Recent Work Press

31/12/2024

It was enormously satisfying to bring all these books in to 2024:

Makarra by
The Daily News by
Lover, Where Are Your Eyes? by Naznin
Put Out More Prayer Flags by Cliff
Everything Feeds It by Allen
Equations of Breath by
Taking Apart the Bird Trap by
Dublin Wandering by
Weathered by
Outside of Here. Outsider Hear! by
The Dancing Man by
Unclassified by

Thanks to all the people who have helped RWP in 2024 in ways big and small. Particularly the wonderous people on the Editorial Board.

We're looking forward to 2025 and 10 years of RWP!
Happy New Year to you all.

25/10/2024

'What stays with me is a feeling of the utmost care emanating from these poems. To say they have been well-crafted would be an understatement, more accurate is that they have been well-loved into being.'
Thanks Gemma White for this thoughtful review of Es Foong's Clot and Marrow in the always excellent Westerly Magazine .
Waffle Irongirl

Read our review of the beautiful poetry collection, 'Clot and Marrow', by Es Foong (Recent Work Press) on the Editor's Desk!

18/10/2024

Come and join us on the 21st of October for a poetry event featuring readings by Paul Cliff and Andrew Geoffrey Kwabene Moss. All are welcome to attend and discover new collections by these two poets

13/10/2024

This collection is refreshingly diverse in its multiple viewpoints and planetary humanism, meditating on the dichotomous condition of alienation, belonging and the many experiences in between. Outside of Here. Outsider Hear! unlocks experiences of the dislocation of migration and home as an imagined and remembered place.

11/10/2024

A place to find great reads by ACT Region writers, our beloved expats, HARDCOPY Alumni + check out what's on the MARION team radar right now.

30/09/2024

13/09/2024

‘Taking Apart the Bird Trap is a profound meditation on loss and memory. It is true, uncompromising poetry that allows us to ‘feel the weight of a thing about to be free’. Amanda Anastasi’s new collection is a monumental act of metamorphosis, and the mark of a fully realised poetic voice. ‘ Robbie Coburn

13/09/2024

Join us for an exciting Recent Work Reading featuring the talents of Amanda Anastasi and Barrina South. Don't miss out!

08/09/2024

'Tender and attentive, these poems move without fear through darkness and light. Attuned to the music and resonance of the more-than-human world, this collection is distinctive for its wry edges and the crack of its wit, as Barrina South parses the all-too-human in this vivid, splendid debut.'
Felicity Plunkett

27/07/2024

Spotted at the National Library of Australia . Paul Munden

13/06/2024

‘In 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.’ Rachael Mead writes beautifully about nature, about ‘the earth cracking beneath my weight.’ She also has pointed and poignant things to say about people, places and human sensibilities. Emerson would approve.’
Brook Emery

05/06/2024

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Poetry category of the MARION Book Awards!

Winners will be announced at the ACT Literary Awards being held on 27 June at Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

The shortlisted authors are as follows:
Elanna Herbert, Paul Hetherington, Tim Metcalf, K.A. Nelson Kerrie Anne Nelson, and Sandra Renew

Congratulations to those shortlisted, and thank you to all those that entered.

Recent Work Press

21/05/2024

Was a great evening. Thanks for the pics Sarah St Vincent Welch .

21/05/2024

‘Asha Naznin’s poetic voice is unforgettable: unmistakably and uniquely hers. Her work fizzes with ideas and is electric with desire, dreamscape, alternate realities and marvellously puzzling human (and animal) drama and foibles. You will never read a less predictable, more entertaining book of poems.’ Melinda Smith

17/05/2024

Our next Recent Work Reading features Asha Naznin ('Lover, Where Are Your Eyes?') and Jennifer Allen ('Everything Feeds It').
Hope you can join us.

12/05/2024

In Dublin Wandering, Nathanael O’Reilly rearranges, remixes and recombines words and phrases from James Joyce’s Ulysses into seventeen poems, each named for the corresponding episodes in Joyce’s novel. Dublin Wandering is a surrealist work inspired by modernist techniques and philosophies, created as a homage to Joyce’s masterpiece and Dublin.