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An unexpected chronicle of heart failure. Prose. Memoir. Essay. Other. This book is a thickness. A lure. Its pages an attempt to reach a body at the moment of invasion. Reduction. Accrual. Heart failure is a compression that folds in many durations. Perhaps for this reason and for the layering of...

“What a riveting, energising read. Kenny’s meticulous research and extensive interviews with a who’s who of Australian cultural life from the 1960s and ’70s recreates so vividly the heady, hopeful, and often fraught times of Melbourne’s Pram Factory and the APG. Front row, backstage, on stage – w...

This groundbreaking collection documents the state of mental health in Australia, foregrounding a wide range of voices with lived experience defining themselves beyond a diagnosis. Admissions showcases more than one hundred works: poems, essays, lyrics, fiction and illustrations from some of our ...

The long-awaited second collection from the winner of the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.  In his stunning collection of new poetry, Stuart Barnes reimagines the poetic form and fearlessly explores topics of illness, death, rape, remembrance, ecology and love. Like to the Lark...

Tom, our narrator, is a stranger in an intellectual community whose members experience the world by wondering how things are made and how they might be made differently. Instead of characters undergoing dramatic changes, Tom’s life in this world is defined by the changing plans for these things: ...

Hecate is the first adaptation of a complete Shakespeare play in one Aboriginal language of Australia. Performed entirely in Noongar language, this retelling of a well-known yarn about a Scottish king is a landmark work of both theatre and language restoration.  Impacted by colonialism and suppr...

A collection of new work by award-winning poet Ann Shenfield. Delving into family trauma in a post-Holocaust context and informed by psychoanalysis, these poems explore identity and the frailty of the human and physical world.  A Treatment presents a poetic reflection of family trauma in a post-...

Children of Tomorrow is an episodic saga, a sweeping history of family and friendship, spanning multiple generations and geographies across the twenty-first century. This web of characters struggle, both individually and collectively, through a time of unprecedented, escalating change.  Beginnin...

This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure.  Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay for...

This compelling memoir of Susan Varga’s life across seven decades circles between Australia and Europe, activism and seclusion, everyday life and the writing life. She was born into war-torn Budapest, her family escaping loss and trauma to make a new life in Sydney. But Susan makes another escape...