Cirrus@Austlit

'Full of cheek and wit, Sholto Buck's debut collection presents us with a kaleidoscopic view of (sub)urban feeling, being and relating. These poems, attuned as they are to practices of noticing and observing, offer ways to articulate a world that shimmers and shifts around the self, and which fuels our desires. In the words of US poet Elaine Kahn, Buck's poems shine 'like cherries in a bright blue pool'.' (Publication summary)

'Mitchell Welch’s debut collection is an inventive tour de force that sets forth, in the words of Dominique Hecq, 'a poetic universe full of provocation, seeings-into and ludic energy'. In two sections, 'Vehicles Of' and 'Vehicles For', Welch sets up a dialectic between two contrary dimensions of existentialism, exploring through deft poetic lines and language play both the irreconcilable alienation of the individual and the emancipatory potential of community.' (Publication summary)

'Nadia Niaz dances worlds into being. Hers is a rich and heady
poetry, unafraid to play with form, spun for us across contrasting worlds, languages, time, customs. It’s a poetry to savour, gasp and marvel at for its spirit of sustained and generous observation.’

—Kevin Brophy' (Publication summary)

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'Jake Goetz splices Southbank strolls with explorer diaries in this jump cut account of Maiwar’s millennia of history. The poem meanders, like the river itself, from headwaters near Kilcoy, bending, switching back on itself before eventually draining into Moreton Bay as the poet grapples with colonialism’s brutal annihilation to find his place in the River City in the 21st century. It’s an ambitious first collection that makes a significant contribution to Meanjin’s mythology.
 — Liam Ferney' (Publication summary)

'Holly Friedlander Liddicoat’s debut collection CRAVE is raw, skeptical, sometimes drunk, always fearless, and says ‘sry if this poetry ruins yr party’ to Sydney’s Inner West, as it flips the bird at real estate agents, SUVs and a plenitude of jerk-offs. It travels too—overseas, into the outback, into memory, through trips at parties and pubs, and the journeys of close relationships—all while documenting a coming-of-age.
 — Toby Fitch' (Publication summary)

l'Maureen Gibbons provides an imaginative, emotionally honest and deliberately inconclusive story for an actual historical figure - a homeless woman known as The Butter Lady, who was found dead in a Perth park in 2001.' (Publication summary)

'‘Sydney Road Poems articulates the layers and structures of feeling and history in the course of a street in Melbourne, one which has been all too eagerly ossified as a gentrified playground of the bourgeois ‘hipster.’ These poems rescue and animate the site’s truths. Frascarelli’s is a committed work of resistance, and a fascinating work of art.’ (Ali Alizadeh)' (Publication summary)

'‘The sodomitical history of 1860s Collingwood and Fitzroy flashes in Mark Peart’s historical documentary. Lively substance, true to the record. A queer triumph.’ (Kate Lilley)' (Publication summary)

'The book is inspired by a series of offerings weaving poems and plants that began in

Mexico and took root in Australia...' (Source: Tamryn Bennett website)

'Architecturally effervescent, pick up half under pulsates with the shock-rhythms of daily encounters. burrowes has an eye open to the traffic of life, and an ear close to the ground's music.' (Publication summary)