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Five Islands Press was established in 1986 and is dedicated to the publication of fine Australian poetry. A new chapter in the history of FIP is now under way with a publishing team composed of: Kevin Brophy, Lyn Hatherly, Katia Ariel, Eddie Paterson and Michael McKay plus our graphic designer, Libby Austen.
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Five Islands Press were well represented at The Stella Prize last night… Our managing co-editor Kevin Brophy headed along to support Lisa Jacobson. 'The...Read more To settle any queries about the availability of ‘The Sunlit Zone’… Five Islands Press are proud to announce that is available in both hardcopy ($2...
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Featured Authors
Toby Davidson
Toby Davidson was born in Perth in 1977 and grew up in the beachside suburb of Cottesloe. In 2002 he moved to Sydney where he co-founded the Citizens of Language readings at Sydney University. After six years in Melbourne and Warrnambool, he returned to Sydney as a lecturer in Australian literature at Macquarie University, editing Francis Webb Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011) and completing a critical study ...
Mal McKimmie
Mal McKimmie was born in Perth, Western Australia and lives in Melbourne. Positions he has been employed in include survey hand, deckhand, kitchen hand, vineyard labourer, fruit picker, poetry tutor and part-time ranger working with wild dolphines and visitors at an eco-tourist resort. He has also worked in welfare, with people labelled as having a 'disability' and people diagnosed as having a 'mental illness'. His poems have been publi...
Lisa Jacobson
Lisa Jacobson's The Sunlit Zone was short-listed for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. An earlier poetry collection, Hair & Skin & Teeth, was published by Five Islands Press in 1995 and short-listed for the National Book Council Awards. She has been awarded the 2011 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, The HQ/Harper Collins Short Story Prize, a Marten Bequest Travellin...
Michael Sharkey
Michael Sharkey has worked in publishing and in the public service, and has taught science and mathematics in high schools, and literature, writing, and rhetorical analysis in several universities in Australia, New Zealand, China and Europe. He has edited an anthology of Australian humour and contributed biographical essays, books reviews and articles on literary topics to many publications. He was Chairman of the New England Writers Ce...
Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is a Goan-Anglo-Indian poet. Born in Kenya in 1969 she attended primary school in London before migrating to Australia. She lives in Sydney, where she graduated in Medicine and the Humanities. She has been awarded grants from the Australia Council, the Copyright Agency Limited, a mentorship from the Australian Society of Authors and in 2011 a fellowship at Hawthornden Castle. She was highly commended in the Blake Poetry ...
Libby Hart
Libby Hart's first collection of poetry, Fresh News from the Arctic received the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize. She is a recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan, Ireland and a DJ O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship at The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Her poem, 'The Briefcase Phenomenon' was chosen for the inaugural...
Claire Potter
Claire Potter was born in Perth and educated at the Universities of Western Australia, New South Wales and Paris where, under the auspices of a French Embassy Scholarship, she wrote her Masters thesis on the setting in psychoanalysis and tragedy. In 2006, she received an Australian Young Poet's Fellowship and was mentored by Kevin Hart. She spent five years teaching and studying in Paris and now lives in London. Swallow is her first ful...