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Register for Poetry Zoom March 19 - Sarah Rice featured reader
Sarah Rice: Alight on all things precious - register for launches
Sarah Rice: Alight on all things precious - register for launches
Alight on all things precious – PREPUB OFFER - Liquid Amber Press
Alight on all things precious – PREPUB OFFER - Liquid Amber Press
Buy Poetry of Flight Anthology
Buy Poetry of Flight Anthology
The 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize invited poets to respond to the broad topic of ‘flight’ – and to take it in whatever direction they wished. Perhaps being in flight from something, or towards new places, experiences or elements. Perhaps knowing the ecstatic flight of emotions or the spirit, or an engagement with the feathered world of what inhabits air and branch… The astounding stylistic and thematic range of poems in this Longlist do what powerful art always does – they offer the reader the insights, connection and joy which enable us to live our lives for the better. This anthology has the 51 poems of the Longlist, including the winners. Available as Downloadable PDF or Softcover book
EA Gleeson's The Deepest Thing
EA Gleeson's The Deepest Thing
Writing about a disabled family member too often succumbs to clichés of tragedy or overcoming, or a presumptuous appropriation of their voice. The Deepest Thing is something else entirely. These translucent, searching poems live in the real world. With richly evocative imagery, they traverse decades of institutional and social prejudice to honour the improvised “dance” of a farming family and “the things that matter most” to the poet’s sister. Simply beautiful. - Andy Jackson Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
The Heart of the Advocate by Angela Costi
The Heart of the Advocate by Angela Costi
Angela Costi’s new collection The Heart of the Advocate is fierce, compassionate, and principled. In these poems, Costi scrutinises childhood memories and legal history, revealing the rift between law and justice. These poems are alive with detail, and intimate, but also alert to intersecting kinds of violence: sexist, racist, class-based, legalistic and bureaucratic. This is an exemplar of poetic advocacy. Lisa Gorton Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
Liquid Amber Call for Manuscripts for 2026
Liquid Amber Call for Manuscripts for 2026
2025 Poetry of Flight WINNERS ANNOUNCED
2025 Poetry of Flight WINNERS ANNOUNCED
So pleased to announce the winners of the Liquid Amber 2025 Poetry Prize.
2025 Shortlist & Emerging Poet Prize Winners announced - Liquid Amber Press
2025 Shortlist & Emerging Poet Prize Winners announced - Liquid Amber Press
LONGLIST ANNOUNCED! Liquid Amber Poetry of Flight Prize
LONGLIST ANNOUNCED! Liquid Amber Poetry of Flight Prize
We are excited to announce the 51 poems in the 2025 Poetry Prize Longlist
Intents | Anne Elvey
Intents | Anne Elvey
In language forged from stone and song, Intents explores the un-easy work of living and creating as settlers in the face of on-going colonisation. A questing, unflinching and profoundly attentive study in compassion, in the sense of its Latin roots com- (together), + pati (suffering). Between these fine-cut lines, Anne Elvey creates a space to suffer together, to try and fail and try again, to cultivate hope. - Es Foong Delicate and attuned to the numinous in the everyday, Intents traces the vibrational and unsayable across exchanges human and more-than-human in our interconnected world. With the humility characteristic of Elvey's work, these poems weave a moving ethics of care, a chapel of attention and interbeing utterly necessary for our times. - Willo Drummond Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
Anne Kellas Ways to Say Goodbye | Liquid Amber Press
Anne Kellas Ways to Say Goodbye | Liquid Amber Press
Following her own breath: Jennifer Harrison launches ‘Remarkable as Breathing’ by Rose Lucas
Following her own breath: Jennifer Harrison launches ‘Remarkable as Breathing’ by Rose Lucas
One of the great gifts of these poems is Lucas’ expertise in making the familiar (such as a zoom meeting, a walk on the beach, seeing whales, a father’s belongings, an exploration of ‘the mind’s ca…
Rose Lucas's new book Remarkable as Breathing - available here
Rose Lucas's new book Remarkable as Breathing - available here
Stephanie Powell 'Invisible Wasp' - available now
Stephanie Powell 'Invisible Wasp' - available now
In Invisible Wasp, Stephanie Powell explores the business of observing and responding to the range of life’s experiences, from anxious struggle to deep connection. Through cycles of desire and disappointment and introspection, these exciting and insightful poems build to the promise of something new. Reading Invisible Wasp is like spending time with your cool friend who helps you navigate life’s strangeness. Powell creates a slippery intimacy, a kind of everyday erotic, with extraordinary skill. Poems hover in the interstices between body and world, reminding us of what is both powerfully animal and achingly fragile about our being. I keep returning to this shimmering collection and every time I find something new. Emilie Collyer Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
Nathan Curnow 'A Hill to Die On’ – launched and available| Liquid Amber Press
Nathan Curnow 'A Hill to Die On’ – launched and available| Liquid Amber Press
Dominique Hecq's Volte Face - available here
Dominique Hecq's Volte Face - available here
Jenny Pollak's new book Clarion - available here
Jenny Pollak's new book Clarion - available here
Clarion is an eco-poetic suite of words and images written and created by Australian artist and poet Jenny Pollak. It focuses on two extreme weather events since 2020 that decimated a small forest of casuarinas on the western foreshores of Pittwater, just north of Sydney. The poetry speaks in the voice of a woman as she negotiates her relationship with a landscape in crisis. The powerful spectre of the sea as a beautiful and destructive principle sits quietly behind the poems as the instrument of change. This magnificent collection of images and poems… is a love song, composed in syllables of sand, salt and sticks. …. Jenny Pollak reminds us that Country is still savage and strong, capable of great compassion. She reminds us that a relationship with Country is still vital and possible. Judith Nangala-Crispin Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
Cathy Altmann's Stars like Salt - available here
Cathy Altmann's Stars like Salt - available here
Cathy Altmann’s mastery of voice, and of the tumblingly fluid potential of the short free-verse line bring to us a sumptuous poetry in the simplest language. These poems of spider webs, sand grains, tidelines, small fish by a pier, trees that sing are truly, in her sure hands, ‘ziplines of joy’. Kevin Brophy Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book
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