The crags do not notice if I have come from stone or am becoming stone or am merely part of the weather.The Anthropocene what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth's history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness...

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to...

*Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize*No Documentis an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and...

Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous,...

When J.S. Harry died in 2015 she was acknowledged as one of the great female poets of her generation, alongside Fay Zwicky, Antigone Kefala, Jennifer Maiden and Judith Rodriguez.This commemorative volume gathers poems from all her collections, as well as...

*A 2021 CBCA Notable Book: Older Readers**Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Book of the year for Older Children**Shortlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2021: Best Designed Children's Fiction Book**Shortlisted for the 2021 New South Wales...

Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.Laurie Duggan's new collection begins with poems written during his last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others written on a visit to Australia in 2016 and...

*Winner of the Australian Book Design Award 2021: Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover*A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water, which in its mixing of genres - essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale - opened up new...

'One of the most original books of the year'  Natalia Barbelagua, Revista IntemperieIn a small city perchedbetween the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a dyingwoman relives her childhood and adolescence in vivid...

Winner ofthe prestigious 'Premio Novela Breve Juan March Cencillo'May 1814. On the island of Elba, the beekeeper Andrea Pasolini awaitsthe arrival of the defeated, exiled emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. Pasolini is a self-taughtdisciple of the...

Towards the End presents thecontemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversiblytowards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker'sdisillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic...

Carment is one of Australia's best-known plein air artists. It is his distinctive mark as a writer that he writes as he paints from life capturing the likeness of a particular place in time, remaining faithful to the moment when he sees...

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry*Heide is an epic poem about history,painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia -from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton...

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adas Award for New WritingLonglisted for the Stella Prize 2020Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: FictionThe House of Youssef is a...

IntimateAntipathiesis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the...

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry**Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry*The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers...

To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesiais a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regularbasis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yetthis was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry...

A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as shewrites her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheekrumination on the monotony and loneliness of the novelist's daily life, and theact...

Giramondopublishes in a single volume, for a new generation of poetry readers, adefinitive selection of the timeless work of revered Melbourne poet Emma Lew.The dark aura of Emma Lew's poetry has madeher a compelling and mysterious presence for...

John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant whohas lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop whilemaintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When hebecomes infatuated with a...

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fictionLonglisted for the 2019 Stella PrizeThe follow-up to Fiona Wright's essaycollection Small Acts of Disappearance winner of the Nita B. Kibble...

GeraldMurnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarmingpoems that traverse the rich span of his life.  I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. -...

Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's thirdcollection with Giramondo.Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in theaffinities between poetry and other media visual arts, music, andparticularly in this...

*Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.A new...

Tom Lee is one of Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists 2019One of the strangestand most appealing novels you will read this year!Tom Lee's first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationshipwith an older woman. She is both his...

Once aworking-class heartland, Newcastle is now acclaimed as one ofthe top 5 hipster cities in the world. In the sequence of sonnets which composeher homage to Newcastle, Glastonbury celebrates the city's oddities andcontradictions, remixing the material...

WINNER of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary AwardsShortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2019Judith Beveridge is one of Australia most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, a highly...

Lerena Dost is adominant and successful woman until she and her psychoanalyst Suano Botilecue crossan ethical boundary and are disgraced, after their sexual relationship is madeknown. Both lose everything.Then, a chance encounter with a mysteriouswoman...

Powerfulfirst collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poetIn Flood Damages Andrada explores themesassociated with immigration and inheritance, through the figure of a young AustralianFilipina woman, whose family has been irreparably...

Debutcollection by a young Western Sydney poet, focussed on the hijab, and  exploring the complexities of growing upMuslim in AustraliaMaryam Azam's poems take the mysteriesof the hijab as their object of scrutiny. Though shamed and angered by...

Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which...

New collection from award-winning poet John MateerIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateerdescribes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joo, as he travels across the globe,attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famousfellow...

Acclaimed poet Corey Wakeling's secondcollection continues his inquiry into language and the spatial architectures ofhistory and culture. Set among 20th century ruins, the poems arecast as if hallucinations: colonial-style houses are 'guarded by palm...

Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance, and they share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our...

MichaelFarrell is the most adventurous andexperimental of contemporary Australianpoets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highlyregarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language,...

Chatelaine is a collection ofpoems peopled by characters who, like a family portrait, resemble one anotherin foxed, latent ways. Their voices stalk outside of time and place, inhabitingthe genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric and ekphrasis, and...

After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power,...

Debut collection by ayoung poet whose simple, funny and deceptively nave poems engage with the virtualrealities of the internet.The Honeymoon Stage is a collection ofpoems written for friends on the internet over a five-year period. Thesefriends were...

"a deep meditation on fractured origins and the process of remaking" Eileen Chong"Brown's postcardssing crisp Guangzhou mornings and hints of dry Australian sunsets"Sam Wagan WatsonA hoarding Chinesegrandmother fills her home with objects, unable to...

"Wearne's epics and fragments are like the traces of aruined culture, in which everybody got to star in their own domestic drama orscrewball romance. Until you realise that it's happening, here and now: you arebeing waltzed around the living room of...

Through delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn illustrated maps, Mirror Sydney charts an alternative view of the harbour city, to show a place of suburban mysteries, hidden stories, and anachronistic sites. Vanessa Berry, one of Australia's most acute...

"An impressive and engaging collection...the poems are assured yetthey also bring out the often conflicted feelings that places can evoke:strangeness, beauty, loss, violence, distance, closeness, intimacy andindifference" - Judith...

**Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection****Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize****Shortlisted, Prime Minster's Literary Awards, Poetry...

"Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary MantelLetter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle...

Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. 'I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest,...

We think ofcontemporary Indian writing as sharing the same teeming quality as the countryitself. But the simplicity and clarity of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poems pointto another Indian literary tradition, one based on understatement andresonance,...

Hazel Smith's new poetry collectionengages in a direct way with contemporary political and social issues civilwar and the flight of populations, oppressive regimes and the disappearance ofdissidents, the unpredictable effects of climate change relating...

The poems in In the Photograph unfold in domestic and suburban settings. They capture the exact moment of writing: how, from it, possibilities branch out into observation, memory, word play, analogy, fantasy, other artworks and other art forms. Cinema,...