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Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. "Red-Letter Series" [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan DisneyThuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration),20 pp; 3. Stephen EdgarFrom Midnight to Dawn, 24 pp; 4. Lisa GortonMirror Landscape, 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by majoraward-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers,created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien andPeranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry,the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have beenshortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Artsin Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSWPremier?s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Award for Poetry, and twice forthe Prime Minister?s Literary Award. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigiousBR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Her first collection, Burning Rice, is onthe New South Wales English syllabus in Australia as a prescribed text for theHigher School Certificate from 2019, the first ever collection of poems by anAsian-Australian poet to be on the list. Dan Disney Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections includeand then whenthe, published by John Leonard Press in 2011, andeither, Orpheus, published byUWA Publishing in 2016. His latest books include New Directions in ContemporaryAustralian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall; Palgrave) andaccelerations &inertias(Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright CalantheAward and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have wonnumerous prizes, including, most recently, the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.Disney teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul. Stephen Edgar Sydney-based poet Stephen Edgar has been described by Clive James as standingout ?among recent Australian poets for the perfection of his craft.? He is the author of numerous collections, including Queuing for the Mudd Club (1985), Ancient Music(1988), Corrupted Treasures (1995), Where the Trees Were (1999), Lost in the Foreground (2003), Other Summers (2006), History of the Day (2009), Exhibits ofthe Sun (2014), Transparencies(2017), and Ghosts of Paradise(2023); and hispoetry has received many awards: the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Grace LevenPrize for Poetry, the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005, thePhilip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature, and he has twice receivedthe William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the PrimeMinister?s Literary Award for his collection The Strangest Place: New and SelectedPoems. Lisa Gorton Lisa Gorton is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, and critic, and a former PoetryEditor ofAustralian Book Review. She studied at the Universities of Melbourne andOxford. A Rhodes Scholar, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature anda Doctorate on John Donne at Oxford University, and was awarded the John DonneSociety Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. She has publishedfour poetry collections, all fromGiramondo, and a novel,TheLifeofHouses(2015).Her awards include the Victorian Premiers Prize for Poetry,the Vincent BuckleyPoetry Prize,the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal,the Prime Minister?s Award forFiction, the NSW Premiers People?s Choice Award for Fiction, and theWesleyMichel Wright Prize for Poetry. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Australia BRWhiting residency in Rome to complete the poems in Mirror / Landscape.