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1 y separately published work icon In the Printed Version of Heaven Sholto Buck , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2024 27424832 2024 selected work poetry

'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)

1 1 y separately published work icon Vehicular Man Mitchell Welch , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2023 27424792 2023 selected work poetry

'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)

1 2 y separately published work icon The Djinn Hunters Nadia Niaz , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2023 26861325 2023 selected work poetry

'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)

1 1 y separately published work icon Apollo Bay William Fox , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2023 26861246 2023 selected work poetry '‘William Fox reminds us that, behind the poetry, poets are human and are built from place. For years, Fox has crafted his voice to arrive at this magnificent debut: biding time, honing cadence, refining his ability to lure us to a bluestone precipice where, a few poems in, we become trapped in the hyper-realism of the author’s environments. The poetry is vulpine with calculation and footfall, attack and strategy and reflects the soundscape of a rural space. Don't even bother with a picnic … follow Fox into the bush and the hamlets found there. If you come back, read the collection again.’ —Kent MacCarter' 

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1 2 y separately published work icon No Camellias Rebecca Cheers , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2022 26211847 2022 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon How To Eat Fire And Why Mitch Tomas Cave , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2022 26023394 2022 selected work poetry ‘...Far from the mythology and misinformation about fire that circulates in non-Indigenous Australia, Cave’s poetry works from the senses, humour, and a projection of the self into a bigger picture among other people and species. Many of these poems are in love with the tides and colours of his home at Noosa Heads, as Cave pieces together his own ethos for feeling and thinking.’ — Bonny Cassidy' (Publication summary) 
1 1 y separately published work icon When a Punk Becomes a Spunk Gareth Morgan , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2022 24510751 2022 selected work poetry 'This is vagabonding for the pleasures of metal, for the exuberance of punk love, for endless lyrical charge. This is poetry for everything, forever: fata morgana of Williamstown or is the poet on fire? Gareth Morgan’s book is rudely beautiful, a prolonged sensation melting through psychedelic intelligences + intimacies.
—Lucy Van' 

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1 y separately published work icon Who Loves at All Natalie Briggs , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2020 19627655 2020 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon The Empty Show Alice Allan , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2019 18577390 2019 selected work poetry 'Drawing influence from her omnivorous reading, Alice infuses word collages and broken fields of type with lyric feeling. In this debut collection she has curated poems that reflect conditions of lostness. She observes and resists the desire to make logical conclusions, opting instead for phrases, images and voices of anachronism and surprise.
— Bonny Cassidy' (Publication summary)
1 2 y separately published work icon You Will Not Know In Advance What You’ll Feel Antonia Pont , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2019 18577337 2019 selected work poetry 'This threshold, the edge of things' - now, this single instant, unfolding through itself time, syntax, memory, want. You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel has this radically spare structure of thought, within which, against which, Pont is characterful, quick, sensuous, ecstatic. Like Woolf's novel The Waves, this work creates the silence out of which it speaks. It washes the words in it. Reading these poems, you meet time - face to blind face. - Lisa Gorton'
1 2 y separately published work icon Meditations with Passing Water Jake Goetz , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2018 15364299 2018 selected work poetry

'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)

1 2 y separately published work icon Crave Holly Friedlander Liddicoat , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2018 15364261 2018 selected work poetry

'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)

1 3 y separately published work icon In Some Ways Dingo Melody Paloma , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2017 13420148 2017 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon P(oe)Ms Dave Drayton , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2017 11470780 2017 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Butter Lady : A Silhouette Biography in Verse Maureen Gibbons , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2016 10416309 2016 selected work poetry

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)

1 2 y separately published work icon Sydney Road Poems Carmine Frascarelli , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2016 10416227 2016 selected work poetry

'‘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)

1 1 y separately published work icon The Great Eastern Mark A. Peart , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2016 10416175 2016 selected work poetry

'‘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)

1 4 y separately published work icon Phosphene Tamryn Bennett , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2016 10058116 2016 selected work poetry

'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)

1 1 y separately published work icon Pick up Half Under Geraldine Burrowes , Clifton Hill : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2015 9037998 2015 selected work poetry

'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)

1 3 y separately published work icon The Night's Live Changes Tim Wright , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2014 8418568 2014 selected work poetry
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