Recent Work Press

Recent Work Press Recent Work Press is a small press imprint based in the ACT, Australia.

We publish poetry, short fiction and non fiction, and other short-form textual experiments. We aim to make all our work available in small, attractive, paperback editions priced to make good work accessible.

📖 Join us at Smith's Alternative for an evening of poetry from two RWP poets! Angela Gardner reads from her new collecti...
13/08/2026

📖 Join us at Smith's Alternative for an evening of poetry from two RWP poets! Angela Gardner reads from her new collection SLIPPAGE, and Owen Bullock shares his haiku sequence THE SCUPPERED LILY. Plus OPEN MIC (3 mins/reader) — sign up on the night, spaces limited! FREE ENTRY 🎤✨

For an immigrant, the relationship with a new country develops over time. In poems that investigate place, belonging, di...
11/08/2026

For an immigrant, the relationship with a new country develops over time. In poems that investigate place, belonging, dislocation, fear, and catastrophe, Slippage charts Angela Gardner’s complex relationship with Australia taking us through wonder and joy, to guilt, misunderstanding, and distance

The haiku and senryĹŤ in The scuppered lily concern what passes and what we treasure; what amuses us and what confounds u...
10/08/2026

The haiku and senryĹŤ in The scuppered lily concern what passes and what we treasure; what amuses us and what confounds us. They record odd, fresh ways of understanding, through the senses and through the imagination.

Hybrid Heaven & Other(ed) Poems is a bold, genre-defying collection that maps the textures of diasporic identity across ...
21/05/2026

Hybrid Heaven & Other(ed) Poems is a bold, genre-defying collection that maps the textures of diasporic identity across continents, cultures, and histories. Moving between Canberra, Leighton Buzzard, Accra, Kingston, and beyond, Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss stitches together fragments of memory, music, migration, and myth into a vivid poetic tapestry.

‘Using seemingly everyday materials and sensations, Nespola hums with its lucid, uncanny tableaux of ambiguous intimacy....
10/05/2026

‘Using seemingly everyday materials and sensations, Nespola hums with its lucid, uncanny tableaux of ambiguous intimacy. These audacious, haunting narratives and lyrics, peppered with ecstatic punctures and folds, know what our bodies bury and hold. They ask, “how much of myself, to save / myself, can I destroy?”. Anders Villani is a wayfinding alchemist.’
Andy Jackson

Recent Work Reading at Smith's Alternative! Hear Adrian Caesar read from his new chapbook Sky Writing and Kate Maxwell s...
16/04/2026

Recent Work Reading at Smith's Alternative! Hear Adrian Caesar read from his new chapbook Sky Writing and Kate Maxwell share poems from her new collection Thistle. Free entry. Don't miss it! ✨

‘There is a searing honesty and daringness, a readiness to confront the inherent complexities of our lives, in Maxwell’s...
03/04/2026

‘There is a searing honesty and daringness, a readiness to confront the inherent complexities of our lives, in Maxwell’s third collection, but it is coupled with a very human tenderness.' - Denise O'Hagan on Thistle, a new collection by Kate Maxwell

'The poems explore the collision of romantic love with the doomed romance of military service and provide an elegiac ref...
28/03/2026

'The poems explore the collision of romantic love with the doomed romance of military service and provide an elegiac refrain for both. Kat Rae’s artistic response to the poems expands and enhances their significance, providing a vivid and thought-provoking complementary visual experience.'

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