Ships March 5th 2026

Devices of Body is a visceral archive of survival and becoming — an ode to what the diasporic body endures and remembers. Here is the poet’s world where scars hold their own memory, and how intersecting identities and longing grow into both witness and refuge. This collection stays close to the skin, attentive to all the soft ways we change.

Naming becomes an act of resistance. Moving between English, Chinese, Cantonese, and the liminal spaces between sound and silence, the poet reclaims what risks erasure. When nothing, not even selfhood, feels certain, Devices of Body simply attempts to hold you close, hoping you will stay.

Praise for Devices of Body:

“No one is safe / from touch” Joachim Li declares in Devices of Body, a sharp and fruity poetry collection. Between “Lord” and “Lorde”, “Borges” and “Ostara”, the self is multilingual, relational, and experimental. Poetic forms stretch and bend their voices are “willing to trade / clatter for cadence / prudence for a purpose”. Such exchanges trouble pre-established boundaries: “skin” is “but the edge of a living cosmos”. The poet, bubbling with possibilities, welcomes the reader to a tactile cartography of the diaspora.

— Tim Tim Cheng, author of The Tattoo Collector

Ships 5th March 2026

Unity Akashvani’s debut poetry collection gives voice to the body in pieces, in everyday objects, in between the thick layers illness can put between self and community, nature, and future. A glitching, drowsy form that wants to dance, play, and revolt and needs to carry on parenting, working, and making toast. Crisp, concise observations sit alongside the lyrical and expansive.

At breakfast, underwater, on stage – these poems are situated in this heating, racist, cantankerous world. They are part of it and do not feel pressured to accept it, consistently demanding more. Sometimes softly, sometimes vigorously, and often in the feelings they leave behind. Buoyed by struggle and connection the poet navigates the murky and the messy, if only to do it all again tomorrow.

Ships 5th March 2026

From the multi-award-winning author of Banana Girl (2023) and Barefoot Poetess (2025) comes this heartsmasher of a collection. >>glitch<< is Paris Rosemont at her most fierce, fragile, and feral as she navigates the complexities of the human condition.

With playful veneration pushing at the limits of craft, Paris packs a gut-punch with pathos and vibrancy that somersaults across the pages. Content warnings for sex, violence, and profanity—to hedonistic excess. Surely, this is what you’ve come for…

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Judith Beveridge (recipient of Creative Australia’s Lifetime Achievement in Literature award), on Barefoot Poetess:

Paris Rosemont is constantly awake to the complexities and contradictions in our moral and social lives…Her writing sizzles with passion and bravery. She knows how to set fire to the page.

Association for the Study of Australian Literature judges’ report on Banana Girl, shortlisted for the Dame Mary Gilmore Prize 2024:

…a verbal and emotional striptease, as it traces, celebrates and savages different sexual and domestic relationships in a mosaic of verse forms…It’s acrobatic, performative poetry—a high-wire language circus—as well as decorous in its literary invocations…an exciting blend of registers: defiantly revolutionary and deferentially formal.

Chapbook by Orlando Silver (released 2023)

Cover photograph by Tavishe