Pardalote Press
Pardalote Press is an independent publisher specialising in small print runs of quality writing and design.
Pardalote is committed to publishing poetry, especially poetry with a Tasmanian connection, and to making a range of contemporary poetic voices available in print to a national and local marketplace.
'arguably the finest publisher today of quality, contemporary Tasmanian literature' - Ralph Wessman, Famous Reporter
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Hosted titles
Pardalote press hosts titles from other publishing companies including Bumble-Bee Books. Bumble-Bee Books specialises in writing by Tasmanian women.
Save $33.50 on haiku!
Short and evocative, haiku poems are enjoyed by everyone. Buy our Special Pack of six and give them to friends during the gift season!
A showcase of some of the best contemporary Australian haiku by Beverley George, (President, HaikuOz), Graham Nunn (Secretary HaikuOz) and Lyn Reeves (Vice-President HaikuOz) - as well as the Hobart-based Watersmeet haiku group.
Regular price $108.50
Haiku Special Pack $75.00
Featured titles
So Much Light >>
James Charlton's poetry is both visionary and anchored in the dailiness of life. He networks the finite and the infinite, enhancing our understanding and respect for both. - Bruce Dawe
News
On 26 March, Radio National's Book Show featured a review by Geoff Page of James Charlton's So Much Light. You can read the transcript here.
Karen Knight, author of Under the One Granite Roof: poems for Walt Whitman, has won The Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript, awarded by Arts ACT. Pardalote Press is delighted to announce that it will publish this collection, Postcards from the Asylum, later this year.
Haiku poets, Beverley George, Peter Macrow, Graham Nunn, Doris Reeve and Lyn Reeves will feature in a two-part edition of Poetica on ABC's Radio National in June. For a great deal on the haiku books featuring these poets see our Special Haiku Savings.
The poets of Watersmeet are taking part in a collaboration with Hunter Island Press printmakers. The resulting illustrated haiku, Breath Marks, will be on display at Rosny Library, Bligh Street, Rosny Park, during Tasmanian Living Writers' Week from 11th - 23rd August 2008.
If you are in Melbourne you can purchase Pardalote Press books from Collected Works, Level 1, Nicholas Building 37 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000, Australia Telephone (613+) 9654 8873, email collectedworks@lycos.com, web http://www.collectedworks-poetryideas.blogspot.com/
New from Pardalote Authors:
Peter Macrow (Oil Slick Sun) has a new chapbook, Thuck, available from Picaro Press. Email jandr@hunterlink.net.au.
Gina Mercer and Lyn Reeves are two of four poets featured in the anthology Seasoned with Honey which won the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers national award for an anthology by a writing group. The collection, which also includes sections by Hobart poets Anne Collins and Mary Jenkins, will be launched at Hobart Bookshop on 8th May and is one of Pardalote Press's hosted titles. Walleah Press will also publish a chapbook by Lyn Reeves, The Ink Brushed Distance, also available as a hosted title on this site.
Also, check out the hosted titles for a wonderful collection from Esther Ottaway - Blood Universe.
Forthcoming from Pardalote Press:
For all those who loved Singing of Scented Grass: verses from the Chinese, a new book of translations of ancient Chinese poetry by Ian Johnston is in progress. Waiting for the Owl has an expected release date of early 2009. Its production is assisted by a grant from Arts Tasmania.