Cirrus@Austlit

'Saaro Umar’s book of poems, Two Uncles, draws on film, conversation, accumulative feelings, insticts, and observation to create a deeply felt and meticulously crafted text.' (Publication summary)

'Black Wattle is a keeping place: a collection of poetry, photography, collage and illustration developed by this mob arts collective over the last 12 months.

'“Warmth, respect, and strength thread our conversations together. We map our connections and disconnections from one another, but also from ourselves. We celebrate the things we have been able to do together and imagine the things we haven’t been able to do together.” – this mob, 2021

'this mob is a blak arts collective based on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri lands. We centre and prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the work that we do, creating spaces to come together to unite emerging blak artists.'(Publication summary)

'A patchwork of romantic poetry and desperately horny found texts. Work & Love is a blurring of the real - jumping castles, mummy issues, secrets - circling the topic of paid and unpaid intimacy in the 21st century.' (Publication summary)

'At Incendium Radical Library we are interested in challenging the prison nation, (including policing) which have been and are currently used to further the colonial project and to oppress those most marginalised. Incendium Radical Library and Press believe incarceration creates trauma and violence and further dehumanises people. Through literature and art, we believe that poetry and other mediums of creativity open dialogue to promote compassion and build community. Poems were written by Courtney White, Colleen Tayba, Stacey Edwards, Wendy Hill, Rebecca Amelung, Rebecca Collier, Helen Nguyen, Tracy Mison, Anneliese Kirchen, Courtney Pollard, Pauline Chantal Limpe, Samantha John, David McGettigan, Zoe, Renee, Kama, Courtney, Hayley, Ashleigh, Lauren, Lanie, Georgia, Erryn, Nicky .D., Jamie-Lee and Lana Gee.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Liquidation is a collection of anti-elegies exploring how love & loss generate experiences of ecstatic awareness & the uncanny sensation of being both inside & outside the body. With shifts, spills & soaks, Liquidation interrogates the representational qualities of language in relation to how varying forms of value are placed on normative expectations relating to emotions & identities.'

Source: Incendium Radical Library.

'Described as “an automaton’s burn book” and “a collection of anti-psalms,” The Tower is a collection of 38 poems from Ainslie Templeton. The poetry interrogates sex magic, networked life, and public speech acts, interspersed with images gleaned from the poems’ development in the artist’s Instagram pages.'

Source: Incendium Radical Library.

'Electric Lotus is an inquiry into the ‘ecstatic’–is it synthetic, manic or electric? It blooms in the naked recitations of the wandering mystic Lal Ded, in the animal and flower companions of the saint Akka Mahadevi, in the throat of the playback singer Asha Bhosle, in the indigo devotion of the cult star Ma Anand Sheela. This is an interactive text for play and performance.' (Publication summary)

'A small text on identity and prosody'.

Source: Front cover.