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Is poetry writing labour Perhaps I am so damaged that I don't consider writing poetry labour. Every weekend I replenish myself by collapsing and every week I work within a system that is hideous and greasy, that remains ineffective in dealing with whatever it claims to tackle.

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Bird follows Carson, a young, cerebral Aboriginal man who traverses his way in and out of the prison system in Western Australia. The story is told through the multiple white characters Carson encounters along his journey.

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In poems that shuttle between Australian and Singapore, Kim Cheng Boey seeks to establish a new sense of self and home on the shifting, liminal ground between memory and imagination. Kim Cheng Boey lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Newcastle.

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As its title suggests, Dead Bolt is a meditation on home and its ability to become suddenly unhomely or uncanny. Ella Jeffery's poetry ranges from the plangent and elegiac to the comic and satirical. ... its extraordinary imagery is matched by a marvellous attention to poetry's sonic capacity. Dead Bolt is a compelling, exquisitely realised debut

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Eardrum is a book of poems and prose meditations about music. It developed, the author says, out of fascination with an art-form that is both strange and intimate: one, moreover, that poses a parallel set of questions to those raised by poetry.

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Gathers together essays on contemporary Australian poetry and poetics. Contributors include Pam Brown, Peter Kirkpatrick, and Martin Langford writing on topics and poets as diverse as the new lyricism, the contemporary prose poem and Les Murray.

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Ouyang Yu has been one of Australia's most prolific producers of poetry, translations and edited collections for the last three decades. This collection gathers much of this experimental work, with some of the poems collected in this book dating as far back as late 1982.

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Gas Deities comes from a quest for meaning that negates the big ticket items of ego, intellectual fashion and salvation, for the generative joys of doubt. Using dramatic monologues and the slipperiness of the lyrical "I" Wright takes us on a journey through suburban Australia, with the odd overseas excursion.

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The simplest of places that at every moment confronts with fresh ambiguities: 'The world's yard': is it a tree-lined garden where children are playing or the yard where a yardarm is erected, the executioner's noose always dangling or the boneyard where heretic and believer lie side by side to whisper their shared confidences

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This anthology's range extends from the foot of the blue mountains through the suburban heartlands to the works and days of the harbour and the beach.

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The Human Project provides selections from Langford's previous five five books as well as a book-length selection of new poems. As well as meditations on the strangeness and fragility of the idea of the human, there are poems on the environment, on literature, and on contemporary Australian life.

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Kangaroo Unbound is a collection of 50 poems that take their titles and inspiration from legendary Australian artist Garry's Shead's iconic 'D.H. Lawrence' series of paintings, which he produced in the early 90s in response to Lawrence's 1923 novel Kangaroo.