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In poems crowded with quotes, events, anecdotes, inventories and fragments of myth, Mirabilia is a work which tests the relationship between art and politics. It is the latest collection from the highly acclaimed Australian poet and novelist, Lisa Gorton.

Poetry

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A novel which mixes fiction and biography, imagination and memory, Mortal Divide is one of the great works on the relationship between migration and identity in Australian literature. First published in 1997, Giramondo is proud to release the book in a new edition, with illustrations by Peter Lyssiotis.

Fiction

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HEAT

HEAT, Giramondo’s celebrated literary journal, returns in a third series

HEAT has relaunched in a new series after a decade-long hiatus. Subscriptions are available now for Australian and international readers. Individual copies are also available for purchase from Giramondo and in select bookstores.

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Recent releases

An Ordinary Ecstasy
Luke Carman
Fiction
July 2022
In the Roar of the Machine
Zheng Xiaoqiong
Poetry
July 2022
How to Be Between
Bastian Fox Phelan
Non-fiction
May 2022
Harvest Lingo
Lionel Fogarty
Poetry
June 2022

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‘These poems are crowded with quotes, events, anecdotes, inventories, and fragments of myth, because I was trying to bring into poetry that heteroglossia (raznorechie, ‘varied-speechedness’) which Mikhail Bakhtin found only in the novel: a clash of different voices, different conceptions of world.’