About us

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.

Pardalote Press publishes contemporary poetry, haiku and haiku related forms, and translations of ancient Chinese poetry with bilingual text.

Pardalote Press will not be accepting proposals until at least 2009.

Manager:

Lyn Reeves, with editorial and design input from gifted freelancers.

Book design:

Tony Fuery, graphic designer for print, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ph: 03 9489 9068

Tony Fuery is the designer of All I Ever Wanted was a Window by John West, Singing of Scented Grass by Ian Johnston, Under the one granite roof: poems for Walt Whitman by Karen Knight, Watersmeet: haiku and Measuring the Depth by Graham Nunn, Oil Slick Sun by Peter Macrow, Watching Pilgrims Watching Me by Jodie Hawthorne, Spinifex by Beverley George, Handfeeding the Crocodile by Gina Mercer and So Much Light by James Charlton.

Designer: Julie Hunt

Julie Hunt designed Interior Despots and Walking the Tideline. Julie is a Tasmanian writer, visual artist and designer who spends her time between Cygnet and Melbourne. Her children's books include The Woman Who Knitted the World (1984), The Answerman (Hyland House, 1991), and Away! Away! (Roland Harvey Books, 2000). Her poetry is represented in Lozenge (Cornford Press, 1991) and MossHunt (chapbook, 1995) and has been published in many literary journals. Julie has designed for the Australian Women's Book Review, Coppertales (University of Southern Queensland) and Spinifex Press. Her work with visual artists includes the exhibition Will the Real Australia Please Stand Up? (1996) curated by Christl Berg. She is currently the recipient of a grant from The Australia Council to illustrate her next children's picture book.

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