In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense ......
Decima Wraxall’s poems mirror moods of the natural world and humanity in a rich diversity of themes and settings. Visit the magnificent and sacred monolith of Uluru in Central Australia share its secrets. In Peru fly over the Nazca Lines ponder on the huge icons of a lost civilisation. Savour moving paeans paying tribute to the ......
"Whimsy and from the heart Libby Goodsir’s words reflect what is to be human and to be a mother. Madeleine’s images perfectly counterpoint Libby’s words adding a thousand new dimensions to the meditation. What a gift!" - Chris Gallagher
It's a hot Australian summer and eleven-year-old Bridie is on holiday with her family at her Aunt and Uncle's dairy farm on the south coast. The farm is a haven for Bridie who revels in the lushness of the green paddocks dotted with Friesian cows and the tang of the ocean breezes that float over the hill. But this summer Bridie's idyllic ......
Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection written over a twenty-five-year period speaks about the perplexity of simple things: love death longing friendship hope. Its voice is human fallible incomplete. It's about the journey and the dreaming; it's about lives as ......
Bodyline Casualty - the Bert Oldfield Story will explore previously unknown details of his war service, his part in the Bodyline series, his role in the development of women’s cricket, his kind gesture to England captain Douglas Jardine, his testy relationship with Don Bradman and friendship with former combatant England fast bowler Harold Larwood.
From the Eyre Highway to the tiled lanes of Lisbon and the muted Australian suburbs at the beginning of a pandemic Bone Picker presents vignettes of place and memory that draw on senses of belonging movement and conflict. These imagistic glimpses into everyday life and work highlight the beauty and intrigue in the ......
In Bookends his third book of short stories the man who wrote The Complete and Utter Truth about the World and Everything In It and Where the Hell is Heaven? once again paints life and death love and betrayal honesty and deception. Mostly he portrays people and their relationships and at times his dark sense of ......
'Borrowed Riches is an apt title for this fine collection of 100 short lyrics composed by an experienced and skilful poet. With her deft usage of the traditional Japanese tanka form Julie Thorndyke presents to the reader a range of thoroughly modern yet universal emotions expressed in poetry. The centrality of family human ......
