A brand new poetry collection from queer Australian poet A. E. Bratchford to be released May 2026.A Whole New Can of Worms delves into the complexities of life, love, gender, grief, and anger in a world that continually overwhelms. This collection is thought provoking and emotional, and will keep you thinking well hatter the last word is read.

Beatrice, a lonely traveller, floats through unknown territory in space. Trapped in a survival pod, she has no clue how she ended up there and little memory of much else. All the while, she is haunted by the ghost of someone she feels she should know.On the other side of the galaxy, a crew of space marauders have almost given up hope of finding the missing member of their crew. One lost in an accident that nearly cost the team more than just their friend.That being said,

Go back in time through the lives of the crew of the Starship L.O.L.A before they became the crew you know.Before She Forgot includes verse from the perspective of each member of the crew as moments their life lead them towards becoming a member of Tahlia's crew. Read verses of love, loyalty, heartbreak, and eventually that of found family and home.A home that is torn through by the near loss of life of a crew member - something that changes their life, and the lives of the...

Every day we make new connections, whether it is intentional or not. It is human nature to seek out those connections and nurture them.'From Me to You' features 14 wonderful authors who have all contributed a short story or poem to the theme of connections.Sink into intricate worlds and the lives of characters who are reaching out, just trying to find their people.

Hearts, Cages, and other Locked Boxes is a collection of poems exploring the self, the mind, queerness, and love.These themes are explored through carefully chosen poems into different sections: The Heart, The cage, The Lock, and The Key.

"Tell me the storyabout how the Sunloved the Moon so much,she died every nightto let her breathe."'With Love, the Stars' is a collection of queer short stories and poems within the genres of romance and sci-fi/fantasy.Each piece has been lovingly crafted by two authors separately, but then woven together into the words within. A cup of dreams, a few litres of emotion, and of course, a gallon of love ha...

This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts.Grounded in socio-visual thinking, Vision and ...

This book providesauser-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the ‘relational image’: the urban, social media, and the aerial.Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and s...

This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field. It explores various facets of the relationship between verticality and visibility, offering insights that deepen the understanding of this dynamic dyad.This volume brings the sky and air into the view of visual sociology and argues that there is more to the sky than phenomenological and geopolitical dimensions. The chapters use the...