Recent Work Press

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.

11/05/2024

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22/04/2024

This idea of returning forms one of the central tropes of Feldspar in both a figurative and literal sense. Many of these poems revisit scenes of the past, of the casual rituals of life down on the …

19/04/2024

In the face of fire, flood and plague, environmental catastrophe and political chaos, the challenge is that poetry, in Auden’s words, ‘show an affirming flame’.
The poems in The Dancing Man are an attempt to move from grief and loss towards consolations, however limited these might be. Intimations of connection and inter-dependence between all living things is the fragile basis for a first step towards spiritual re-orientation and an art of hope.

17/04/2024

Big night with and launching their new books, and a great open mic
Thanks for coming along!

17/04/2024

What a great night it was at Smith's Upstairs. Thanks for coming along everyone.

12/04/2024

Our next Recent Work Reading features Lucy Alexander (Equations of Breath) and Adrian Caesar (The Dancing Man).
We'll also be doing this one in the new upstairs space at Smith's. Hope you can join us.

10/04/2024

‘Lucy Alexander’s poems, vibrant, smart and witty with awareness of the ways a woman’s voice can be side-lined and side-stepped, attentive to the almost untouchable meniscus of grief, caught by ideas and music, become a body of poetry that incorporates astronomy, mythology, biology, neuroscience, landscape, nature, breath, air and song thrillingly and knowingly. If you take them with you, these poems, like her phone, will be that ‘wasp buttoned into a pocket’ — and best of all the only user’s manual you’ll need is your human heart.’

Kevin Brophy

10/04/2024

2023

22/03/2024

This collection of poems is a satirical hall of mirrors, drawing you down unexpected corridors where pervasive surveillance technologies and the digital economy are entwined with the personal to reveal both the grotesque and exalted

20/03/2024

I spent much of 2023 inadvertently giving Shastra Deo’s The Exclusion Zone the silent treatment. I felt, for reasons now irrelevant, consigned to my own bathetic exclusion zone, as if the book were…

20/03/2024

Aye, it was a good evening. Thanks everyone and Sarah for the pics.

14/03/2024

Jen Webb and Jacqui Malins, 7PM 18 March, Smith's Alternative

08/03/2024

This collection traces the period from 2019, and the catastrophe fires in Australia, through the COVID years and beyond, feeling its way into how we live in the world, and how we might reflect on the value of listening to the many voices that make up our everyday experience.

06/03/2024

In the music library at the Barbican Centre in London, the walls are lined with symphonies and sonatas, rigoletti and reference books for jazz and opera. Two men gossip about a composer. A man wear…

04/03/2024

Recent Work Reading featuring Jen Webb and Jacqui Malins, 7pm 18 March @ Smith's Alternative. Yay.

16/02/2024

This is a book that revels in the non-conformative nature of its subject, and the principle of living life with truly individual purpose. It speaks to fans and detractors alike; to musicians, both professional and amateur; also to the general, curious reader not only about music but a wealth of associated cultural issues.

09/02/2024

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18/01/2024

14/12/2023

What a beautiful way to start the year than to attend the launch of what will be a sublime collection, 'The Sea Chest' Recent Work Press by the very talented Kerry Greer at Rabble Books & Games on the 17th of January, 6pm.
Launched by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Secure your tickets here;
https://www.rabblebooksandgames.com.au/c/events__40

29/11/2023

// AUSTRALIAN POETS… do you have a poetry book coming out in 2024?

I’ll once again be doing a list of 2024 releases in the New Year and would love to include your title. There will be two lists: one for established poets and one for debut poets.

If you want your book included, let me know in the comments the title and publisher / self-published and if it’s a debut.

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Thanks humans. Love, SPM