Deceptively simple the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness pleasure and pain enlightenment and illusion love and loneliness. This anthology of tanka reflects the full spectrum of what it means to love whether it be a partner a child a family member friends places or one's pet.
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Dawn Colsey has always loved words and language and graduated BA with Honours in French from Adelaide University. She was a teacher of English and French and student of Latin and Italian over a long teaching career. She taught for twenty years at Walford Anglican School for Girls until an increasing interest in theology led her to achieve BTh at ......
One route to wealth during the 1850s and '60s gold rushes was uncovering a nugget or glittering seam. A much more certain alternative was owning inns on roads to the goldfields. Irish Gold tells the story of two enterprising Irish settlers Jeremiah Lehane and Miles Murphy who adopted the second course and with their families led action-packed ......
Antonia Hildebrand author of The Nine Eleven Handbook explores how the neo-liberal worldview was created and for what social political and economic purposes it came into being. Going back to the Great Depression of the thirties Hildebrand describes an agenda devoted to the creation of an elite which is now so insulated by its power that it is ......
Many of us have envied couples who pack up and set off on the ultimate road trip - but not everyone! Due to a sad history of car travel in her youth the author is less than enthusiastic when her husband suggests they do the same. Things do start to look up however when they sign up to hire a Winnebago the Rolls Royce of motor homes. But once ......
'There is a world beyond the blue sky we only catch glimpses of behind the white clouds high above us. Yet this is a world we cannot and should not ever see too clearly. Drawn from the five different "realms" of the sea the middle country the underworld the forests and the country of old Noriko Tanaka's third collection From the Middle ......
A collection of intriguing stories reflecting the author's view that life is a wonderful exciting sometimes dangerous and often totally boring trip. Rex Jacobs strives to write as honestly and openly as possible but he will never get drawn into discussing the source of inspiration for any particular tale. They are all true in some way he says.
'Words are magic. I have delighted in them all my life - an early memory is of myself on my swing long before I went to school chanting words aloud fitting them together into patterns my mind exploding with images. I have been doing it ever since. And some words are more magic than others. Their sound. The pictures they make. Not words and ......
'In Threading Raindrops Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity the gentle ruefulness of this poet's generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection of clear and lovely poems - the thread on ......
