'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However there may be another aspect to Christmas. Another Christmas story would be in the ......
Light a fire of fear. A young woman stalked and raped by a police officer in a country town. Light a fire of anger. A journalist incensed by injustice on a journey to hunt down a fugitive. Light a fire of desire. One woman's quest to reconnect with a flame from the past. INCANDESCENCE.
'Do not expect gentle rambles through the countryside. Beatriz Copello takes us on rough treks - through broken worlds past "sleepwalkers trained to kill" "banquets of horror / tablecloth tinted in blood" "dolphins wrapped in plastic bags" "bats without trees" - challenging us to read briskly urgently and breathe often. We are rewarded ......
Frances Daggar Roberts is an Australian poet who grew up in a remote area where she began to write poetry to capture the love she felt for plants animals and landscape. She lives with her partner in a bushland setting close to Sydney and now focuses on her art and poetry having retired from her psychology work at the end of 2022. As a ......
Richard Stanton has lived a long life and has done all the stuff you would expect him to do in that time and now he's tired so he is going to have a lie down. He still feels relevant because his adult daughter calls him to ask questions about her car's brakes and other important things. He has written about politics media widowhood ......
Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I've been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - ......
Glass Kangaroo will take you across Australia through time and places sometimes from within the persona of a kangaroo. This is accessible poetry with a magical touch. Joe Pascoe lives in Ivanhoe near Melbourne. In this collection he is seeking to present a large metaphor for life and adventures in Australia both new and ......
'This collection blends candid and personal worlds short stories allegories and vignettes. The warmth of "Knight in Shining Chain Mail" moves to the chilling short story "Undertow" with its secrets to heart-rending "The Broken Windmill". Decima does not shy away from reality with all its twists and turns of family angst defiant love ......
