Giramondo acquires Amy Crutchfield’s “Asterion”

Giramondo has acquired world rights to the poetry collection Asterion by Amy Crutchfield.

Asterion is the follow-up to Crutchfield’s debut collection The Cyprian, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2024.

The collection is named for the hybrid figure of the Minotaur. In it, Crutchfield “employs a minimalist technique, using fragmentary and epigrammatic forms as well as mythic retellings, to explore the grounds for human motivation and the often painful truths at the core of our personalities”, according to the publisher.

“Her focus on emblematic moments and details, and their implications, convey a strong sense of love and longing, an appetite for knowledge and a disposition to wonder. Asterion also pays particular attention to the act of naming, probing the words we choose and the ways we use them, and how these choices shape the world we inhabit.”

Crutchfield studied classics and law at the University of Melbourne, and has worked as a teacher and a lawyer. Her poetry has been published in Australia, the UK and Ireland.

Giramondo has also acquired world rights to a new collection by fellow Prime Minister’s Literary Award winner Andy Jackson: Giramondo plans to publish Jackson’s Askew in October 2026.

Giramondo plans to publish Crutchfield’s Asterion in November 2026.

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