In this collection of poetry the author explores the many facets of what it means to live life through the lens of schizophrenia. And yet it is more than that. Black humour irreverent mayhem and cheerful tragedy all vie for the right to co-exist within unreality’s dark prism. Where Words Go When They Die sways from surreal ......
This collection evokes situations confronting ordinary people in their ordinary lives. The author creates images of loss love hatred and warmth of particular characters in particular places as far apart as Scotland and Australia. Against a background haunted by Destiny people are led or pushed by emotions into a stream of experiences. In ......
Bella was only seventeen when her mother Elie died. Jack and Katie were even younger. Each dealt with the loss in different ways: Bella became the surrogate mother the responsible one; Katie the arty rebellious eternal wild child; and Jack never settled changing jobs and girlfriends looking for the next adventure. When Bella discovers ......
This collection of whimsical poems tells what it was like to be the ninth child in a poor Irish Catholic family in the Queensland of the 1950s. It presents vignettes of the child’s attempts to make sense of the world she encounters through the large and loving family at home the not-so-loving nuns at school through neighbours and ......
Dissent can be a good thing unless you are killed for it. We live in a world of social fissuring and disruption where families and nations are stressed by the contexts we live in. Globally we are witnessing the biggest population movement ever known. This is interlinked with the causes and effects of massive changes in climate which is ......
‘Passant’s words are marching songs. They speak for the dispossessed across Terra Nullius out of the factories through wars and generations to the ruins of Aleppo. Their rhythm is that of resistance against the state against prejudice but for our common humanity. While at times necessarily bleak in outlook – “we ......
A variety of ambiguous tales both dark and quirky. Conflicts between mothers and daughters brandy drinkers in search of an ideal an escape from the mundane. Males with inflated egos to docile partners who ferment with insidious plans of their own. Curtain twitches village gossip betrayal and those who relish leading ......
wild /waild/ adj. 1. living in a state of nature as animals that have not been tamed or domesticated. 2. growing or produced without cultivation or the care of humans as plants flowers fruit honey etc… 3. uncultivated uninhabited or waste as land. ......
When Dalley a convict's son who became the first Australian Privy Councillor died in 1888 The Bulletin described him as 'a man of many splendours both of intellect and heart' and 'in many respects the most notable man Sydney has given birth to'. Nine years later some 10 000 people gathered in Hyde Park for the ......
