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Joss: A History

Joss: A History

Grace Yee

Grace Yee’s follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish, Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences of early Chinese settlers in Bendigo, and their compatriots and descendants across Victoria and New South Wales, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The poems pay tribute to the author’s ancestors, illuminating how they survived – and thrived – amid longstanding colonialist stories that have exoticised and diminished Chinese communities in white settler nations around the Pacific Rim since the gold rushes of the nineteenth century.

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The Victoria Principle

The Victoria Principle

Michael Farrell

In the acclaimed writer’s first book of fiction, Michael Farrell extends the humour and narrative drive demonstrated in recent poetry collections to a new storytelling form. We may think of this collection as one of ‘thought stories’ rather than short stories, offering inflections and reflections on queer Catholicism and mental breakdown, amidst the ongoing contradictions and ironies of contemporary Australian life. ‘One of the most original and compelling collections of short works I have ever come across’ (ArtsHub).

Fiction
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Jenny Grigg wins ABDA award for Best Designed Series

The judges commended the ‘evocative and very elegant design’; the ‘uniformity across the series’; and ‘the quotes on the back.’ The six-book poetry series includes works by Kate Fagan, Judith Beveridge, Hasib Hourani, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Šime Knežević and Grace Yee.

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HEAT

HEAT, Australia's international literary magazine

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HEAT 19 features writing by Miro Bilbrough, Chris Andrews, Vanessa Berry, Michael Farrell, Miriam Webster, and Reyumeh Ejue. Subscribe now to receive this and future issues of Australia’s international literary magazine.

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π.O.

Π.O. is a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene, the chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, and an anarchist who has worked as a draughtsman for forty years to support his art. He is the publisher of Unusual Work by Collective Effort Press, a long-time magazine editor, a pioneer of performance poetry in Australia, and the author of many collections. His latest books are HEIDE and The Tour.

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Amy Crutchfield

Amy Crutchfield studied Classics and Law at the University of Melbourne. Her poetry has been published in Australia, the UK and Ireland. She has worked as a teacher and a lawyer. The Cyprian is her first book.

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