This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge it is sheltered by tall silver-top eucalypts with their rough grey bark. Each year, the number of insects, birds reptiles and other animals declines, prey to loss of habitat and hard ......
A daring literary romp through a surreal landscape Copello's latest offering recasts the Biblical prophet Jeremiah in a dystopian world instantly familiar to the reader by its environmental degradation social inequality and political injustice. Just as the ancient Jeremiah inhabited turbulent times and came close to giving up so too does ......
This collection is made up of occasional verse which is to say poems written only occasionally. They make no claim on merit as 'high art' from someone centrally engaged in questions of literary craft except in so far as they try to follow Ezra Pound's nostrum that a poem should be an appropriate mix of thought music and image. The poems arise ......
A lake in the smallest state on the North East coast of America becomes a home of security and love for a couple who has wandered the world. It is where they also experience fear pain and grief before they become parents of a tiny daughter.
They sail on the lake experience the dramatic ......
Flow is a collection of poems inspired by the North-West coast of Tasmania explored during the isolation of the pandemic. These works reflect the region's geography and history-rivers cascading from highland crags to the sea towns growing at estuaries and people who gradually turned their gaze inland.
This collection had its beginnings in the shame, sadness and disbelief that was felt by many after the result of the Voice referendum in 2023. The poems here passionately express those reactions and also unflinchingly explore some of the truths about Australia and its history that if they had been more widely known, might have led to a different ......
The Bungalow began in 1914 as a tin shed in the small colonial outpost of Alice Springs. It was built initially to house Topsy Smith of Arabana descent and her seven children after their Welsh-born father Bill Smith had died. Over the years that followed many more children with Aboriginal mothers and (largely absent) white fathers ......
On a lonely highway in the middle of the night two teenage Aboriginal girls are killed in a crash. Like rag dolls their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out ......
This book describes highlights and the occasional lowlight of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica America South Africa France and England - with a witty mind and a cross-cultural vision of the world. This is a personal memoir delighting in the inconsistencies of ......
