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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...

Life with Bird s is about suburbs, families, secrets, silence and birds. It’s also about war. Not a story of heroism or healing trauma; more the trying to fill in gaps in a family story and re-animate a father never really known. Bronwyn Rennex uses whatever material she could find: old photograp...

Words Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature & Language of Place gathers Gregory Day’s beautiful and moving essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in Australia into one place.  Words Are Eagles sings with the heightened sense of place a...

Shortlisted 2023: Prime Minister's Literary Awards; WA Premier's Book Awards 2023 (Book of the Year) & Victorian Premier's Awards 2022 (Poetry)   In this volume, Scott-Patrick Mitchell propels us into the seething mess of the methamphetamine crisis in Australia today. These poems roil and scratc...

To fall is to be human. We fall in love, fall asleep, and fall from grace. And in this epoch that we have called the Anthropocene, we are witnessing nothing less than the fall of nature. This extraordinary collection, the fifth by the prize-winning poet David McCooey, covers the full tragicomic s...

Raymond causes a stir in the country town of Glaston when he buys Glastonbridge, a house of vast, neo-Gothic fantasy abandoned for decades. It’s an ambitious project, and all previous renovators have come to grief. Out of the woodwork real estate agents, a jealous sister, the heritage council, pr...