M. T. C. Cronin

• Zoetrope: we see us moving (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1995) • the world beyond the fig (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1998, shortlisted CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1999) • Everything Holy (Balcones International Press, Temple, USA, 1998, shortlisted Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1997; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 1999; shortlisted Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, Qld Premier's Literary Awards 1999; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2000; commended Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 1999) (review) • Mischief-Birds (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 1999) • Bestseller (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2002; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2002) • Talking to Neruda's Questions (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, online at www.shearsman.com • My Lover's Back (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2002, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2004) • The Confetti Stone and other poems (Picaro Press, Warner's Bay, Australia, 2002) ISSN 1444-8424 • beautiful, unfinished ~ PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM (Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2003, Book of the Month, Shearsman Books, UK, August 2003; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004) • 1-100 (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2004, shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2005; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2005; winner CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2005; winner Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2006) excerpts 1-13, 88-100 • The Flower, the Thing (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2006, shortlisted WARM Literary Awards Book of the Year 2007) • Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God (Soi 3, Chiang Mai/Brisbane, Australia/Thailand, 2007) • Notebook of Signs (& 3 Other Small Books) (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2007) • How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body? (The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli) (co-written with Peter Boyle, Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK, 2008) • Irrigations (of the Human Heart) ~ Fictional Essays on the Poetics of Living, Art & Love (Ravenna Press, Edmonds, USA, 200) • Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve ~ micro-essays on judgement & justice (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2009, shortlisted Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2010) • The World Last Night [metaphors for death] (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2012, highly commended, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2013) • in possession of loss (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2014) • The Law of Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2015) • Causal ~ speaking the future (Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA, 2018) • Sometimes the Soul (The Sophia Lexicon Press, Maleny, Australia, 2019) • God is Waiting in the World's Yard (Puncher & Wattmann, Newcastle, Australia, 2019) • What We Have Except When We are Lost (co-written with Maria Zajkowski, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA, 2020) • A Ticket to Trilce (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2021) • Who Was By Alex Quel (co-written with Peter Boyle, Puncher & Wattmann, Newcastle, Australia, 2022)

• Respondiendo a las Preguntas de Neruda in Spanish and English, trans. Juan Garrido Salgado (Safo, Santiago, Chile, 2004) • Controcanto al Libro Delle Domande di Neruda in Italian and English, trans. Hans Kitzmuller (Braitan, Brazzano, Italy, 2005) • The Ridiculous Shape of Longing: New and Selected Poems in English and Macedonian, trans. Igor Isakovski (Blesok, Skopje, Macedonia, 2005)

• Notebook of signs *

• at Caesura • 4 poems at softblow.org • 4 poems at P76 Magazine Issue 6 • MTC Cronin at Poetry International Web • 2 Poems • 8 poems at Jack Magazine • Review by John Bennett • Launch speech by Peter Boyle for The Law of Poetry in Rochford Street Review • Interview with MTC Cronin on Regime Books' Australian Poetry Podcast