Listed here are recently published or forthcoming poetry collections, verse novels and flash fiction. We do not review Cordite Books titles or books by our contributing editors.
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- Kent MacCarter. 40 Poets. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Kim Cheng Boey. The Singer and Other Poems. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2022
- Joan Fleming. Song of Less. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2022
- Teena McCarthy. Bush Mary. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Sumudu Samarawickrama. Plunge the Mirkwood. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Lucy Van. The Open. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Ella O’Keefe. Slowlier. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Alex Selenitsch. Look! Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Catherine Vidler. Wings Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2021
- Em König. Breathing Plural. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2020
- Astrid Lorange. Labour and Other Poems. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2020
- Prithvi Varatharajan. Entries. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2020
- John Mukky Burke. Late Murrumbidgee Poems. Melbourne: Cordite Books, 2020
- Elfie Shiosaki. Homecoming. Broome: Magabala Books, 2020
- John Hawke. Whirlwind Duststorm. Melbourne: Grand Parade Poets, 2021
- Angela Gardner. The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette. London: Shearsman Books, 2021
- Grant Caldwell. Blue Balloon. Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 2020
- Angela Costi. An Embroidery of Old Maps and New. Geelong: Spinifex Press, 2021
- Susan Hawthorne. The Sacking of the Muses. Geelong: Spinifex Press, 2021
- Erik Jensen. I Said the Sea Was Folded. Melbourne: Black Inc. Books, 2021
Kristen Lang. Earth Dwellers. Sydney: Giramondo, 2021- Song Lin. The Gleaner’s Song. Sydney: Giramondo, 2021
- Toby Fitch. Sydney Spleen. Sydney: Giramondo, 2021
- Mark Anthony Cayanan. Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous. Sydney: Giramondo, 2021
Emily Sun. Vociferate | 詠. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2021- Hassan Al Nawwab . Poems that do not sleep. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2021
- Louise Crisp. Glide. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2021
- Sandra Renew. It’s the Sugar, Sugar. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Ross Donlon. For the Record. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- James Lucas. Rare Bird. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Paul Collis. Nightmares Run Like Mercury. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Jerzy Beaumont. Errant Night. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Oliver Driscoll. Apartment Diary. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Rico Craig. Our Tongues are Songs. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Jacqui Malins. F-words. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Penny Drysdale. I Am Glass. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Jennifer Compton. the moment, taken. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Anne Elvey. Obligations of Voice. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Kimberly Williams. Sometimes a Woman. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Stephen Gilfedder. Way Stations. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Damen O’Brien. Animals with Human Voices. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Phillip Hall. Cactus. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Anne Casey. Portrait of a Women Walking Home. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Heather Taylor-Johnson. Rhymes with Hyenas. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Belinda Rule. Hyperbole. Canberra: Recent Work Press, 2021
- Tim Slade. The Walnut Tree. Hobart: Bright South, 2021
- Ross Donlon. The Bread Horse. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Irina Frolova. Far and Wild. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Chris Mansell. Foxline. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Harold Legaspi. Letters in Language. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Kate Rees. Come the Bones. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Steve Armstrong. What’s Left. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Robert Edmonds. Gravity Doesn’t Work. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Myron Lysenko. A Ghost Gum Leans Over. Macau: Flying Island, 2021
- Anne Vickery. A Bee’s Guide to Bothering. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- Eleanor Jackson. Gravidity and Parity. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- L K Holt. Capacity. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- Shinkawa Kazue. Selected Poems. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- Bella Li. Theory of Colours. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- John Kinsella. Supervivid Depastoralism. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- Tamryn Bennet. icaros. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2021
- Tony Birch. Whisper Songs. Brisbane: UQP, 2021
- Jazz Money. The Space Between the Paperbark. Brisbane: UQP, 2021
- Evelyn Araluen. Dropbear. Brisbane: UQP, 2021
- Maria Takolander. Trigger Warnings. Brisbane: UQP, 2021
- Eileen Chong. A Thousand Crimson Blooms. Brisbane: UQP, 2021
- Natalie Briggs. Who Loves At All. Melbourne: Rabbit Poets, 2020
- Elena Gomez. Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Juan Garrido Salgado. Hope Blossoming in Their Ink. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Toby Davidson. Four Oceans. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Rebecca Edwards. Plague Animals. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Ed Wright. Baked Gods. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Kerrie Shying. Know Your Country. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Chris Brown. Hotel Universo. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Ivy Ireland. The Owl Inside. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
