Her six authored book publications are: a collection of short stories, The Double (Text, 2013);[3] a book of literary criticism, Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (Peter Lang, 2007); and four collections of poems, Trigger Warning (UQP, 2021),[4] The End of the World (Giramondo, 2014),[5] Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009)[6] and Narcissism (Whitmore Press, 2005).
Takolander's words have also featured on public artworks, including at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, and on the Bronze Stories plaques and walking trails app in Geelong.
Here, as in Baudelaire, beauty is inextricably linked with evil: it’s 'the dark italics', as Wallace Stevens phrased it, that compels the poetic imagination in these poems … Don’t be surprised if they take up residence in your body after reading them … it’s just that kind of book."
Geordie Williamson, the chief literary critic at The Australian, has written of The Double: "Takolander, though immured in the same darkling stuff as Plath, always remains in command.
The results are fiercely intelligent and idiosyncratic, sometimes shot through with black humour, sometimes pressing down on the reader with the full weight of human horror...Individually, Takolander's stories can be bleak.