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Puncher & WattmannPuncher & Wattmann is an independent Australian publisher of quality Australian writing, publishing novels, poetry, biography, criticism, short story collections. Their list continues to grow and achieve significant critical recognition.
Bonny Cassidy’s first book, Certain Fathoms, glimmers with preciselyobserved moments that make a strange place of the familiar. Thesepoems speak not only to each other but to and of other writers: ...
Praise for the Newcastle Poetry Prize:‘Australian poetry is emerging as one of its most significant cultural achievements. There will come a time when the part played in this by the Newcastle...
Don’t be deceived by this tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India ...
Concrete Tuesday contains two new sequences – the stunning “Grace”, which won the Josephine Ulrick Prize in 2008 and tells the story, backwards, of a man who loses his soul, and “The Poet’s...
“John Watson can write a wicked metaphor and a sensuous simile. Insight is underwritten by sly humour in these perceptions of life as art and art as life. The whole delicious caboodle is rife with ...
“Each poem has a sustained luminescence in it: an exuberance of feeling, wit and a nimble sentience. It is poetry about being in the world and curious, and it exists in a zone completely its own”
Bi...
Is it flowers? Women plait them into their hair; truckies flower their driving-cabins for long dusty journeys…
Is it colour? Emerald green ricefields; or the sun’s gold flare on an egret’s wing as i...
“This is a genuinely innovative take on self-consciousness: it cheeks the character’s self-pitying hesitation to call himself a poet, celebrates his disappointments and listlessness, and neatly...
“In Traps and Sanctuaries, Mark Mahemoff alternates between those experiences of the everyday that act like snares to bedevil us and those that beguile us into moments of heightened perception...
Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would you still rescue a drowning man if you knew the amount of ...
Puncher & WattmannSo what’s new? Of course I knowthat every English has its bad day. HolyChurch of Literature pleaseforgive the above. I was just beating aboutsome hush (nothing betterto do) &...
The point of power is power. To maintain itself and to keep all other contenders away. Power had nothing to do with good things. I think that’s it, said the Premier. That’s the Labor way.
Michael...
in that country of nerves as raw as fire I watch the reinvention of a woman as she punches and kicks and screams across a thousand tinderous nights of lies as clear as christmas lights
These poems a...
“When we put Kissane’s almost telepathic empathy, his political subtlety and his humour together with his wide-ranging technical skills we have an Australian poet who is both a pleasure to read...
Ten nights. Ten haunted locations. One terrifying adventure across Australia.From a gaol cell to a lunatic asylum to a night in a haunted hearse, The Ghost Poetry Project is one poet’s attempt to f...
Don’t turn to this book for the facile or expect platitudes. Perlstone wrenches language and syntax to deliver to you an edgy and unique perspective. Well crafted, these poems are hard-won gems of ...
Fire is the madnessin us all. And with it, periodically, he torches all his dreamsof safety and starts over. When the future comes, if ever she comes,she’ll speak, he knows,a new species of...
Keepers is highly entertaining and serious; there are brilliant flashes and reflections, ironic observations and a lot of humour. The poems form stories and portraits of recognisable and...
Bruce Dawe has received wide recognition as Australia’s most popular poet, his books often being set for study at secondary and tertiary levels. Slo-Mo Tsunami offers a typically wide range of...
Don’t be deceived by this tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India ...
The actor who can’t leave the stage – like the sales rep who lives in transit, the stenographer who throws himself on the mercy of the court, the chess master who fakes his own funeral, the judge w...
Beyond here, there might be an orange orchard.
Each tree a kind of orchard. Each orange eating the sun.
— “Orange orchard”
“‘Brief trees begin to elaborate’, says Catherine Vidler in ‘19 lines from...
“Paul Hardacre’s lines, packed with music, humming with art and literature, gather in a world that seems marvellously positive in this dark time. The depth and craft of these lines reveals serious ...
What would the Australian outback be like to the mind of a mid-nineteenth centur clergyman obsessed with John Brand’s Popular Antiquities? What would happen if the Styx were really the Lachlan...
“What does it mean to be a poet?
In Montale: A Biographical Anthology wonders of the ordinary are recounted by men we will never know. So Montale (if it is Montale) marvellously mistakes moonlight f...
This new collection offers three works taken from different periods: ‘At the Onset of Turbulence’ (1989), ‘Frieze’ (2001) and ‘Erasure Traces’ (2006), the last two of which continue the...
They don’t make politicians like ‘Jack’ Brookfield anymore. From mining underground in Broken Hill he ‘rose like a meteor in public life’ to be possibly the most extreme anti-politician ever to be ...
