ABDA winning 6-book poetry series

The most personal collection yet from the prize-winning singer, songwriter and poet. In Song in the Grass, archival practices of all kinds offer touchstones, in which poetry becomes a way of sustaining love over distance, a collective music, and a compass for navigating in-common emergencies.

Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, and her first since the prize-winning Sun Music in 2018. The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, with multiplicity everywhere, and an overall feeling of the joy and richness of language.

rock flight is a book-length poem that follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation. Winning the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 2025, and published in three continents, it depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a determination to find significance in fleeting objects and fragments.

In her debut poetry book, the acclaimed author of Saudade unravels myths of homecoming and return, belonging and displacement, patrimony and sovereignty; the poems’ speakers feel both at home and also far from home.

Šime Knežević’s first book-length poetry collection gestures towards the elusive and often fragmented reality of dreams and recollections. The poems speak of distance, dislocation and longing, evoked by the poet’s cultural ties to Croatia, the awkwardness of personal relations and the discomforts of language.

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.