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PO Box 443, St Kilda, VIC 3182
p. 0425 784 482
e. johnleonardpress[at]gmail[dot]com

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For fuller details on each book go to our catalogue and follow further links.
We have print-friendly sample poems from each book.

On the Press

We are home to some of Australia’s finest new and established poets: twenty three 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.

COMING SOON

Peter Steele: Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry

ISBN: 978-0-9808523-4-9
250pp. pbk
RRP: 32.95

JUST PUBLISHED

Young Poets: An Australian Anothology 

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
76pp. pbk
RRP: 27.95

Dan Disney: And then when the

ISBN: 978-0-9808523-2-5
60pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

Elizabeth Campbell: Error

ISBN:978-09808523-1-8
59 pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

Peter Steele: The Gossip and the Wine

ISBN:978-09808523-0-1
65 pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

LK Holt: Patience, Mutiny

ISBN: 978-09805269-7-4
50 pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

David Musgrave: Phantom Limb

ISBN: 978-09805269-9-8
70 pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

Petra White: The Simplified World

ISBN: 978-09805269-8-1
52 pp. pbk
RRP: 24.95

The poets (thus far) Petra White, Elizabeth Campbell and LK Holt, have a reputation as among the front-rank of a new generation. Claire Gaskin, Paul Magee, Morgan Yasbincek, David Musgrave and Dan Disney into their forties, but fresh in the scene, are receiving very strong notice. Longer-established poets, Julian Croft, Jordie Albiston, John Jenkins, Catherine Bateson and Mark O’Connor, have produced distinguished and acclaimed volumes with us. And there are definitive selected or collected volumes from Aileen Kelly, Peter Steele, Marcella Polain, Jan Owen and Vincent Buckley.

Click here for a booklist of available titles with ISBN, price ect.

For fuller details on each book go to our catalogue and follow further links.

Jacinta Le Plastrier is the publisher, Conor Hutchison is the associate publisher, at JLP.

John Leonard, commissioning editor, taught at Monash and James Cook universities, and is the well-known anthologist of Seven Centuries of Poetry in English (OUP). He has edited 4 landmark Australian anthologies, including the recent full survey The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry, 2009. (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 well into 2013. We regret that, until further notice, submissions can not be considered.