Chapbooks from Picaro Press
We’re particularly proud of our extensive chapbook line. This form of publication was common from the 16th through the 19th centuries before falling out of favour. It’s ideal for 21st century print-on-demand applications, however. Chapbooks are affordable, and in our view a great deal of fine poetry fits better into a 16 or 32 page chapbook than it would as a mere section in a much longer (and more expensive) volume. Our list covers a wide range of styles, and represents both established and emerging voices. Each volume costs just AUD$5.00, including domestic postage (AUD$2 more for postage overseas. Chapbooks are one more way to distribute fine poetry in an affordable form. You can afford to experiment; order a few today. Our titles are listed below, and can be ordered from our online store. And keep an eye on the list – new titles are coming out all the time. The latest is Luke Simon’s excellent Latin.
Dael Allison’s Shock Aftershock
Yahia Al-Samawy’s Two Banks with No Bridge
Maggie Ball’s Quark Soup
Christiana Bostock’s De Passage de France en Tasmanie
Peter Boyle’s Reading Borges
Cathy Bray’s A Madwoman’s Breakfast — Eat My Bush
Cathy Bray’s The Owl
Cathy Bray’s Poet Tree
The Broadway Prize Anthology, 2001
The Broadway Prize Anthology, 2002
The Broadway Prize Anthology, 2004
The Broadway Prize Anthology, 2006
The Broadway Prize Anthology, 2008
Joanne Burns’ Penelope’s Knees
Ashley Capes’ Orion Tips the Saucepan
Graham Catt’s The Hieronymus Bosch Shopping Mall
Nandi Chinna’s How To Measure Land
Maxine Clarke’s Original Skin
Chris Clifton’s Incompletion
Michael Crane’s Poems from the 29th Floor
Bruce Dawe’s Towards a War
Joel Deane’s £10 Poems
Phillip Ellis’s Symptoms Positive and Negative
Adam Ford’s The Third Fruit Is a Bird
Will Fraser’s Llamaesque
Will Fraser’s The Legend of Eno ‘Che’ Llama
Will Fraser’s The Leema Conspiracy
Will Fraser’s Leema’s Llamas
Danny Gardner’s The Lips Inside
Juan Garrido-Salgado’s Eleven Poems, September 1973
Juan Garrido-Salgado’s Unmoving Navigator
Beverley George’s Drawing God
Kevin Gillam’s Closer to Now
Barry Hill’s The War Sonnets
Richard Hillman’s Timber Country
Venie Holmgren’s Day of the Pardalote
Virginia Jealous’s Things Turned Upside Down
Karen Knight’s Doctor Says
Karen Knight’s My Mother Has Become
Peter Lach-Newinsky’s The Knee Monologues
Andrew Lansdown’s Warrior Monk
Andrew Lansdown’s Consolations
Andrew Lansdown’s Little Matters
Anthony Lawrence’s Magnetic Field
Anthony Lawrence’s Words & Music
Robin Loftus’ A Certain Radiance
Kent MacCarter’s Ribosome Spreadsheet
Peter Macrow’s Thuck
Peter Macrow’s Waiting for the Mountain
Peter Macrow’s Spring Rain
Garth Madsen’s Thirteen Jesuses
Garth Madsen’s The Nude Mirror Exercise
Peter Mitchell’s The Scarlet Moment
Meg Mooney’s The Gap
Liz Murphy’s Walk the Wildly
Jenni Nixon’s Agenda!
Nathanael O’Reilly’s Symptoms of Homesickness
Nathanael O’Reilly’s Sururban Exile: American Poems
Geoff Page’s Long White Cloud & Indian Pixels
Geoff Page’s Bahn Dance
Geoff Page’s Europe 101
Geoff Page’s Cartes postales
Yvonne Petitjean’s Between the Lines
Dorothy Porter’s The Night Parrot
Craig Powell’s Poems for a Marriage
Ron Pretty’s Where the Heart Is
Lyn Reeves’ Beads
David Rowbotham’s Rogue Moons
David Rowbotham’s The Star of Engelmeer
David Rowbotham’s The Cave in the Sky
Max Ryan’s Before the Sky
Andrew Sant, The Bicycle Thief
Thomas Shapcott’s Beginnings and Endings
Thomas Shapcott’s The Book of Hanging Gardens
Luke Simon’s Latin
Richard Tipping’s Notes Towards Employment
Ray Tyndale’s Sappho at Sixty
Rob Walker’s phobiaphobia
John West’s Couchworld
John West’s Walking Amongst Women
Dennis Wild’s Just North of Bewilderment
Steve Woodbury’s Bloodshot
Steve Woodbury’s Dying from Birth
Steve Woodbury’s Northern Lights