Calanthe Press are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of The Singing Ship: A Study in Resistances, by Jena Woodhouse, on Sunday 22 February 2026. 

Jena Woodhouse grew up in Queensland, in the Capricorn Coast hinterland, the setting for many of the poems included in The Singing Ship: A Study in Resistances. Her professional occupations— which include library assistant; teacher of English as a Second Language; examiner for international tests of competency in English; book editor; an arts journalist in Athens (Greece)— have all involved language/s, literature/s and writing. She holds tertiary and professional qualifications in these contexts. Her lifelong interests include archaeology, mythology, other cultures and their literatures (especially that of Greece, where she lived and worked for ten years); travel; protection of habitat and the natural world; and writing. Her widely-published poetry and her fiction for children and adults have garnered a number of awards and honours, locally and internationally. The present collection is the thirteenth of her book and chapbook publications.

 Jena’s latest collection will be launched by local poet, Wendy Morgan, at Under the Greenwood Tree Independent Bookshop and Gallery, Tamborine Mountain, on Sunday 22 February at 3pm. Following the launch Jena will be in conversation with Jock Macleod and then signing copies of The Singing Ship: A Study in Resistances. 

Please RSVP to: janenegardner@gmail.com