and sophistication of his extensive writings. In these selected dialogues, under taken with Michael Grenfell in the 1980s and...

'Lucy Alexander's poems, vibrant, smart and witty with awareness of the ways a woman's voice can be side-lined and side-stepped, attentive to the almost untouchable meniscus of grief, caught by ideas...

What would you do if you looked up and saw that the night sky was darker than usual? That the stars had disappeared, and nobody was doing anything about it? What do you do when a loved one tells you...

It is all too much! The past and future have coalesced into a spherical twister of succulents, stardust, money boxes and chatbots. You keep it together with outstretched arms, a child of this earth...

F-words' is less expletive, more reconnaissance flight. In this five-year exploratory survey of territory that might include poetry, Malins forays into fables, fauna and flora, family, feminism,...

Feldspar, the new collection of poetry from Brendan Ryan, is unflinching in its focus on rural landscapes, the treatment of farm animals and the humble lives of people often missing from poetry...

Five AgesAuthor: Cassandra Atherton, Oz Hardwick, Paul HetheringtonPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2021Number of Pages: 166 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In these prose poem sequences, five diff erent tastes are explored, not only with reference to food and drink, but also through their metaphorical use. There are innumerable ways of 'tasting' and...

Flight ModeAuthor: Jen Webb, She HawkePublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648936740ISBN-13: 9780648936749

Fugitive LettersAuthor: Cassandra Atherton, Paul HetheringtonPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In his teens, Ross Donlon had poems published in The Bulletin, Australia's iconic journal, and in 1965, the literary editor predicted 'an exciting future' for the young poet. Donlon's next poem was...

Paintings trawl time like nets, catching what stories they can, and ruins are the ground you walk.' These prose poems take the reader through a gallery of European art, notionally situated in Rome,...

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we asked 50 poets to collaborate on this poetry anthology ref ecting upon the achievement of Apollo 11 and our constantly evolving...

Erin Shiel's debut collection brings together insightful vignettes about the arc of maturity to womanhood, exploring kindness, grief and the neglected beauty of everyday life. The collection slips...

GladlandAuthor: Susan Bradley SmithPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648685349ISBN-13: 9780648685340

Author: Paul HetheringtonPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2021Number of Pages: 238 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645008966ISBN-13: 9780645008968

Hyperbole, Belinda Rule's debut full length collection, contains the poems from the 2019 Anne-Elder-commended chapbook, The Things the Mind Sees Happen, as well as a careful selection of previous...

I am the glassAuthor: Penny DrysdalePublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: May 01, 2021Number of Pages: 150 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645009024ISBN-13: 9780645009026

I Don't Know How That HappenedAuthor: Oliver DriscollPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648685365ISBN-13:...

I Saw the Best Memes of My GenerationAuthor: Dominic SymesPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2022Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

From the Afterword: Inlandia--named for my inland homes, the people who live there and the rich cultural life that springs from place and character to give me creative juice. For the most part, the...

Isolation is a state of pleasing discordance. Nothing must. Not needs. Not want. It is a state of below-belly desire--not groinal, nor lustful, but where the world smacks into the mind of its own...

These poems move freely in time from the 1950s to the present day, from the contemporary to memoir, from gender politics to bushfires and floods. They show you jeeps, trucks, girlfriends and...

KaleidoscopesAuthor: MATT. HETHERINGTONPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648834352ISBN-13: 9780648834359

A new collection of poetry from the author of Transit.Author: Niloofar FanaiyanPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2018Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

'This debut volume by Asha is crammed with rich and richly surprising poems, all of them characterised by sharp-edged observation, vivid images, and many a quirky turn of phrase. These poems take all...

The poems in this collection were written over the past few years in various locations: riverbanks; hospital corridors; writers retreats; oceans; in the leaf litter photographing fungi; by the fire...

Man-HandledAuthor: Melinda SmithPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648834336ISBN-13: 9780648834335

In this second collection from award-winning poet, K A Nelson, extends the themes in her 2018 debut collection, to write as desert flâneur or reminisce as the moon. In her concerns about the natural...

1962. Menzies was in power, Whitlam was deputy Opposition Leader, and the cold war was in full swing. Canberra was steadily transforming froma town in a paddoc to a city with a lake. This is a year...