Ginninderra Press imprint: 332 books

'Stephen Matthews’s initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature, providing welcome opportunities for both emerging and established writers. Matthews’s dedication and passion are the lifeblood of this unique independent...

First Refuge is a collection of poems marking the twentieth birthday of Ginninderra Press as an independent Australian publisher. In 2006, to celebrate Ginninderra Press’s tenth birthday, fifty poems were selected by Michael Byrne and published in the collection entitled On Common Water. As well...

Jennifer Chrystie’s poems have been published widely in Australia as well as in the UK and US. Her first poetry collection, Polishing the Silver (Ginninderra Press, 2006) was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award.‘This is a thoughtful and diverse collection,...

The Music of the Streets is Michael Robinson's second collection of poetry. His first, The Tiger in the Vineyard, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Poems in this collection (or earlier drafts of them) have appeared in the following print and online journals: Poetry Matters, Studio, Uneven Floor.

Bill Cotter’s poems and stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines throughout Australia. He has won a number of literary awards, including the International Library of Poetry competition, the Maryborough Golden Wattle Festival poetry competition and the Melbourne Shakespeare Society’s...

The latest collection by Mark Willing, a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has had two poetry books and one chapbook published by Ginninderra Press. He is currently working on a verse novel.

The poet Sylvia Plath wrote in 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'let spotted leaves fall as they fall / without ceremony or portent'. If I think of my stories as leaves, then they are leaves from many different trees. Or maybe they are just many different colours. These stories are selected from four collections...

What unites Henri Beyle (who blossoms as Stendhal), the Watcher on the glazed veranda, Leah Lee (wife of Jules Laforgue), the Lady presiding over the Game of Tanka, and Kurt Schwitters (migrating from Dada to Cumbria)? A fastidious gentleness perhaps? Nostalgia certainly. But equally the presence...

This delightful compilation of poems by the South Australian Ginninderra Poets serves to continue the acknowledged presence of poetry as an identified and treasured element of family life at The Cedars. The works selected, along with Kevin Stead’s drawings, capture the unique spirit of this very special place.  Allan Campbell, Curator of The Cedars  

Born in London, Margaret Fensom migrated to Adelaide by steamship in 1947 as a small child. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1967 and with a Masters in Creative Writing in 1999. She lives in Norwood and has two adult daughters and five grandchildren. She is...

A selection of J.K. Murphy’s poetry, previously published in journals in Australia, the UK, the USA and New Zealand. J.K. Muprhy’s previous books are Mottled Shallows (Garravembi Press) and Moving Along (Puncher & Wattman).

Ioana Petrescu is a Romanian-born poet who lives in Adelaide. Her poems have been published in Australia  and Romania, in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. Her first poetry collection, I Say… (Wakefield Press 1999), received enthusiastic praise: ‘Petrescu is a versatile, cosmopolitan...

A rusty old gate, locked or not, is no barrier to Andy’s curiosity. He reckons gates are meant to be walked through or climbed over.  And he will. Life’s rotten anyway – he was suspended from school because of rotten Rezzo and sent to England with his mother, which means he’ll miss a whole...

Play in the Australian Football League is not what it was. At the game’s founding, Australian football was exactly what the AFL’s Latin motto tells us it is today – ‘the game of the people, for the people’. In its formative years it was played and watched by Australians who loved the game...