Shari Kocher. Foxstruck and Other Collisions. Newcastle: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020- Elfie Shiosaki and Linda Martin, eds. maar bidi: next generation black writing. Broome: Magabala Books, 2020
- Michael J Leach. Chronicity. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
- David Munro. Wearing My Father’s Hat. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
- Ouyang Yu. Living After Death. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
Linda Adair. The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020- Jeltje Fanoy. My Mother and the Cat. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
- Dominique Hecq. Kaosmos. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
Kevin Brophy. In this Part of the World. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020- Michael J Leach. Chronicity. Melbourne: Melbourne Poet’s Union, 2020
- Cath Kenneally. The Southern Oscillation Index. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020
- Brendan Ryan. Walk Like a Cow. Hobart: Walleah Press, 2020
- Andrew Burke. New and Selected. Hobart: Walleah Press, 2020
- Rose Hunter. Anchorage. London: Haverthorn, 2020
- Luke Best. Cadaver Dogs. Brisbane: UQP, 2020
- Caitlin Maling. Fish Work. Perth: UWAP, 2021
- Tony Page. Anh and Lucien. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Noëlle Janaczewska. Scratchland. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Ross Jackson. Time alone on a quiet path. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Josephine Clarke. Recipe for Risotto. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Bron Bateman. Of Memory and Furniture. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2020
- Felicity Plunkett. A Kinder Sea. Brisbane: UQP, 2020
- Jaya Savige. Change Machine. Brisbane: UQP, 2020
S K Kelen. A Happening in Hades. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020Gabrielle Everall. Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys. Adelaide: Buon-Cattivi, 2020- Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, eds. Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2020
- Adrienne Eberhard. Chasing Marie Antoinette all Over Paris. Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 2020
- Stephen Edgar. The Strangest Place. Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 2020
- Paul Hetherington & Cassandra Atherton, eds. Prose Poetry, an introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020
- Martin Johnston. Selected Poems. Sydney: Ligature, 2020
- John Bartlett. Awake at 3AM. Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, 2020
- Ken Bolton. Salute. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Todd Turner. Thorn. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Chris Mansell. 101 Quads. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Yang Xie. Dangling. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Stephen Oliver. The Song Of Globule / 80 Sonnets. Canberra: Greywacke, 2020
- Caroline Reid. SIARAD. Sydney: ES Press, 2020
- Michael Sharkey. The Foliage in the Underworld. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- John A Scott. Shorter Lives. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
Laurie Duggan. Homer Street. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020- Steve Brock. Live at Mr Jake’s. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020
- Helen Parsons. The Feeling of Bigness. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020
- Annette Marner. Women With Their Faces On Fire. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020
- Miriel Lenore. A Wild Kind of Tune. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020
- Bron Bateman. Of Memory and Furniture. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2020
- Ali Alizadeh. Towards the End. Sydney: Giramondo, 2020
- Michael Farrell. Family Trees. Sydney: Giramondo, 2020
- Jenny Blackford. The Alpaca Cantos. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry, 2020
- John Bartlett. Songs of the Godforsaken. Port Adelaide, Ginninderra Press, 2020
- Angela Gardner. Notes on Matter. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Oliver Driscoll. I Don’t Know How That Happened. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Susan Bradley Smith. Gladland. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Lucy Alexander. Strokes of Light. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Jill Jones. Wild Curious Air. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Nathanael O’Reilly. (Un)Belonging. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Shane Strange. All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Benjamin Dodds. Airplane, Baby, Banana, Blanket. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Moya Pacey. Doggerland. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Adrian Caesar. The Cathedral Grief. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Cassandra Atherton and Paul Heatherington. Forgotten Letters . Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- Jen Web and She Hawke. Flight Mode. Canberra: Recent Work Press 2020
- John Kinsella and Thurston Moore. The Weave. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- David Stavenger. Case Notes. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Nadia Rhook. Boots. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Jill Jones. A History of What I’ll Become. Perth: UWAP, 2020
- Martin Langford. Eardrum:Poems and Prose about Music. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Ella Jeffrey. Dead Bolt. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2020
- Vrasidis Karalis The Glebe Point Road Blues. Sydney: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2020
- Aidan Coleman. Mount Sumptuous. Adelaide: Wakefield Publishing, 2020
- Kate Llewellyn. Harbour. Adelaide: Wakefield Publishing, 2020
- Ali Whitelock. The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair. Adelaide: Wakefield Publishing, 2020
