Recent Work Press

18/11/2025

An unforgettable evening as Recent Work Press celebrated its 10th birthday. Very grateful to these poets, to all that came along, and to everyone who has been part of the journey over the last decade.

Photos: Sarah St Vincent Welch

13/11/2025

It's been 10 years of Recent Work Press and we're celebrating with a reading featuring a swag of poets who we've published over the last 10 years. Hope to see you there.

16/10/2025

Join us at Smith’s Alternative for a powerful night of poetry with Paul Munden and K A Nelson. Paul will read from his latest collection, Peckinpah Suite, while K A Nelson shares her poetry exploring place, identity, and experience. A rich evening of poetic insight and connection.

29/09/2025

Fancy night at the Prime Minister's Literary Awards

14/09/2025

‘In the thirteen years since his Collected Poems, Paolo Totaro has written as much poetry as he did in the sixty preceding years. This new book collates that remarkable yield. Totaro’s wit, the breadth of his intellectual interests and the variety of his expressive modes are undiminished. The poetry insists on life for life’s sake.’
From the Introduction by Theodore Ell

06/09/2025

In this volume of prose poetry, five poets approach grief in different ways; the emotion sometimes recognisable, sometimes disguised. Their works grieve for those who are gone while they traverse the idea of the abiding presence of loss. If a melancholy sense of absence is occasionally registered in these poems, there is humour too. And, more generally, there are many salutary expressions of grief-inflected yet powerfully present feelings of love and desire.

19/08/2025

Another quality Recent Work Reading. Thanks Jacqui Malins and Maggie Shapley.

14/08/2025

Join us at Smith’s Alternative for an inspiring evening of poetry with RWP poets Jacqui Malins and Maggie Shapley. They’ll be reading from their compelling new collections, GERT and Fruits of Exile — an event celebrating creativity, language, and the power of poetic storytelling. Don’t miss it!

12/08/2025

10/08/2025

Each poem in Maggie Shapley's Fruits of Exile is a window into moments of loss, longing, and quiet triumph—whether in the ache of distance, the rituals of domesticity, or the search for belonging. With lyrical clarity and deep empathy, Shapley’s collection invites readers to reflect on what it means to leave, to stay, and to find home in unexpected places.

31/07/2025

In 1924 near Queenstown, Tasmania, a boy holds a gun with a black cockatoo perched on it, while a young woman stands beside him, holding two dead cockatoos. Artist and poet Jacqui Malins was captivated by this image. GERT is her non-fiction narrative poetry collection exploring the intertwined stories of this woman and the place she lived—a vivid journey through history, identity, and landscape.