Tarp Green Light | Carl Walsh
Typesetting and Cover by Rack & Rune Carl Walsh’s ‘Tarp Green Light’ is a first collection of poems that traverses a topography of history, memory, family and loss. Across four chapters, the poems navigate through lifetimes and landscapes. Rain falls and muddies the Yarra or swells rivers in Papua New Guinea. Seas bear Viking longships […]
Alive in Dubbo | D G Lloyd
Typesetting and Cover by Rack & Rune Alive in Dubbo is a collection of localised free verse. The poems are honest reflections, observational and personal depictions of life within an often-overlooked Australian community, serving both as individual snapshots and suggested chronicles of a larger narrative. Raw and sometimes confronting, illuminating and accessible, Alive in Dubbo offers a unique […]
The Leaving | Brian Purcell
Typesetting by Rack & Rune The Leaving features poems mostly written in the past decade, covering the author’s move from the city to the country, new challenges, relationships, landscapes and loves. Poems written with humour and in sorrow, with joy and passion, with incredulity and awe. Sometimes clear-eyed and disturbingly real, sometimes utterly fantastic, containing portraits […]
Foxline | Chris Mansell
Typesetting and Cover by Rack & Rune Foxline reconnoitres the relationship between the land and the creatures on it: Man (a farmer), and Fox. The relationship between the creatures themselves reveals their alien natures. Both claim the land for themselves but neither is autochthonous. They are opposed to each other but have an understanding and an […]
A Ghost Gum Leans Over | Myron Lysenko
Typesetting by Rack & Rune Myron Lysenko’s ‘a ghost gum leans over’ is bigger than most haiku books being published today. The book is divided into sections or sequences, including his daughter’s battle with cancer spanning ten years; a year where a relationship breaks down and splits a family in two; a section of light […]