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‘KONTRA is, in many ways, a surgical operation on lineage, on language, on desire. This project engages the canon I grew up with – the kontrabida as she exists in Filipino media and her cultural equivalents across the world: women punished for wanting.’ – Eunice Andrada
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Out now ✨ KONTRA, the latest collection by the award-winning poet Eunice Andrada.
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‘Few poets can unsettle the contours of desire and power like Eunice Andrada… A work of ferocious beauty.’
– Manisha Anjali
‘Andrada’s most assured and impressive collection yet.’
– Bella Li
Out now 🔥 HEAT 21
The new issue features writing by Peter Stamm (trans. Michael Hofmann), Alex Wong, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Harrower, Amy Crutchfield, Hon Lai Chu (trans. Jacqueline Leung) and Catherine Kaixin Yu.
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‘At some point you ask yourself: what do we write for, if not to say, this is how it felt to me—can you see it?’
Raaza Jamshed speaks with Liminal Magazine about What Kept You?, her brilliant debut novel.
Read more: liminalmag.com/5-questions/raaza-jamshed
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To receive your discount, enter the coupon code SPRINGSALE30 at checkout. This offer is valid from now until midnight on Sunday 21 September 2025. T&Cs apply.
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The New York Times reviews Cannon by Lee Lai ⭐
‘The economy of Lai’s dialogue, and of her mostly black-and-white illustrations, belies the breadth and complexity in her storytelling,’ writes Sam Thielman.
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Out now ✨ Cannon, the new graphic novel by the acclaimed Australian cartoonist Lee Lai, and the highly anticipated follow-up to her Stella-shortlisted debut, Stone Fruit.
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‘A blend of sharp wit and raw emotion’
– Sydney Morning Herald (Best Books of 2025)
rock flight by Hasib Hourani has been shortlisted for Poetry in the 2025 #PMLitAwards!
This debut book, which composes a powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation, has now won two literary awards and been a finalist for five since its publication last year.
Learn more: bit.ly/rockflight
Congratulations to Judith Beveridge, shortlisted for The Laurel Prize for her poetry collection Tintinnabulum! 🌿🎉
‘In my poetry, I have always tried to impart a sense of reverence for the natural world [and] … to use language as a mechanism for wonder, joy and revelation.’
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‘51 Alterities is a self-satirising, digressive, ungovernable chronicle of my inner and outer territories… [it] is what remains of my lyric voice and what remains for me of poetry as it competes for valency in our increasingly amped-up era of tech broligarchy.‘ – Keri Glastonbury
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Out now ✨ 51 Alterities by Keri Glastonbury
The author of Newcastle Sonnets returns with a book that responds to the persistent threat of economic austerity, and to poetry’s precarious place in a landscape dominated by billionaire tech bros and social media empires.
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Out 1 November 2025 ✨ EXCLUSIVE! Dispatches from The Paris End, an anthology by Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds, Oscar Schwartz of The Paris End.
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‘An extraordinary debut full of ritual and poetry’ ⭐
What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed receives a full-page and full-hearted review in the Guardian today!
Read the full piece by Bec Kavanagh: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Congratulations to Nikos Papastergiadis, shortlisted for the National Biography Award for his blended autobiography and literary memoir, John Berger and Me! ✨
Read the judges’ comments: bit.ly/4eEHmc3
‘A powerful, promising new voice.’
Raaza Jamshed’s debut novel What Kept You? has been named a ‘best new book’ by Guardian Australia!
Learn more about this remarkable coming-of-age story: bit.ly/whatkeptyou
Out now ✨ What Kept You?, the powerful debut novel by Raaza Jamshed.
A feminist anti-tale, written in a uniquely expressive voice that floats between English, Urdu and Arabic, the novel explores survival, metamorphosis, and the radical freedom of choosing one’s own ending.
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Congratulations to Hasib Hourani, winner of the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award for rock flight! 🏆🎉
rock flight also won the 2025 NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for several other Australian and international literary awards ✨
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Congratulations to Brian Castro, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Chinese Postman! ✨
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Announcing 🥁 The Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English, run collaboratively by Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions.
Submissions will open from 15 July to 15 August.
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Out now ✨ Joss: A History, Grace Yee’s follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish.
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‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.
‘What Kept You? is a dazzling, poignant tale of defiance and metamorphosis in an ever-changing world.’
The first review Raaza Jamshed’s debut novel is out with Books+Publishing!
Read more: www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 5 stars from ArtsHub to Michael Farrell’s first book of fiction, The Victoria Principle!
‘Farrell has created…one of the most original and compelling collections of short works I have ever come across.’
Read more of Erich Mayer’s review: bit.ly/4dnsluq
Congratulations to Hasib Hourani, winner of the #NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for rock flight! ❤️
From the judges’ report: ‘rock flight is a rendering of crimes, a guide for survival, and a recognition of the disruptive potential of paper, voice and stone.’
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‘I had an idea that would enable me to conceptualise my long-held desire to adapt Nirvana’s song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ as an artwork. The idea was that I would boil an egg for as long as the song…’
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The new issue of HEAT is out this week! Join us on Thursday 22 May for the Melbourne launch party at the Crystal Palace and Courtyard, where you can hear readings from Series 3 contributors π.O., Michael Farrell and Miriam Webster.
Free entry! Please RSVP: events.humanitix.com/launch-party...
‘The stories try out things that haven’t been possible in poems in over twenty years of publishing books of poetry: some are purely fictional, some are partly autobiographical, or give clues – and red herrings – about my life…’ – Michael Farrell
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