The coastal town is not named, nor is 'the boy' about whom and by whom this story of 1950's and 1960's rural Australia is written. Much of the narrative revolves around fishing waters, fresh and salt in Victoria's Western District. More than that, it is a journey from birth to hormones-haywire, mid-teens of a lad blessed with good health and ......
In this beguiling collection of short stories Larry Boyd offers extraordinary insight into the human psyche and the many ways that we experience love and loss.
Deceptively simple at times each of the 16 vignettes reveals the intensity of the joy and sadness in the lives of ordinary people. Whether the young couple debating ......
'Pam Schindler's say a river proves the best poems don't have to shout. There is so much light in the brushstrokes of this painterly collection in which Schindler washes private moments of grief and intimacy onto nature's liminal spaces. These are compact poems "spinning into [their] own weather"; they are "thin moon[s] cradling the ......
In language at once robust and delicate, surgical and knockabout, Isle Full of Noises pries open the cracks of life in search of its guts: the blandishments of sex, art, alcohol; excitement, disappointment; the noises of wisdom as its drags itself up to the surface. From squib to disquisition, ekphrasis to historical recreation, the collection ......
Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry with an invitation to hear each poem as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love - cyclic like the seasons.
Cultivating a haiku way of looking at the world opens the door to perceptions that would otherwise almost certainly go unheeded and unrecognised, sometimes fleeting, sometimes deep.
The poems in Chords in the Soundscapes are largely autobiographical in that they capture and distil Michael J. Leachs formative memories from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
In 'Harbour in Me' acclaimed poet Thérèse Corfiatis lays bare her hopes and dreams. So fine-tuned with nature are the peregrinations of these poems that they become an arboreal odyssey travelling the highways and byways of the author's island state of Tasmania. Juxtaposed against this sensory immersion is the painful truth that the world we long ......
After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting mysteries solved and ......
