Bestsellers

The scorching, much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for DropbearThe Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world....

An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve...

A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose...

Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last...

Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus...

A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh. With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the...

we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man...

As diaspora தமிழ்s growing up in new home countries, with a backdrop of genocide, it can be challenging and confusing to grapple with these personal and historical tapestries. Priyanka’s poetry...

The second poignant, powerful and passionate novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits...

WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection)WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary AwardSHORTLISTED - 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED - 2019...

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people...

When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I am Black because I come from the earth's insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.'Impassioned and profound, the...

Translated by Ruth Padel Diaries 'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland...

A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket. We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of...

Maori mythology and endless summers- the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic voiceI am made in the image of my mother ...I am made in the image of...

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good part...

A Fraction of Momentary Love takes the reader on a poignant journey of love's allure, anguish, anticipation, and everything in between. Through vivid poetic storytelling inspired by pop culture romance...

A magical poetic coming-of-age story, drawing on feminine power, Indian mythology and healing from bestselling poet, writer and artist Nikita Gill. Picked as as one of STYLIST'S *BEST AUTUMN READS...

Guwayu, For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years, and is a radical literary intervention for its breadth...

Illustrated by Roux To Fight Fire with Sun is a collection of poetry that dives into the experiences of love and loss. From conception, we have known love (or the...

my heart was askingat every turn, andas sure as i breathed: would i want this for my daughter, and if not,  why on earth         should it be good enough...

Flinch & Air is a unique exploration of Asian female identity. Reflecting on culture, politics, language and society in and beyond Hong Kong, this is a book of remembrance, courage,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian...

This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family....

‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG ‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY ‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry.Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was a Goenpul woman...

The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most...

*Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land...

I’m not here to sugar-coat grief. I’m here to be transformed by it. This powerfully vulnerable book invites us to grieve. Having lost her mother at the age of nine,...

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo - poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed - that bears witness to the genocide in GazaThe Nightmare Sequence is a searing response...

When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed...

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. The poems in Yanyi’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our...

TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism,...

A transformative collection of poetry that is an anthem of desire against erasure.Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book. It demands that every body carried in its...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the...

A timely and important collection of poems by the award-winning author of The White Girl and Blood. In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation...

Aflame begins in Soviet Moscow and ends with a Tibetan Buddhist monk's self-immolation; residing between them - improvisations after celebrated Japanese Haikus. Written in an intricate and polyphonic structure, Subhash...

Roadkill for Beginners is Stephanie Chan’s first collection of poetry. It’s part scrapbook of love letters to places, part field guide to the people in them. It’s a messy celebration of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break...

'The undisputed masterpiece of negritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement...

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize “Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer...

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have knownSimmering with protest...

Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to...

A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political.This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship,...

The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong — her most personal and accomplished work yet. Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories — personal, familial and cultural —...

Fiercely told, this is a powerful coming-of-age story told in verse, from one of the UK's leading poets, Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, & Kacen...

'I write scenes from life that the eye cannot see, as if I was trying to paint air or spirit.'Written from the perspective of an Iraqi soldier this is a...

*Highly Commended — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal...