harmless drudge

We are proud to announce the arrival of Julie Janson's debut poetry collection. JULIE JANSON, a Burruberongal woman of Darug Aboriginal nation, who lives on the south coast of NSW, will be well-known to many as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. She has had ten plays produced professionally in Australia, Indonesia and USA. Gunjies was nominated for an AWGIE Award and received a Highly Commended Award from the Human Rights Commission; Eyes of Marege, a collaboration with Teater Kita...

On 20 June, All That Could Be Lost, Melanie Jansen’s debut poetry collection, will be formally launched by eminent poet and 5Islands Press Managing Editor, Mark Tredinnick, at the beautiful Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. We invite you to join us for an evening of poetry and conversation. Imagine a child is fighting for life in intensive care. Imagine that you need to decide how--and sometimes whether--to treat that child. Imagine how it feels to tell the parents the crisis is over. Imagine...

Just out this week is Jonathan Cant's Finding Pan. You will not have read of book of poems quite like this one. Finding Pan is a journey of discovery: verbal, thematic, tonal and formal. The exhilaration of Jonathan’s wordplay is infectious and intoxicating. Words are rarely left as he finds them, but walked around and re-applied, taken apart and reconstructed, hidden parts of them revealed. As Audrey Molloy has written, “Rarely in contemporary Australian poetry do we find the English...