'Journal entries poems fragments meditations. Allusions to and critical engagement with philosophers and writers - Chinese European and Australian - this is what makes Ouyang Yu's Thought is Free a thinker's work not a "thoughter's" who only has thoughts. Delightfully readable!' - Professor Prem Poddar Vice-Chancellor of ......
'It struck me at some point when reading Maurice Whelan's Thought: The Invisible Essence that thinking a bit like reading writing and dreaming is not framed often enough as conversation. As readers when we're lucky we enter into dialogue with the writer and when fruitful the conversation continues long after the book is ......
Hay New South Wales 1923. Martha a classics scholar from the coast comes to teach in a man’s town in the outback. She falls in love with Henry a local man and they find their dream place on the river where they raise a family and breed a flock of sheep with fine wool. The unforgiving climate erodes their dreams. When Henry leaves ......
'If humankind is to save Earth from environmental disaster we need poets like Robyn Cairns to bring our attention back to nature - to show us how to look with ......
A woman sets out to walk the Camino the ancient pilgrimage across the north of Spain. No longer young she walks alone leaving family and friends behind. But she also carries them with her in the messages they've written on her stick. Each day she walks and each day she reads the messages and muses on them. These are her musings on the places ......
It's 1974. Joanna's and Peter's dream is to turn a remote neglected property on the wild west coast of Tasmania into a thriving cattle enterprise. Having grown up as a sheltered only child Joanna had leaped out of the nest at twenty seeking adventure. While Papua New Guinea South America and Europe offered easy adventure she gets more than ......
‘This day we were going to let the horses go. They’d been working for a while and it was their turn to have a spell. Old Alf Turner came down there watching the blokes tying their horses’ legs up. And he seen me get my horse and bring him up – just drop the reins on the ground and the horse waiting down there while I ......
'This suite of poems was written under the constraints of a pandemic Covid-19 in 2020. It is a chronicle of lockdown first in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales then during stage four restrictions in Melbourne Victoria. It is the poetic response of one person Michele to the hours days nights and months spent mainly ......
A long while ago I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then when I turned seventy I joined the Red Hat Society founded in the USA in 1997 as ‘the place where there is fun over fifty’. This ......
