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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.

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.

15/07/2025

A moving and high quality night of poetry. Featuring Moya Pacey and Brendan Ryan, supported by a rich and varied open mic. Nice.

10/07/2025

Poetry lovers, don’t miss this! 🎤 Join us at Smith’s Alternative for a night of powerful verse with RWP poets Brendan Ryan and Moya Pacey. Brendan will share work from his latest collection What It Feels Like, and Moya brings decades of poetic insight and passion for women’s voices. Plus, an open mic—3 mins per reader, sign-ups on the night. Free entry. Come early, stay inspired. ✍️📚

13/06/2025

'What if Feels Like' brings together poems published over the past twenty-five years from Brendan Ryan’s seven poetry collections, as well as introducing thirty new poems. This is a poetry of empathy and longing, elegies and portraits written with a gentle irony. 'What it Feels Like' is an essential contribution to ‘the tradition of hard pastoral’ in contemporary Australian poetry.

12/06/2025

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07/06/2025

James Lucas’ second collection suggests that the incongruous may be our best avenue to insight. These meticulously crafted poems reveal again and again that neither our pasts nor our present are as we’ve been told.

15/05/2025

Join us on 19 May to hear from two new collections by Ross Donlon and James lucas

02/05/2025

Temporal, spiritual, elemental: this book is Blakean ... The poems create a ‘path made by words’ sometimes spoken in the voice of a child, sometimes the voice of a man, that attempt to come to terms with life’s voyage over the surface tension of water, that separates today from yesterday and the living from the dead. -Joel Deane

09/04/2025

‘The searing ‘Barkindji’ voice reminds us that so much remains unreconciled in the depravity of colonialism-crimson brush strokes on tarnished Dreaming.’--Samuel Wagan Watson

04/04/2025

In David Musgrave's new collection, the kool-aid of The Kool-Aid Dispenser stands for any number of things: grief, enduring institutionalized foolery, either the nonsense of handed-down beliefs, or their denial. And, backwards, it is about the power of language to discover and surprise us. The Kool-Aid Dispenser contains poems of loss, balanced by many poems that celebrate renewal and hope.

13/06/2024

‘In 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.’ Rachael Mead writes beautifully about nature, about ‘the earth cracking beneath my weight.’ She also has pointed and poignant things to say about people, places and human sensibilities. Emerson would approve.’
Brook Emery

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PO BOX 808, Mitchell
Canberra, ACT
2911

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