Recent Work Press

Even the memories of memory are fading. It has been decades since this all began.' In Jen Webb's hands, the prose poem is a fluid medium, alive with sharp glints and subtle eddies, and never...

In his first full-length poetry collection, Natural Philosophies, Michael J. Leach grasps for truth and solace by embracing interdisciplinary perspectives and alternative meanings. The poems in this...

These are poems of love and loss, they imagine a world where hawks fly from the arms of lovers and disappear into a dying world, where golden fish rise from rivers and tangle themselves in hair,...

NighAuthor: Penelope LaylandPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648936708ISBN-13: 9780648936701

From the author of the David Unaipon award winning novel Dancing Home.Paul Collis' first collection of poetry is a book of difficult truths and profound connections. It charts a life lived on the...

No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC NewscastAuthor: Paul Munden, Alvin Pang, Shane StrangePublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Apr 18, 2020Number of Pages: 174 pagesLanguage:...

Author: Sandra Renew, Moya PaceyPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645180807ISBN-13: 9780645180800

If we are to speak, what is it we must speak? If we are allowed to speak, what is it we must say? Who constitutes the 'we' that speaks? Anne Elvey's new collection frames such questions against the...

Utilising comprehensive research undertaken at the National Records of Scotland, On the Record takes as its starting point the death certificates of a number of Martin Dolan's direct ancestors. Each...

In Our Tongues Are Songs, Rico Craig pursues the intimate, the voices people use as they speak to their private fears. Craig brings his unique ear for lyricism, his eye for human need, to bear on the...

Via numerous portrait poems of real and fictitious people revealed in Our Ways On Earth Peter Bakowski returns our attention to the individual. Via clear, non-judgemental portraiture Our Ways On...

Andrew's sixth poetry collection, Outside of Here. Outsider Hear!, is mined from rich lived experience in Ghana, Japan, Europe and Australia, Moss draws upon his positionality as an...

This new prose poetry sequence from Paul Hetherington explores the power of memory and the hauntings of childhood. It takes the reader on a sensuous and richly imagistic journey into expansive ideas...

Beginning with a childhood in and around depressed Cornish mining, Pancakes for Neptune is a detonation of neoliberal waste. Bullock understands that conservatism - whether in public or private...

Nathan Shepherdson's new collection, parallel equators is a book in five sections, under the five vowels, and through the five apparatus of one hand. It attempts to return its messages to a sender...

The main obsession was, and remains, with that moment when we know beyond doubt that something significant has changed, but we are not yet sure exactly what it is. For me, that is the lyric moment...

Anita Patel's second collection of poetry takes us on a voyage into history, heritage, mythology and family. These poems scatter and drift through layers of time, across cultures and continents. They...

This short collection of translated poems by Australian poets features: Paul Hetherington; Melinda Smith; Ellen Van Neerven; Jen Crawford; Cassandra Atherton; Niloofar Fanaiyan and Shane Strange...

In this lyrical, often wry, sometimes heartbreaking and just occasionally horrifying selection of poems, internationally award-winning poet, Anne Casey invites you to step into her shoes, take a...

From the opening poem of Maggie Shapley's first collection Proof, we know we are in the company of a thoughtful, sometimes restless, poet. Here, in explorations of childhood and family, memory and...

Pulse is the second anthology of prose poems from the Prose Poetry Project, a group of over twenty poets from across Australia and the UK who collaborate on writing this most undecidable of forms...

In this, his sixth full-sized collection, Paul Cliff explores the themes of Faith, Grace, Hope Fragility, Responsibility, Devotion-Privilege, Relegation, Betrayal & Loss - in multifarious aspects and...

Intellectually ambitious and culturally engaged, these poems speak of Tarantino and Sartre, of Zola and Jackson Pollock, of Western Australia's firewatch trees and Dubbo's gibbons, of the...

Imagine if six famous protagonists transcended chronological and geographical barriers to come together through a poetry group in Adelaide. Rhymes with Hyenas is an inventive narrative of emails and...

In Owen Bullock's second haiku sequence with Recent Work Press, he explores the wisdom garnered from his period as a care worker for the elderly in New Zealand. These haiku display the riches of...

Jen Webb's new collection is a series of striking prose poems that explore the ways in which personal crises and memories might be re-examined through the elusive concept of the archive. ? Each of...

Sleeping Dogs - 9780648834366Author: MARTIN. DOLANPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648834360ISBN-13:...

The weight of our bodies, the heat of them; the thick waist of history; and the crush of possible futures, these poems reside on the lip of contemporary womanhood.Author: Charlotte GuestPublisher:...

Some Sketchy Notes on MatterAuthor: Angela GardnerPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648404242ISBN-13:...

Based on historical, biographical and geographic research, Sometimes a Woman explores the lives of 19th-century women-prostitutes and madams-who helped settle America's Wild West . Filled with voices...