'These poems about friendship and belonging - I've had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I've known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to speak of silences and centres - and of breathing and heartbeats the odd fact that one keeps growing older - and of country and time and how to listen ......
These poems have been a lifetime in the making. A lifetime filled with love joy work longing and loss. A lifetime that came to an end too soon in between the writing and publishing of this work. So these poems tell John Harper's story from birth to death and everything in between.
Most of us have packed a suitcase or a small bag to go on a journey somewhere... But to pack a suitcase for the last journey of all? The hand luggage crammed full or almost empty with which to arrive in heaven? Angela Pritchard's childhood is in post-war London and later she trains as a nurse in one of the big teaching hospitals there. After ......
David Brelsford emigrated aged 22 and fell in love with Australia straightaway. ‘The only regret I have about coming here ’ he says ‘is that I didn’t come earlier.’ He took up long distance running in his fifties and has undertaken charity runs to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease research. He lives in ......
Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788 and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience evoking the northern hemisphere through his knowledge of Ireland and setting it against the reality of modern Australia thereby highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two ......
‘Between Two Moons is a delightful gift by Judith E.P. Johnson from Tasmania an island far in the south. The scenes she captures with her warm-hearted and observant eyes in her daily life and also in nature are quite charming and agreeable. This collection will be my favourite for a long time.’ - Satoru Kanematsu ......
Gwen Bitti born with a facial caul in Calcutta India migrates to Australia with her family when she is sixteen. She returns to her birth land for a visit some years later. On her arrival she is jolted into a new perspective and with fresh insight sets off on a quest. The motif of her enigmatic caul is woven throughout her memoir as she ......
The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo) and in Dubrovnik – each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region beyond the historical conflict of Kosovo’s ‘Blackbird Field’ so poems are grouped in line with sunset evening or night falling ......
As the title suggests this collection of short stories focuses on a variety of unusual but not atypical emotional and life-style reactions people experience as a result of guilt compassion indiscretion abuse jealousy fantasy loss sense of mission and impending death. It provides insight into the strange nature of what it means to be ......
