Collection:
Poetry
The Intimacy Trials
Black Life
Song of the Shadow of a Seed
Traffic Saga
I Don't Love You Anymore
Fitzroy North 3068
Above Ground
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden
The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master
Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers
The Moon That Turns You Back
Two Tongues
To All the Women I've Ever Loved
Startlement
You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine
The Magpie at Night
Vampire Squid: Poems from the deep sea
We Call to the Eye and the Night
Soon It Will Be Sunday
Mad Diva
Dear Alter
Night Watch
Love: Stories, Poems and Essays
Firespitter
Year of the Ox
Roadkill for Beginners
Flinch & Air
Going Home
bright sorrow
Transfigurations
The Rot
This is not a Small Voice
beautiful changelings
The Thing About Falling
Hello Lovely!
All the Fighting Parts
Pasifika Navigators: Pasifika Student Poetry Collection
Black Sugarcane
Clay Eaters
In the Hollow of the Wave
Magnolia
Nebulous Vertigo
A Dress of Locusts
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.