Upswell Publishing 2022 announces Day and Tedeschi

Terry-ann White started Upswell Publishing, based in Perth, as a not-for-profit company in December 2020.

Her mission: We publish writers who need to be read; who turn the world upside-down with their insight. Knowing the surge of joy that comes out of a book, we create beautiful objects that will still be in the cultural imagination 100 years on.

All of my working life has been arranged around books and ideas: as a bookseller, writer, publisher and organiser of public events involving literature and writing. After 14 years of shaping a list as publisher at UWA Publishing, I am delighted to announce Upswell.

Upswell Publishing has expanded from three titles in 2021 to the 2022 catalogue including two of our Deakin alumni:

Fugitive, Simon Tedeschi’s first book, straddles the borders of
poetry and prose, fiction and fact, trauma and testimony, filled with what Russian poet Konstantin Balmont called the fickle play of rainbows. (Release date May 2022)

Known primarily as a concert pianist, SIMON TEDESCHI has written for publications across Australia. When neither writing nor practising, he reads books and drinks coffee. He and his wife, the painter Loribelle Spirovski, live in Sydney, Australia with their cat. Simon is a current Deakin MA student. Fugitive is based on his Masters thesis.

Gregory Day’s Words Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place sings with the heightened sense of place and natural world literacy that has long been key to Day’s work. Listening out always for the lost mythologies and languages of place, he tunes his attention to key motifs of ground and sky, ocean and owl, moth and river, while reading and celebrating the work of the resurgent global nature writing movement that has grown up since the publication of his first novel, The Patron Saint of Eels, in 2005. (Release date June 2022)

GREGORY DAY is a novelist, poet and composer from the Eastern Otways region of southwest Victoria, Australia. He has published five novels to date, to much acclaim, and was awarded the Nature Conservancy Australia 2021 Nature Writing Prize for The Watergaw, an essay contained in this volume. Gregory is a Deakin PhD alumnus, and recently presented at the Creative | Critical Symposium, a roundtable event for Deakin’s Writing and Community research group.

Terry-ann White invites subscriptions – where you can receive books hot off the press with a letter from Terry-ann describing why she published the book, and a letter containing insights from the author. See details on the website:  https://upswellpublishing.com/

Upswell operates in the city of Perth, on ancient country of the Whadjuk people
of the Noongar nation who remain the spiritual and cultural custodians.
We acknowledge their continuing connection to country and express gratitude
to elders past and present.