Every Stolen Moment opens with a gory discovery: the dead body of the Supreme Court of Victoria’s most conservative and polarising judge, the Honourable Harry Somerton. Chapters alternate between the ...

In 1963 – a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide – the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Näku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement ...

In Heavy Petting, four queer art-adjacent 30-somethings move to the town of Casino in northern New South Wales to avoid Melbourne’s strict Covid-19 lockdowns. Sharing a home during the pandemic, their ...

The Medusa Situation joins the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family as they accept their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the Aussie suburbs. Their once exciting, ...

Amy, Jin and their daughter Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for ...

In the 19th century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, ...

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‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that...’ Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery.

rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation. The poem uses ...

Oliver Wormwood is sure his new job in the library will be boring. Until he learns that books hold great power – and danger. By the end of his first day, Oliver has witnessed a death, been frozen by a ...

Written amid the COVID lockdowns of 2020–21, Jake Goetz’s Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that link three unique ecologies located on the Countries of the Dharawal and Eora ...

Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney’s ...