Contemporary Australian poetry seethes with power and inventiveness. Encompassing old-school English versifiers, experimental performances, and multilingual Indigenous writers, it balances a unique sense of place with global trajectories.
 Villain
Justin Clemens
‘The meeting of Villon and Clemens is one of true minds. These are snaky, savage poems, charged with an electric intelligence.’—Chloe Hooper
Villain invokes the spirit of medieval French poet François Villon, through a bold, contemporary translation of Villon’s famous ballads but also in new work, ranging from the violent and obscene to the lyrical and sublime — sometimes within a single verse.
July, 2009 * Paperback, 96pp * ISBN: 9780980517958 * $19.95
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Beneath Our Armour’s portrait poems cover vast tracts of history, geography, and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic. Intimate, because Bakowski imagines his way into the lives of people as radically disparate as Cyril Connolly, Diego Rivera, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Smart. Epic, because he transports us from Old Macau to Bedford Square London, and even Lower Templestowe, and from pitched battles to civilised dinner parties.
Intense, disturbing and memorable, Beneath Our Armour is an assured and beautifully crafted new book from one of Australia's finest contemporary poets.
August, 2009 * Paperback, 96pp * ISBN: 9780980517941 * $19.95
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