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Oodgeroo’s writing has a unique place in Australian literature. When her poetry was first published in the 1960s, Kath Walker, as she was known then, provided a brave new voice...

‘Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up...

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational...

What you hold now is Heart and Holes of Void. An anthology, full of emotions and the world that surrounds us all. We may feel emptiness because of the current...

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures.As childhood memory is...

The Boy in the Baseball Cap explores a range of subjects, and explores gay and lesbian themes, in a post-Menglong style.ISBN: 9781925780963 | Published 1 May 2021 | Paperback |...

Translated by Dong LiSong Lin is one of China’s most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was...

The award-winning poet's darkly riotous poetry debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt systemLyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster's debut aims its sights at...

In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng come together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications.Lily Holloway leads off with her collection 'a...

Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn’t belong but...

Life-changing wisdom from the popular Persian sage and poet “What a shame to finally reach the open sea but settle for a modest jug of water!" This is a collection...

An unflinching, heartbreaking collection of poetry about life in the U.S. as a Brazilian immigrant, Aline Mello’s debut poetry collection, More Salt Than Diamond, is a true testament to the...

In his first poetry volume, internationally renowned publisher Naveen Kishore has produced a collection of poems that, with compassion, protest society’s cruelty.Throughout Knotted Grief, Kishore lays bare the nature of...

Translated by Ouyang YuAn award-winning contemporary bilingual Kazakh poet, originally from PRC, writing poetry both in Chinese and Kazakh.ISBN: 9781925780697 | Published: 1 November 2021 | Paperback | 102 pages

Translated by Tiffany TsaoTo say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis – from those around them,...

From famous spoken word poet, artistic educator, and founder/CEO of Called to Move Brandon Leake comes his debut poetry collection Unraveling. In an era of self love, the ability to...

The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in...

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son,...

A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women — and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction,...

A riveting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore's unofficial Poet-Laureate, Edwin Thumboo whose poetry is key to understanding the emotional hinterland of the city-state.Born of Tamil...

A book of poems by bestselling author Deepak Chopra that are deeply spiritual, heartfelt, and touch on topics such as God, love, surrender, consciousness, and peace.In Raid On The Inarticulate,...

A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam – for the tough times, the great times, and everything in between. Depressed, but it’s fine. Anxious, but it’s fine....

You didn’t think I would actually do itAn idea that came to fruition, an ultimate escape.This is a poetry that is like no other, where fantasy and not so great...

A Te Herenga Waka Classic They have left me. The door is locked. The room is entirely bare. . . . Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly...

Mack never thought he'd find love, but now two boys want to be with him. Will he choose Karim or Finlay? And can true love last for ever? A must-read...

Published to commemorate the author’s 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people. Sometimes wistful, melancholic,...

By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid...

A work of defiance, Ouyang Yu's most recent bilingual collection gathers much of his experimental work, with some of the poems collected in this book dating as far back as...

‘Ouyang Yu’s Foreign Matter rages against the vacuity of suburban life, alert to every racist slight, with a linguistic playfulness that shuffles and bounces through English language via the “gibberish...

'Terminally Poetic is Ouyang Yu working through the colonial alphabet and undoing it and himself at various turns and forks in the road. This is the individuated poet — one...

Kingsbury, Victoria is where poet Ouyang Yu has been based since he came from the People's Republic of China in 1991. It was here where he first came into contact...

'Ouyang Yu’s Living After Death comprises poems written from CHina and Australia that also subtly question and provoke the ambitions, trials, and motivations of a writer’s life. In excursions through...

Essays and CriticismISBN: 9780975609231 | Published: 2010 | Paperback | 278 pages

Translated by Ouyang YuA multiple-award winner, widely published at home and abroad, and translated into many languages, Xiao Xiao is known for her sharp take on China’s human rights record...

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far art in...

Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet,...

Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings Introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and...

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life. Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection...

Living Black GirlhoodFrom the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022In the acclaimed poet's first collection since 2013, Calypsonian renderings of the sonnet bubble with febrile lyricism, musicality, and breathtaking emotional depthWith Sonnets...

A Qirgiz Epic Poem in the Manas CycleTranslated by Daniel PriorAn ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'Manas...

Translated and edited by Mid Tofighian and Moones MansoubiThe collected prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, with essays by experts on a wide range of topics from refugees, imprisoned writers and...

Powerful Odes Celebrating Black ManAs he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the...

Powerful Odes Celebrating Black WomenThe poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are...

Poems & StoriesThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Part...

A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to...

'Tagore's life reminds me to take a step back. The time he allowed himself to learn and dream was a commitment of years and decades.' — Rupi KaurRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)...

A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nicholas, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of...

Selected Poems and StoriesYou are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An’ um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar...

The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen. In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine...