'No Salami Fairy Bread is an invitation to open each page of a new life full of uncertainty and tenacity due to her family's decision to leave Argentina. Copello writes from her eyes and heart as an immigrant woman who came to live in Australia "Free land for those who are willing to work it'. Reading her poems the strong voice of a ......
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 ......
This book describes highlights and the occasional lowlight of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica America South Africa France and England - with a witty mind and a cross-cultural vision of the world. This is a personal memoir delighting in the inconsistencies of ......
'It was the prevailing attitude in the 1960s that women had no history. There were no women's studies nothing.' - Judy Chicago creator of the iconic art installation The Dinner Party 2017
'The Dinner Party by the talented poet Colleen Keating brings to light through beautiful lyrical poetry what for centuries has ......
These poems are about time and memory. Many of them focus on the particular moments of experience that our memories are able to capture and preserve a process of considerable mystery. In this his first full-length collection Graham Wood considers some of the mysteries involved in time and memory. He does this obliquely in a glancing way ......
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 ......
Cancer is a disease with a persona of mystery often referred to through the use of negative metaphors such as alien evil and foreign while its medical treatment and recovery phases are described with warfare metaphors and sadly when death is the end result one is said to have lost their battle with cancer. However Cameron in this debut ......
My love for the water of the sea of river bay and ocean from childhood to now its call is strong and I yearn to be close to the flow of tides. In Aquamarine include poems on the tragedy of refugees who came to us by boat seeking refuge. There are poems about convicts and slaves floods and climate change. It is a collection ......
'Bill Wootton's poems are kites flown in the sky of our daily lives - hold on to them go with them.' - Ross Gillett
'Bill Wootton is an empathetic poet with a clear and focused voice. His finely detailed and artfully compressed narrative poems are like mini-novels or movies. His work is accessible yet deep infused with ......
