Bestsellers

A book that will change the way you think about love, relationships, heartbreak, and self-empowerment. Breaking the rules, challenging perceptions, and exploring the secret desires we keep hidden from the...

Fatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its...

the bright sorrow is always ringing, always ringing, and fading into forgettingIn his second book, Jonathan Chan presents poems written through the years of the pandemic and eruptions of war...

Formally daring poems that ask a compelling question: if fate can never be changed, how can we embrace its weaving? The realm that belongs to Nebulous Vertigo is both visceral...

The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Tony Birch, Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a stunning collection of exhilarating poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties that have become...

In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time." Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd's debut collection of...

This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakama and kitsch and emerges dripping...

Lang’s evocative words of love, loss, and self-empowerment have inspired millions across the globe to seek their own voice through the healing power of poetry. A definite must-have collection for...

A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artist An all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon,...

A transnational anthology of feminist poetry Borderless presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets reflecting on feminism in its broadest sense....

*Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020* Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Green's mother, and is built around selected correspondence between Yagu and Daughter. It gently...

Says Van about her collection: ‘The old hill near where I grew up was outwardly ruined: its pines were dead, its vines gone to seed and its sheds, which once...

From the author of Magical NegroWinner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night — the book that launched the career of one...

Irreverent and courageous, Throat is a fierce cry that fights to be heard. This is van Neerven's most powerful work yet. not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here...

* Signed copies available. Leave a note in your order if you'd like one! An imaginative, high concept and distinctive new collection from the winner of the Shapcott Prize and...

How to Write While Colonised: 2022 A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats,...

A fiercely contemporary collection which renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history, from the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek...

who are youwhen you're aloneStarry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of graphic poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world.a heavy heart is hard to carryhold onWhen words...

Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice — from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights — and bears witness...

Love. It is a beautiful mess of complex, confusing and interconnecting emotions. For some, it means romance, for others, family. There are those who understand love as empowerment, resistance and...

New collection by multiple award-winning Filipina-Australian poet Eunice Andrada KONTRA enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between 'feminine' goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It...

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in...

One of Lit Hub's most Anticipated Poetry Books ! Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme...

A breathtaking debut poetry collection from black&write! fellowship winner Dakota Feirer. 'Where wisdom made me there's a ceremony groundpiling with dead leaves. So much, I lit a cultural fire by...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.May I remember...

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and...

Evocative. Unsettling. Unafraid. Ritual is a ground-breaking new publication which centres and celebrates the diversity of contemporary Muslim-Australian identities and experiences through the timeless power of the written word. As...

An American Lyric The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the mediaIn this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems,...

Translated by Anton Hur How do you write a poem? These startling and beautiful meditations on poetry offer a provocative new answerKick against words like you would kick back on...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry...

Kalokalo, meaning stars in Vosa vakaViti, is Arieta Rika’s first published collection of poems, spanning themes of motherhood, romance, friendship, grief, anger, healing, love. Published by Rarama Ink in collaboration...

'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame,...

Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36...

Signed by the author!“She who wants pearls, has to dive into the sea.” Drawing on art, flora and both Kurdish and Celtic lore, flesh into blossom is an elegant, sensuous...

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair – recasting them as opportunities for...

Alice Pung says of Vociferate, 'be prepared to be blown away!' while Tracy Ryan says that Emily Sun is 'a genuinely new and distinctive presence in Australian poetry.'Let's see how...

Poems of Lyapirtneme from Arrernte Women in Central Australia After selling out its first three print runs and having poems selected for Best of Australian Poems 2021 by Australian Poetry,...

The debut collection from award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King.With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a...

Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019 'A gentle whisper from the past Visits me in my dreams Or is it the future that I see ... ' From well-known...

Following on from the groundbreaking Argosy, Li's second collection Lost Lake ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination. Lost Lake,...

Joint winner of the Tafeda Best Designed Independent Book in the 70th Australian Book Design Awards 2022Shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year 2022Shortlisted in the NSW...

More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author’s journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings...

ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two...

'Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse. With this second collection, Thuy On has cemented...

The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, a National Book Award finalist With Customs, Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions about what...

'I keep looking at the stars to see the universe, but the joke is I am the universe.' the body countryis an evocative exploration of a world that too often...

South African Poems of Decolonisation A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry. ‘'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 — but i was never born...

A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers published to commemorate Sydney WorldPride being held on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Dharawal and...

She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We...