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This powerful novel about the Gulf country works on many levels and registers. At its centre is Norm Phantom, an old man of the sea and custodian of indigenous lore, his wife Angel Day, and their son Will, who is involved in a deady fight for land rights against the shadowy proprietors of the huge Gurfurit mine.

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Michael Farrel's second collection employs collage and layout in a poetic raid on popular culture, remixing Elton John, Emily Bronte, Gerard Depardieu and Dorothy Porterm in his typically irreverant way, which has been described as a blitzkrieg of musicality.

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One of Australia's most promising young poets, many of the poems engage with foreign places and cultures.

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A collection of essays, Louis Nowra displays his curiosity, eccentricity and fascination with the weird and the monstrous. His subjects range from porn star Christy Canyon to the grand ambitions of Russian mafiosi, and Australian business entrepreneurs.

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Wall-to-wall quality anthology of contemporary writing by Australian and overseas authors, featuring fiction, poetry and essays by authors like Beverly Farmer, David Malouf, Louis Nowra and Robert Gray and so on. New series.

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Set in the Dandenongs between the Depression and World War II, this book revolves around Swan Hay, the daughter of a Chinese schoolteacher, and her relationships with brutal bushman Darcy Damon, and an American aviator and adventurer.

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The Summer 2005-2006 edition of the highly-regarded HEAT literary magazine offers essays on a wide range of subjects.

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Essays, fiction and poetry by Australia's best writers.

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Presents a selection of poems drawn from the author's second and third collections: "Pech and Blende" (2000) and "Vierzig Kilometer Nacht" (2003). This collection of the author's work appears in English. It is bilingual.

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Features essays by Craig McGregor on going bush in the Byron Bay hinterland; Nicholas Rothwell on the central Australian landscape; Zoe Sadokierski on the new trend in graphic novels; Joseph Pugliese on Carlos Arredondo's empty casket protest against the Iraq war, and many more.

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An anthology of contemporary German poetry translated into English by some of Australia's best poets, including Dorothy Porter and Robert Gray.

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This collection of poetry is about ways of dealing with the world, from contemplative withdrawal to the intense engagements of desire.

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This is the new poetry book by one of Australia's foremost poets and winner of the 2005 Patrick White Literary Award. The author's poems are philosophical meditations based on her own memories and experiences and in this collection she engages closely with contemporary political concerns.

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At its centre is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria in the last years of World War II. Written in a modern baroque style, combining farfetched imagery with intense emotion, this is poetry that leaps out of elaboration into clear air and light.

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This collection of fiction, essays and poems are built around shelterd lives.

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John Hughes enters deep into the world of his imagination, giving voice to the twenty-one writers and artists who have left their traces there. In story-like essays written in the style of his heroes, the effect is like ventriloquy.

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In a godforsaken town, on the edge of the Gibson Desert, an old circus family come to rest. Tarcisius, the 100-year-old father; Magnolita Rosario, the vindictive matriarch who rules over the three sons with an iron fist; and Trinity, who inherits all her grandmother's skills as a trapezist and sets the world alight.

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The Winter 2005 issue of the literary journal "Heat" features writing from Australia and overseas, with essays on actors and mothers, Zen and the city, Catherine Millet and the orgy, and four kinds of walking. There's also poetry by Emma Lew, Ken Bolton and Laurie Duggan, and fiction by Tim Richards and others.