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Man-handled, Melinda Smith's seventh poetry collection, includes the found-text chapbook Listen, bitch plus new work from the last three years. Its central concern is gendered violence, both verbal and physical. These poems also extend their gaze to violences perpetrated in the names of colonialism, nationalism and capitalism. It has been called her angriest book yet. Despite this, there are also poems celebrating moments of connection and wonder.

With a hovering intelligence and a laudable lack of ego, the beautifully controlled poems of 'Some Sketchy Notes on Matter' investigate the world with an ecstatic's eye.

In turns unsettling and funny, Oliver Driscoll's debut collection is a testament to the mundane resonances of contemporary life and language. Driscoll's wry eye captures the subtle whimsy of the everyday, while exploring the capacity of its language to disturb the field of human meaning.

...nothing has changed then since high school, since Sydney in the 1980s with its garage bands and women’s marches and university bars and hungover Sunday recovery meals at the Malaya when it was still by Central Station, before we all became solid.From the Afterword:Gladland is a poetic tale of what heartbreak can and can’t do to a modern woman. Set to a 1970s psychosonic soundtrack, and staged in various cities from Detroit to Rome and Perth, these poems are glamrock operettas of everyday life, well-versed in its romantic absurdities and glories.

The poems in (Un)belonging explore physical and psychological spaces, examining the consequences of a life lived on three continents, defined by separation from homelands and loved ones, shaped by departure and return, and the evolution and multiplication of identity. Throughout the collection, the setting continually moves from Australia to Ireland to the United States, making stops in England, Iceland, Greece, Italy, New Zealand and Slovakia. O’Reilly’s poetry engages with a range of concerns and obsessions, including identity, belonging, expatriation, immigration, exile, ancestry, landscape, alienation, homesickness, suburbia, fatherhood, nostalgia, death and grief … finding beauty, contentment and joy amidst an elusive quest for home.

A story time for the Anthropocene.Zoe Anderson’s first poetry collection uses elements of fairytale and mythology to reflect on landscape, love and ecological uncertainty. Accompanied by darkly heartfelt illustrations by Helani Laisk and playful typography by Caren Florance, this is a collection full of hope, imagination and truth.

Keijiro Suga’s Transit Blues  ponders wide horizons including man’s relationship with and impact on nature, with the passing of time, and what it is as humans to live in the presence of inevitable decline and death. A deeply thoughtful and percipient voice engages the reader, surreal and dreamlike imagery offering fresh and lucent perspectives. Essentially elegiac, seeking unity, clarity and connection Keijiro Suga’s poetry brings together refined philosophical thought and the wisdom of the heart. The dignified, ever sustaining and watchful presence of nature resonates throughout this elegantly paced and fine collection.

In a series of textured prose currents, UNINTERRUPTED TIME assays confluent moments of familial and intimate relations, tracing the mortal body's insistent and at times devastating transitions.

Sing to Me is a collection of poems prompted by classical Greek narratives in such sources as Homer, Hesiod and Ovid. Around Grecian orchards … in Trojan battlefields … washed up with Aphrodite … paeans reveal indictments and human concerns surface.

Beginning with a small rebellion, She Reconsiders Life on the Run, fearlessly and without sentimentality, charts a course through sexuality, loss and grief - via the science lab, the life of Virginia Woolf, and more - eventually arriving at love.