“Meredith Wattison is one of our most edgy and luminous practitioners. Herpoems build towards a contained, steady precision, and her language has anelemental purity that transmutes into fl...
Apollo in George Street is a revelation. Not only does it tell the story of one of Australasia’s major forgotten literary figures, it also chronicles a surprisingly unconventional period in...
In Sly Mongoose the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and...
The life of William Morris – poet, designer, socialist visionary – and the music of Björk – Icelandic chanteuse extraordinaire: are these the materials for a modern opera? The Inner West Creative M...
“I want you to know, as you sitreading this on your black and starless planetthat you should not find that blankblanket of night reason to believe the stars do not exist,the galaxies, the Milky...
“in bed with the media US soldiers wear red lipstickinto battle sport a pretty face for the nightly lounge-roomhype in the chip-crunching ’burbs — what if you were caughtwithout make-up in t...
“courting on a verandah under a sulphurous moon with her father all ears in the bathroom stropping his razor to the rhythm of the creaking love-seat…” — from “Snapshots of Olive”
“John Carey’s...
It’s as if the late Vincent Buckley had a brother who stayed on the farm working year after year on plain, taciturn poems that read like secular hymns and prove that the knotty is often better...
An improvisation on a number of themes by Helen Garner, on one level this book is a study of literary semiotics and linguistic meaning. More importantly perhaps, it’s a careful picture of what it w...
“If the purpose of poetry is to make strange what is familar, then McLarendoes this with aplomb. I find myself marvelling at what I have ‘neverseen’ though I recognise it as home. He can make...
Intensely observant, gravely acute, these poems are a true achievement. In Simon West we have a poet who knows how to weight a line, how to savour a phrase. But he also proffers the nimble wit of t...
Westering is a dazzling collection. It displays a range of allusiveness, wisdom and technical skill amounting to virtuosity that calls for the right use of superlatives. Kirkpatrick endlessly...
In this stunning, visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson offers cautionary threnodies that muse on environment and the endurance of theme park notions of the natural—in spheres poetic and...
Using the Rorschach inkblots as metaphors, conjuring the wondrous and the monstrous in his poems, Toby Fitch brings a new vision and shape to Australian poetry. Old modes of expression — such as...
A new poet on the block, M A Carter is uncaring of the niceties and the pat expressions of much poetry within the status quo – instead, Carter is mordant, immoderate, opinionated and likely to...
The rich diversity of Australian poetry stands in no need ofmakeovers or prescriptions. What will benefit it is attentive andbrilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one ofits...
The first contemporary book of its kind: poems by gay and lesbianpoets writing now in the freedoms and dangers of the 21st century.Out of the Box features poems by David Malouf and Dorothy...
From colonial origins to vibrant metropolis, Sydney has been portrayed with great liveliness and precision by its poets.
This anthology’s range extends from the foot of the Blue Mountains through...
Motherlode is the first major collection of Australian women’s poetry inover a decade. More than 120 poets share the telling of a verycontemporary story of identity – how we see ourselves as and...
Too much information can be hard to swallow. Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow.
Evidence blows away when the earth is fallow. Some seeds take. Some graves are shallow.
Blending...
This collection places Langford’s work in a substantially new light – judicious,and in some cases significantly rewritten selections from his previous five books as well as a book-length selection ...
Alan Fish was writing poetry before his life went dark. He let it collect like a tank of rain-water. His subject matter? Love and death. His poetry is deeply haunted and lyrical in its privacy but ...
‘In Julie Chevalier’s Linen Tough As History Frank O’Hara meets Julia Gillard on election night for lime spiders at Fairy Meadow beach: “she’s hurrying toward him as fast as she can with the sole o...
Diesel green the river Pretends it has no name (It is, of course, the Hawkesbury) And on the poplar bank
The trees are as delicateStrong and beautifulAs Sidney Nolan painting with RipolinIn his...
These new poems from Simon West centre, for the most part, on landscape: the actual, the figurative, the local, the European. With a sure feeling for place (especially forest), The Yellow Gum’s...
These poems explore the horrors and effects of war with fierce, unrelentingattention. The poetry is precise in its details and has a dignity and claritythat is hard-won. Winifred Weir can...
The Wing Collection presents a broad overview of the distinctivecontribution Diane Fahey has made to Australian poetry overthe course of thirty years. It offers extensive selections fromher work...
Don’t bother reading this book, but please do buy it. Ifyou own it you don’t need to read it, and you’ll help stopmy publisher going broke. Also, you’ll be supportingpoetry, which is a Good...
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