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Shorter Lives' histories of notable creators drift away from conventional tellings to offer alternative facts and believable untruths. No small part of the author's research, however, has been the trawling of existing biographies for unrepresentative, yet documented, instances of the bizarre.

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Succinct and reticent, Lu Piao, also as part of his pen-name, Piao (drifting, fluttering or floating), suggests, is a drifty kind of a poet, skipping over the wavelets of poetry, formed in tightly knit words or expressions, dipping into the life experiences of the poet while trying to bury them in an attempt to conceal them.

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In this book of poems the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today.

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These micro-essays - prose pieces varying between a few hundred and a few thousand words - are an engagement with law and poetry and certain ideas about community and the process of justice.

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This first full-length volume draws from poems written over roughly ten years: prose sequences, sonnets or thereabouts, parody-homages, a metro poem, psychical collaborations, and drawn from small-print chapbooks. Combining a condensed lyricism, collage, and durational procedures, the collection works its way through days and the everyday...

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Mothers-in-law are famous for being difficult but when Nell marries Andy it's her father-in-law, Hal, who is the problem. A corrosive force in his own family, Hal is a truly ugly Australian who spreads his corruption whenever he gets the chance.

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These eleven stories bound together by recurring characters and by subtle devices such as the painter Marc Chagall and an overheard conversation on a train gradually develop the surprising resonances of a fictional world that is both familiar and strange, engaging and exhilarating.

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New book of poetry by Meredith Wattison. Meredith is one of our most edgy and luminous practitioners. Her poems build towards a contained, steady precision, and her language has an elemental purity that transmutes into flint-like brilliance.

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The Boy in the Baseball Capexplores a range of subjects, and explores gay and lesbian themes, in a post-Menglong style.

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This is an important and timely book from a mature, perspicacious voice. Phyllis Perlstone shows us a Monash behind the image on the $100 bank note: the engineer, innovator, man-about-town, husband, father, warrior, tactician; his love affairs and vanities; the prejudice he encounters and regards as 'strange dislike'.

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The Clambake is the annual culmination of a new poetry project in Newcastle, NSW - 'Cuplet Poetry Night'. Founded by Claire Albrecht in August 2018, the monthly event hosts poets from across Australia and the world.

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'I'd love to offer a tightly-themed book, but this is not it touches on many concerns and interests. The times demand it and so do people encountered, things seen and felt. These are poems from nearly thirty years.' Judith Rodriguez

Thirty years of diverse and fascination poems from a leading and much loved Australian poet.

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The Hard Wordis the second collection from this respected and influential critic and teacher. The poems contain his trademark conversational tone combined with vivid wit and is the distillation of 12 years of poetry.