On 21 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the moon, uttering those famous words: 'THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.' To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we asked 50 poets to collaborate on this poetry anthology reflecting upon the achievement of Apollo 11 and our constantly evolving notions of 'space'. CONTRIBUTORS: Cassandra Atherton, Christian Bök, Robyn Bolam, Lisa Brockwell, Owen Bullock, Maggie Butt,Anne Caldwell, Vahni Capildeo, Anne Casey, Eileen Chong, Paul Cliff, Katharine Coles, Oliver Comins,Tricia Dearborn, Benjamin Dodds, Martin Dolan, Ross Donlon, Maura Dooley, Moira Egan, Niloofar Fanaiyan, D.W. Fenza, John Foulcher, Lisa Gorton, Samia Goudie, Philip Gross, Oz Hardwick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Dominique Hecq,Matt Hetherington, Paul Hetherington, Andy Jackson, Jill Jones, Bella Li, Ian McMillan, Paul Mills, Helen Mort, Paul Munden, Nessa O'Mahony, Geoff Page, Alvin Pang, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Mario Petrucci, Lucy Sheerman, Alex Skovron, Melinda Smith, Shane Strange, Keijiro Suga, James Sutherland-Smith, Jen Webb, River Wolton.

From the afterword:'All of us are wrapped in our stories-in the prosaic and exquisite, in ordinary moments and complex relationships, in our history and our present lives. We are clothed in hope and loss, in happiness and sorrow, in anger and fear, in love and yearning. We all wear the common garment of humanity.'

In this, his fifth full-sized collection, Paul Cliff evokes thecity of Canberra and surrounding region, where he has lived for the past 20 years. The poems work via characteristically wide-ranging moods and voice registers, from lyrical and elegiac to narrative and comic. They also deploy a variety of forms, from sonnets and odes to fables and epigrams, underlain by seductive rhythms and arresting metaphor. The capital’s festivals, institutions and monuments, everyday street life, suburbs, and lakescape are investigated, while the more distant terrains of Weereewa (Lake George), Namadgi, the Monaro, the Snowy Mountains, and the South Coast of New South Wales are also evoked in engaging and often striking terms.

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 1990s, he is in aconversational mood. Here, he reflects on both his life and the formation and signficance of his key concepts and perspectives. His statements are often direct and straight forward, and yet lose nothing in attesting againto the striking originality of his philosophy and method. Such elements of his work are then further elucidated in extensive annotations to the transcripts, which encourage the reader to follow up and explore some more.

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 bordered by the Mataura stream-which means 'red face'. We call the place 'Land of the shining stream' or 'River's edge'.

Oz Hardwick’s collection of prose poems Learning to have lost  the passing of time, memory, old age, illness, death and how these resonate and move within and around each other . True to form, Hardwick achieves a sense of a musical refrain and rhythm underpinning and connecting this absorbing collection. While the subject matter is weighty and the pain from the litany of loss candidly expressed, a resolute humour asserts itself throughout that is sometimes sinister, sometimes surreal, often surprising and enormously engaging.

Sandra Renew's new poems interrogate the choices made in living and performing gender, sexuality and desire—of struggling to be queer in an Australia of Holden utes and rotting mangoes, XXXX stubbies and Bundy rum, boudoir drawers and country roads, toad princes and wanting to be Wesley Hall. It is a book of not wanting to conform,  charting the myriad pressures society places on conformity as a mode of survival. It is a brave, and sometimes funny book, filled with wry and deeply felt images and observations.

The emerging writers whose stories grace this collection engage in the play of symbolic action and detail, capturing sadness and imperfection through an apprehended fictional world-an abstracted reality. The stories resonate because they are intensely focused upon very particular forms of enquiry: Why do the characters see what they see? How do they know what they know? Perhaps it is this-the focus upon a very particular form of sensory apprehension-that lies at the heart of short stories that resonate beyond the final lines of text.The stories in ACE Anthology. Arresting, Contemporary stories by Emerging writers are authentic, the voices diverse and multilayered, translating longing, deprivation, and the raw senses of lived experience, into an urgency of ideas.Featuring:Supartra Walker, Joshua Kemp, Andrew Drummond, Alison Kelly, Sue Brennan, Ivana Rnjak, Sophie MacNeill, Ruth Armstrong, Kerrie Knox, Lisa Smithies.

‘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 uncontrolled... though it is a deceptive calm, nudged just beneath the surface by the force of the unsaid.— Philip Gross