At the time of his passing Lionel Fogarty was working on his latest collection, Warrior with a Fighting Stick. He was that warrior, and in his poetry and painting, language was his fighting stick.

Osdany Morales’ Security Questions, translated from the Spanish by Harry Bauld, uses the security questions that Morales was asked on his arrival in the US as way into his experiences as an immigrant. 

‘Ruins, Child, then, is a work gathered/rooted in landscape – the salt marsh of the Hutchinson River. That is to say, I write first toward stillness. Always public and domestic spaces, collective movement, and a granular examination of proximity and discomfort.’

Giramondo is delighted to be publishing three novels by the acclaimed Danish novelist Helle Helle, ‘one of Scandinavia’s finest authors’ (Dagbladet).

‘On the third of April her mother says: “I must have swallowed a stone.” They go for a walk by the playing fields, the anemones are out. Some small boys are playing football, shrieks and shouts, one of them’s crying up against the goalpost. Her mother’s in her winter coat. They’re having beefburgers, hence the walk. She’s wearing an Icelandic sweater herself, it’s still too early yet, the wind cuts through the wool.’

‘No moon, just the stars / on the white sand, the milky / way, the sea’s loose edge.

Like hands, the last brown / fig leaves as they curl up cold / fingers in the rain.’

‘When assisting Beverley’s son Taki to gather material for the website he was creating to commemorate his mother’s legacy, I discovered that he was unaware of the haiku manuscript. It was no longer on computers and after a frantic search I located my copy in an old box of research papers and postcards from Beverley’s travels around the world, secured only by a rusty paper clip.’ 

Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Poetry in Translation Prize, selected from 259 submissions in more than 55 languages.

Three Giramondo authors have been shortlisted in the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Eunice Andrada’s KONTRA and Ender Başkan’s debut Two Hundred Million Musketeers are finalists for poetry; and Lee Lai’s graphic novel Cannon is a finalist in the fiction category.

‘we dont make the pilgrimage anymore / but i offer pick-ups and drop-offs all the time / its good to see a friendly face on the other end / back then the aura of travellers / some gold dust that rubbed off onto you / probably more for me / id never been to turkey but i was turkish / our backyard was under a flightpath / look up and imagine / my cousin forgot how to speak english after six months there’

The much-loved, award-winning poet has been recognised for her extraordinary body of work, which includes Tintinnabulum, Storm and Honey and Sun Music.

‘The secret about reading, I used to say, at such times, was to know when to refrain. I would be told I had never mastered it; but that was probably because poetry, which I read slowly and only a little at a time, but almost every day, carried along on the rhythm, was not counted as difficult reading by me.’

‘Elegant long sentences were eluding me. We were being broken open. I was not making sense, common sense, but I was connecting to some sensibility that felt true to me.’

‘At the pub, we decided we wanted it to be like a society magazine for the precariat. We would do in-depth reporting on important events and ideas, and publish pieces rooted in the pleasures of people and their scenes.’

‘There’s a way your unwashed hair / smells under the sun, like damp grass / dragged into my bedroom.’

‘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. It is also a reflection on what it means to work with and within language as a Filipina writer. A contribution, perhaps, to an ongoing lineage in the Filipina poetics of refusal.’