Out -- Empty Page -- Deception Bay -- A la Recherche -- The Morning of the Holiday -- Sweet Recurrence -- On the Move, 1968 -- Aubade.com -- Windows II -- House and Hearth -- The New Loaf -- A Tavola -- Cockcrow at Campagnatico -- Sagra -- The Double Gift -- At Pennyroyal II -- Waiting for the Moon -- Garden Poems -- Pyrra -- A Magic Craft -- La Belle Helene -- Asleep at the Wheel -- Understood -- Terms of Endearment -- Aquarius III -- Incident on Myrde Street -- Still Life -- In the Presence -- Northern Gothic -- The Memoirs of Casanova -- The View from the Winter Palace -- Old Pop -- Kite -- Late Poem -- A Stone's Throw From Peace Park -- Saturday Morning -- Sunday Afternoon -- Contents note continued: The Prospect of Little Anon on an Inner-city Greensward -- A Knee Bent to Longevity -- A Word to the Wise -- An Emblem -- A Knee Bent to Longevity -- Gravitas -- Small Wonders -- Imperium -- Letting Go -- Donation -- As Living Is -- Incremental -- Before or After.

An Open Book celebrates the power of poetry and reaffirms David Malouf as one of Australia's most celebrated and beloved writers. This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Book are attentive and evocative, vital and beautiful, revisiting and reimagining some of the key themes that have resonated with readers over his impressive career. Like the 'small comfort of light ... as night comes on', Malouf's new poems hold close the precious and tender. Only a few of these poems have ever been published, so most of the collection will be completely new to readers everywhere. An Open Book will be the literary gift of the Christmas and Summer of 2018.