'Home is a profound and tangled experience that reaches far beyond the physical space. This wise beautifully edited selection of poetry and prose lays bare the universal longing to belong. Humorous comforting and devastating Cycles in Light maps the emotional and physical geography of home inviting readers on a word journey through ......
Ian McFarlane considers poetry to be a conversation with the imagination of anyone prepared to listen. His verse is both free and rhythmic spanning its own inclusive path. Ian is an award-winning writer of fiction essays and book reviews. Despite the crippling handicap of anxiety and depression he has used words and ideas in defence of ......
'The majority of poems in The Persistence of History describe Graeme Hetherington's engagement with David Keeling's paintings. As a form of ekphrasis Hetherington's responses to Keeling's art are rarely detailed descriptions of the paintings themselves but rather personal responses to the works evoking memories of his own life's ......
Harnett Lane is Joshua Merten's debut collection of poetry which speaks to a newfound intimacy with a city grotesque and quietly vibrant. This distinctly contemporary portrait of Sydney distils a fragmented relationship with place. The work is strongly rooted in Joshua Merten's expatriate upbringing and is an investigation of an ......
David Horton was born in 1945 and grew up in Perth WA. He graduated from UWA with Zoology Honours in 1965 aged twenty then had a disastrous year at University of Melbourne six good years at University of New England an unhappy year in York England and then twenty-four very mixed years at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ......
'Who would not want to time-travel through the night sky? This is exactly what Carmel Summers offers us in her latest book Lost in the Pleiades. This is much more than a collection of verse - it is a compilation of careful poetic research into a cluster of stars that has fascinated humanity since its ûrst discovery. Summers takes us ......
Vivid memories prompted by hearing a few stray notes playing sent me wandering through my very rich life to renew my love of particular pieces of music and songs. When I started writing poems I recognised that for me music is like ekphrastic poetry. A composer responds to something and in turn there is my response to the composer. From my ......
Roundabout life's journey memories and contemplation that rest on small shelves of my dreams. At times seem mundane yet somehow remain catalogued until in the stutter of nights connect come selected through a sepia of drift. And so a roundabout of dreams interrupt my day demand storage in folds of writing.
Praise from reviewers of Ian Reid's previous books
Rhumbs Woods Hole Mass. (USA) Pourboire Press
'I like best his tough humorous approach and nearly epigrammatic style his intelligence in using words and his width of focus - taking in not just the immediate situation but its context too. That's rare now that so ......
