Blakwork

WINNER, 2019 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS, JUDITH WRIGHT CALANTHE AWARD FOR A POETRY COLLECTION

WINNER, 2019 MASCARA AVANT-GARDE LITERARY AWARD

SHORTLISTED, 2019 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS, POETRY

SHORTLISTED, 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITING PRIZE

SHORTLISTED, 2020 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL AWARDS FOR LITERATURE

SHORTLISTED, 2019 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, SMALL PUBLISHERS' ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR

LONGLISTED, 2019 AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY (ALS) GOLD MEDAL


A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker’s BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas – identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know.