Recent Work Press

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...

Story Ground: The anthologyAuthor: Paul Collis, Jen CrawfordPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Some say that when a cat adopts that lock-eyed vacuum stare into the impossible space behind you, it can see the ghosts that crawl along ceilings and walls ... The poems in this collection are an...

Strokes of LightAuthor: Lucy AlexanderPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648834301ISBN-13: 9780648834304

These haiku were written over three summers, camping on our piece of land near Waihi in Aotearoa New Zealand, and, for contrast, one winter sojourn there in our newly-built gypsy wagon. The land is...

Largely set between a main road and a watercourse in a residential-industrial suburb in Melbourne's west, Taking Apart the Bird Trap is altogether haunting, unsettling and transcendent. Set in motion...

On the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island there is a town called Timaru. The name derives from the Maori phrase te-tihi-o-maru meaning 'a place of shelter'. It's place of shipwrecks and cabbage...

The title poem of this collection chronicles the eighteenth-century trial of Captain John Bolton for the murder of his apprentice girl, Elizabeth Rainbow, in a small village in the north of England...

This collection traces the period from 2019, and the catastrophe fires in Australia, through the COVID years and beyond, feeling its way into how we live in the world, and how we might reflect on the...

In the face of fire, flood, plague, environmental catastrophe and political chaos the challenge is that poetry, in Auden's words, 'show an affirming flame'. The poems in The Dancing Man are an...

The Gospel of Unmade Creation, the debut collection by Thabani Tshuma, is about reshaping. It is an examination of the ways we are taken apart and put back together and what exists in that space...

The Incompleteness BookAuthor: Julia Prendergast, Jen Webb, Shane StrangePublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 174 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Incompleteness Book 2Author: Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall, Jen WebbPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Matt Hetherington's new collection highlights his very unique way of breaking the world at large into subtle architectures of mystery and wonder. Hetherington is fascinated by finding the universal...

Each reading of your palm a different road verging from soil and forking into possibilities in a wild and foreign ocean no vaster than the line it makes with the sky In The Many Uses of Mint Ravi...

the moment, taken is Jennifer Compton's eleventh book of poetry. At this late stage she has yielded to the absolute lure of eidectic memory. That is - 'relating to or denoting images having unusual...

In The Uncommon Feast, Eileen Chong gives us a collection of poetry, essays and recipes that remark on how food has shaped her life, her way of understanding her world, and the world of connections...

Janette Pieloor's Then and Now embraces both the earliest memories of childhood and the absences of old age. The poetry is detailed, elegant and moving, as it represents all the overlapping stages of...

This new volume from Penelope Layland absorbingly quizzes memory, while questioning our apprehension of time and the importance of deep human connections. These poems explore mourning and loss in a...

This Cathedral GriefAuthor: Adrian CaesarPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648936716ISBN-13: 9780648936718

With stunning formal range and architectural design, Anders Villani's second collection explores how violence engenders selfhood by calling it into radical question. What does it mean to suffer in a...

Author: Dominique HecqPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648936732ISBN-13: 9780648936732

Tract is the third anthology of prose poems from the Prose Poetry Project, a group of over twenty poets from across Australia, Singapore, and the UK who collaborate on writing in this fl uid form...

This first book of poetry by Niloofar Fanaiyan is about transit as both a physical and conceptual suspension of time and space. It touches on the intersections of people, place, culture and history...

Nigel Kennedy is one of the world's foremost violinists. His achievements have been met with great acclaim, not least his ability, both as performer and composer, to move across and blend an...

Under the Skin of the WorldAuthor: Zoe AndersonPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648685373ISBN-13:...

Wardrobe of Selves examines what differentiates our private self from our public self--how often or rarely each of us is candid, driven to reveal our oldest secrets and scars; or calculating, moving...

Stephen Gilfedder's Way Stations features selected poems from the past 40 and more years. The chronology leads us from the contemporary to his initial fully realised work. Throughout, people - in...

Weathered explores the era in which we find ourselves - the Anthropocene - and how we are transforming the world on a cataclysmic scale. The climate emergency is altering our weather, landscapes and...

White Clouds Blue RainAuthor: Paul Munden|Nessa O'MahonyPublisher: Recent Work PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...