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Contact details PO Box 443, St Kilda, VIC 3182 Inbooks is our distributor. Booksellers and libraries, please place your orders with them. p. (02) 9986 7082 Visit our booklist for short details of each book including titles with ISBN, price etc.
The number of sample poems here from the books is deliberately generous. One normal way of being enticed by a poetry book is to browse it in a bookshop; but unfortunately the number of contemporary Australian poetry titles in many bookshops is a little meagre. These samples are a substitute for such browsing.
We are home to some of Australia’s finest new and established poets: twentyseven single-author titles and one anthology have appeared since August 2006 to considerable acclaim. We publish only what we believe to be of outstanding quality. The books are beautiful to look at and to open. They radically vary in poetic styles but all beguile into reading at a speaking pace, and to returning.
MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED Graeme Miles: Recurrence ISBN: 978-0-9808523-7-0
Robert Gray: Cumulus: Collected Poems ISBN: 978-0-9808523-5-6
Brook Emery: Collusion ISBN: 978-0-9808523-6-3 Peter Steele: Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry ISBN: 978-0-9808523-4-9
The poets are: Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Sarah Holland-Batt, LK Holt, Graeme Miles, Simon West and Petra White. ISBN: 978-0-9808523-3-2
ISBN: 978-0-9808523-2-5
Elizabeth Campbell: Error ISBN:978-09808523-1-8 ISBN:978-09808523-0-1
David Musgrave: Phantom Limb ISBN: 978-09805269-9-8
ISBN: 978-09805269-7-4
ISBN: 978-09805269-8-1
On the poets (thus far): Petra White, Elizabeth Campbell, LK Holt and Graeme Miles have a reputation as among the front-rank of a new generation. Claire Gaskin, Paul Magee, Morgan Yasbincek, David Musgrave and Dan Disney - also fresh in the scene, into their forties - are receiving very strong notice. Longer-established poets, Julian Croft, Jordie Albiston, John Jenkins, Catherine Bateson, Mark O’Connor and Brook Emery have produced distinguished and acclaimed volumes with us. And there are definitive selected or collected volumes from Aileen Kelly, Jan Owen, Peter Steele, Marcella Polain, Vincent Buckley and Robert Gray. Visit our booklist for short details of each book including titles with ISBN, price etc. For fuller details on each book, go to our catalogue and follow further links. This website has a generous number of sample poems from each book.
Jacinta Le Plastrier is the publisher at JLP. Conor Hutchison is associate publisher. John Leonard is commissioning editor. He taught at Monash and James Cook universities, and is the well-known anthologist of Seven Centuries of Poetry in English (OUP). He has also edited 5 landmark Australian anthologies, including the recent full survey, The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry, 2009, and Young Poets: An Australian Anthology, 2011. (Several John Leonards inhabit the literary globe. Note that ours is not a poet, and has no other website)
Submissions for Publication John Leonard Press now has titles commissioned for publication until the end of 2015. We regret that, until further notice, submissions can not be considered.
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