Giramondo poetry in 2023: bundle #1

Royal’s new collection explores the staging of the emotional life, drawing its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning. Her use of the elegiac form offers no answers, only the hope of tearing open conventional understandings of loss and insecurity. As Maria Takolander says: ‘Royal is unafraid to spark light in the darkest of places.’

Presenting a bold new voice in Australian poetry, the poems of Golden Repair are infused with a romantic sensibility, dramatising the ways in which relationships are played out in ordinary circumstances – on balconies, against skylines, and in backyards and streets.

A powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in all its various forms, The Cyprian confronts some of our primary questions about love: how is it possible to accept the death of the beloved? What role does deception play in love? When does love become a force of exploitation? The collection is composed of five parts, reflecting the different aspects of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.